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There are two instances of Niccolò Machiavelli in two chapters.
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Machiavelli’s writings, for example, were solid enough for the subject, yet were they …
Charles V, Philippe de Commines; and ’tis said that, in our times, Machiavelli is elsewhere still in repute; but the late Marshal Strozzi, who had …