From then onward, he was never able to regain the influence he had had before.
He found himself imprisoned and perhaps even tortured by the authorities. With the powerful Medici family back at the helm in Florence around 1512, Machiavelli’s power dwindled drastically. Following the demise of the Girolamo Savonarola government in 1498, he rose to acclaim and established himself as a very important statesman for almost a decade and half in Florence, Italy. Most known for his two groundbreaking political works and treatises the Discourses on Livy (1531) and The Prince (1532), Niccolò Machiavelli was a renowned Italian political philosopher, historian and author who lived in the Florentine Republic of the Renaissance era. Niccolò Machiavelli – biography and achievements
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