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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Niccolò Machiavelli served as secretary to Florence's second chancery from 1498 to 1512, handling diplomatic and military affairs while the Medici were out of power. When the Medici retook Florence in 1512, he was expelled from office, mistakenly suspected of treason, and sent into exile. A year later he turned to writing. Around 1513 he drafted The Prince, a treatise advising that successful rulers must engage in unsavory acts — even killing political enemies — when political necessity requires it, a break from classical thought that made his work controversial from the moment it was published in 1532, five years after his death. His Discourses on Livy, composed around 1517, took a different tack and helped pave the way for modern republicanism, influencing Enlightenment thinkers like Rousseau. Scholars still argue over whether he was describing reality or teaching tyranny.