POLI 231 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Extraordinary Measures, Petrarch, Heredity
11 Apr 2017
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Machiavelli fled, served as a civil servant, organization of a militia to florence"s government. Machiavelli aspires to the creation of order: term ordini, meaning these constitutional provision and institutional arrangements that make stable governments possible, runs as a recurring refrain through the discourse. All forms of government continue to have authority over men, are either republics or principalities, ether hereditary or are new. Much easier to hold on to heredity states which are accustomed to being governed by the family, than to hold on to new acquisitions. It is in the nature of things that as soon as a foreign power enters into a region, all the local states that are weak rally to it for they are driven by envy. King louis was bought into italy by the ambition of venetians, who hoped to gain half of the territory of lombardy as a result of his invasion.
