... the Romagna and in 1503, he accompanied Julius II on his first campaign of conquest. In 1512, and after it was defeated by the Holy League at Prato, Machiavelli was excluded from public life. After suffering from imprisonment, he retired with his wife and kids to San Casciano, and he gave his for study and writing. It was there that he wrote The Prince, the Discourses on the First Decade of Livy, the Art of War, and the comedy Mandragola. The main problem in Machiavelli's Italy was security. There were numerous weak states and the conflicts between them were frequent. However, the biggest problem was foreign invasion together with the lack of leadership. Machiavelli with his book The Prince troubled his readers of his period not because he advised the prince to use force and fraud in order to secure his principality and position, but because of his refusal to ...

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