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Machiavelli's first surge in readership came from people trying to refute Hobbes, not from anybody who agreed with him.

Drawn from what Ada Palmer said

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  1. 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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