Episode #94- How Machiavellian was Machiavelli? (Part I)

Our Fake History by Sebastian Major

Sep 11, 201955:34Society & Culture

There are few political thinkers with as evil a reputation as the Florentine writer Niccolo Machiavelli. Machiavelli's philosophy was believed to be so cutthroat and cynically ruthless that some thought it was demonicall...

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