Practically nothing is known of Nicolo Machiavelli before he became a minor official in the Florentine Government. His youth, however, was passed during some of the most tumultuous years in the history of Florence. He was born the year that Lorenzo the Magnificent came to power, subverting the traditional civil liberties of Florence while inaugurating a reign of unrivaled luxury and of great brilliance for the arts. He was twenty-five at the time of Savonarola’…showed first 75 words of 2880 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2880 total…identity this allows, force us to eventually tear apart these artificial binds with one another? Or have we reached the turning point in our discovery that human life, regardless of the differences seen by the eye, will be the defining characteristic, and the artificiality of nationalism and borders will fade into the history as feudalism and the pre-Copernicus understanding of the solar system? Will Machiavelli be proved timeless, or time spent? References and cited works: