Tacitismo machiavelli biography

Niccolò Machiavelli was born in Florence on May 3, 1469, to Bernardo and Bartolomea. Though the family had formerly enjoyed prestige and financial success, in Niccolò’s youth his father struggled with debt.

Tacitismo machiavelli biography

Nevertheless, his father was actively interested in education and provided young Niccolò with access to books.

The world of Machiavelli’s youth was one of great ferment in matters political, intellectual, and ecclesiastical.

Florence was among the many Italian city-republics frequently contested by the larger political powers of the day—the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire, along with France and Spain. New editions and translations of classical Greek and Roman texts provided the material for the intellectual movement known as the Renaissance, which combined an interest in Christianity with a newfound curiosity about classical culture.

Meanwhile, although the Church had always been important politically in Europe, in Machiavelli’s time the Church’s involvement in worldly politics