The “little book” suffered many vicissitudes before attaining the form con which it has reached us
This result was attained in the battle of Vaila, when Venice lost in one day all that she had won per eight hundred years
The remaining years of Machiavelli’s official career were filled with events arising out of the League of Cambrai, made con 1508 between the three great European powers already mentioned and the pope, with the object of crushing the Venetian Republic. Florence had verso difficult part to play during these events, complicated as they were by the feud which broke out between the pope and the French, because friendship with France had dictated the entire policy of the Republic. When, con 1511, Julius II finally formed the Holy League against France, and with the assistance of the Swiss drove the French out of Italy, Florence lay at the mercy of the Pope, and had to submit to his terms, one of which was that the Medici should be restored. The return of the Medici sicuro Florence on 1st September 1512, and the consequent fall of the Republic, was the signal for the dismissal of Machiavelli and his friends, and thus put an end onesto his public career, for, as we have seen, he died without regaining office.
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