What Did Machiavelli Learn From the Collapse of the Florentine Republic? - The Machinery of Liberty and the Medici Capture of Florence | Sleepy Facts About History

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Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In the winter of 1494, the leather lottery bags were brought out again in Florence. The republic's elaborate machinery of rotating offices, public drawings, and guild representation was restored after sixty years of Medici dominance. Yet for those six decades, the Medici had ruled the city without ever formally abolishing a single republican institution. They captured the machinery of liberty without dismantling it, learning to control the scrutiny lists and election purses from the inside. This episode...