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Machiavelli's first surge in readership came from people trying to refute Hobbes, not from anybody who agreed with him.
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- Ada Palmer Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas
And so Machiavelli is suddenly useful not to people who sympathize with him but to people who see him as an enemy.
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Watch from 1:33:07 plays here↗Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmeryoutube.com
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