During the Renaissance, all that had came from the middle ages had started to change, they wanted new things. This opened up change for art, stance on religion and many more changes that the Renaissance needed. Except some things just can’t be replaced, which is a strong leadership so he can lead his people or country to victory no matter the task. Lorenzo de Medici, however, was not that man. He relied on kindness and intelligence to lead his people, which was not always the right choice. Machiavelli noticed this and offord to teach him how to lead correctly, writing what he called, The Prince. Machiavelli was a unknown genius at his time. He was supposedly falsely accused of his name being linked with a conspiracy to overthrow the Medici. He was imprisoned, tortured, and released to house arrest in the same day. To try and regain the trust of the Medici’s, Machiavelli wrote The Prince. Medici was not a good ruler, he was too easy on this people and he didn’t do most of the things that Machiavelli considered that a good leader must do. A big part of the book was it is better to be feared than loved, but Medici was more widely loved than feared. Medici was one of the nicer people in his …show more content…
There are famous ones too, like how a great leader has to be tricky like a fox but also strong like a lion, Medici was more like a fox in this case. Medici would trick people or persuade people into agreeing with him or by making peace by persuading them. He did this once to save his country, and it is referred to as the Pazzi conspiracy. The Pazzi conspiracy happened because the Pope Sixtus and King of Naples declared war against Florence, so he went to Naples, practically letting the king kill him if he wanted, and persuaded him into giving them peace so the Pope agreed even though he wasn’t so happy about it. Medici had some quality traits but not the strong ones that Machiavelli would want him to