It tells how to gain, maintain, and centralize power. He achieved some fame as a historian and playwright, but with The Prince he hoped to regain political favor. Machiavelli found himself unemployed after years of patriotic service, and spent most of his remaining years in producing his major works. He was suspected of plotting against the Medici, jailed, even tortured, and exiled. Lorenzo de' Medici fired Machiavelli who had held the office of Secretary under the previous government. The Medici family had returned to power and had ended the Florentine Republic. His important writings were composed after 1512 when he was accused of conspiracy in 1513. As a thinker Machiavelli belonged to an entire school of Florentine intellectuals concerned with an examination of political and historical problems.
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