It is 550 years since Niccolo Machiavelli was born in Florence in 1469 of a very old Tuscan family. Three years later, this force was defeated by the Holy League at Prato and the Medici returned to power in Florence. Machiavelli was almost immediately excluded from public life as a previous...
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity. —Niccolo Machiavelli 15 Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to p...