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Chapter IX · CONCERNING A CIVIL PRINCIPALITY
Messer Giorgio Scali. This event is to be found in Machiavelli’s “Florentine History,” Book III.
…en he is oppressed by his enemies or by the magistrates; wherein he would find himself very often deceived, as happened to the Gracchi in Rome and to Messer Giorgio Scali[2] in Florence. But granted a prince who has established himself as above, who can command, and is a man of courage, undismayed in adversity, who does not fail in other qualifications, and who, by his resolution and energy, keeps the whole people encouraged—s…
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