Niccolò Machiavelli as Machiavelli had himself done, despite also explaining how they could sometimes work). This became the theme of much future political discourse in Europe during the 17th century. This includes the Catholic Counter Reformation writers summarised by Bireley: Giovanni Botero, Justus Lipsius, Carlo Scribani, Adam Contzen, Pedro de Ribadeneira, and Diego Saavedra Fajardo. These authors criticized Machiavelli, but also followed him in many ways. They accepted the need for a prince to be concerned with reputation, and even a need for cunning and deceit, but compared to Machiavelli, and like later modernist writers, they emphasized economic progress much more than
Timeline of Niccolò Machiavelli the First Decade of Livy"; "The Art of War" and the comedy, "Mandragola", a satire on seduction. In 1520, Cardinal Giulio de' Medici (later Pope Clement VII, 1523) secured him a commission to write a history of Florence, which he finished in 1525. After a brief return to public life, he died in 1527. "(Dates in square brackets are conjectural)" 1469 1471 1481 1484 1491 1492 1494 1498 1499 1500 1501 1502 1503 1504 1506 1507 1508 1509 1510 1511 1512 [After April 1512] [After April 1512 and before August 1513] 1513 [1514 or later] 1513 [1515–1520] Circa 1516 [1517