The fuck was his problem?

>>2887035
Idiots thinking his work was satirical.

Does anyone care enough to give me and other plebs a /quickrundown/?

TWISTED

FUCKING

>>2887241
Don't be afraid to dirty your hands when you need to.

>>2887241
Niccolò Machiavelli?
Founder of modern political science?
Famous for writing The Prince?
The book about glory and survival by ANY means necessary?
Writer/poet/humanist/politician/philosopher/diplomat/historian?

>The fuck was his problem?
You have to remember, he was from Italy during an era when it was a bunch of warring city-states. It was almost a "might makes right" situation. Less peace - so he condoned espionage, murder, assassination, and underhanded measures to ensure you stayed on top of your neighbors (whom wanted to kill you and "absorb all your assets")

>>2887262
But don't let the public catch you doing it

>>2887037
FPBP

>>2887035
>The fuck was his problem?


The political and religious rulers of his time, their traditional virtues and definitions of governance.

What?
I just read the prince, seemed perfectly normal and logical to me.

>>2887241
the prince isn't even 50 pages, go read it

the medici

>>2887301
this, what the fuck is this stupid meme shit, i come to /his/ to get away from it but its been absorbing this board lately.

>>2887595
We are full of sensitive snowflakes atm srry

>>2887035

Clergymen and ungrateful brats

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>>2887035
What about this book is particularly edgy?
I genuinely don't; get what was so scandalous about this shit. Anyone with common sense knows that you need to stamp on others to get ahead in life.

>>2888854
Umm sweaty, raising armies rather than employing mercenaries is so xenophobic that I can't even