Machiavelli's Accomplishments

Our beloved Niccolo was born May 3, 1469 in Florence, Republic of Florence and sadly after about 58 years of blissful joy our beloved died on either June 21, 1527 or May 22, 1527, as you know our documentation is very poor within our society. His poor family of his father, Bernardo di Niccolo Machiavelli, and mother, Bartolommea di Stefano, spouse Marietta Corsini, brother Totto Machiavelli, and sisters Margherita Machiavelli and Spring Machiavelli will miss him dearly. His children Piero Machiavelli, Primerana Machiavelli, Baccina Machiavelli, Bernardo Machiavelli, Lodovico Machiavelli, and Guido Machiavelli will also miss him dearly. Niccolo was a great Italian political and military theorist, civil servant, historian, playwright, and poet.

He was articulacy trained in humanistic studies even though he never learned Greek. During his fourteen years of tenure as second chancellor and secretary of the Ten of Liberty and Peace for the Florentine government he endured many lengthy diplomatic trips that took him to France, Switzerland, and Germany. These trips seem to have given ideas to his later works. However, he only received this position because of the Medici family exile. When the Medici family came back he was tortured, jailed, and banished from his political life. But during his exile he had time to study Roman history and to write The Prince, one of his greater successes. The theme of this work was about monarchal rule and how survival is man’s only chance to beat the power of fate. Another accomplishment was his employment in diplomatic services and as a historiographer from 1521-1525. He also wrote many other journals that affected many people, either positively or negatively. He was a very controversial writer. Niccolo wrote a lot about his political views and not a lot of people agreed with him. His greatest success however is having other people create a word to describe his views on politics. Niccolo created Machiavellianism. He also created a new style of writing called “Mirror of Princes” style. He was also considered to be the prototype of a modern empirical scientist because he built generalizations from experience and historical facts