Reproof to Machiavelli

I sincerely love Niccolò Machiavelli, the first policy scientist, and I think lost also, because other are historical that had tools history but not policy, Niccolò is true historical political, but he had made some mistake also, and historical mistake, when he said that the Church made that Italy was disunited, but Italy after fall of Roman empire was always disunite, and the Church called strangers people for defense, because hasn’t owner army, and Italy by Middle age was conquered from much people, that was defeated by other people, that while was went in Italy; when Scipione Ammirato, an Italian historical of 16^th and 17^th, comments this opinion of Machiavelli and he said, around pope Julius II, who called Swisses for contrast to French in Pontifical State, then Machiavelli reproach the pope because has called stranger, but Ammirato answered: “Italy was government by Italian, Hispanic, (south Italy), he(pope), throwed French it wasn’t diminution or grow disunion of Italy?”, sorry but Ammirato was right, it is to throw stranger and not certainly increase it; and more over Machiavelli won’t consider that much stranger government with formal power, but alone formal, and that had divided Italy and Italian were Italian same; it is sufficient considerer that Machiavelli was Florentine, a region that in Italy is famous both for art and for disunion, wars among Tuscan city were daily, but in Tuscan the Church wasn’t while disunion yes, for example Pisa and Florence warred by 1480, and Machiavelli was lead of Florentine army again Pisa around 1512, but Florentine and Pisani were Italian. Machiavelli was pressed by a anticlericalism very strong, and he want saw the Church as wrong.

Alessandro Lusana

Rimprovero a Machiavelli

Sinceramente io amo Niccolò Machiavelli, il primo scienziato della politica, e credo anche l’ultimo, altri erano storici ma non politici, mentre Machiavelli resta un vero politico della storia, ma anche lui compì qualche errore, quando disse che la Chiesa voleva tenere disunita l’Italia, ma l’Italia dopo la caduta dell’impero romano fu sempre disunita, la Chiesa dovette chiamare gli stranieri per difendersi da eserciti nemici, perché non aveva eserciti propri, e inoltre l’Italia dal Medio Evo fu terra di conquista di molti popoli, sconfitti da altri popoli; quando Scipione Ammirato, uno storico italiani fra XVI e XVII secolo, commenta questa opinione dicendo, intorno a papa Giulio II, che chiamò gli svizzeri per cacciare i francesi dal regno pontificio, l’Ammirato risponde al Machiavelli: “L’Italia era governata da italiani e spagnoli(sud Italia), quindi il pappa che scaccia i francesi era elemento di disunione ovvero unione?”, spiacente ma l’Ammirato ha ragione, scacciare i francesi fu elemento di unione sebbene sia restato ancor oggi qualche guardia svizzera; Machiavelli non volle considerare che molti stranieri governavano l’Italia, con un potere formale, solo formale, e ciò che divideva l’Italia erano i soli Italiani; sia sufficiente considerare che Machiavelli era fiorentino, una regione nota per i capolavori d’arte e per lo spirito campanilistico, guerreggiava costantemente, ma in Toscana la Chiesa non c’era mentre vi era la disunione, ad esempio Pisa e Firenze guerreggiavano dal 1480 e fiorentini e pisani erano italiani, Machiavelli era sollecitato a questo giudizio anche da un anticlericalismo davvero profondo e vedeva spesso la Chiesa come il male.

Alessandro Lusana 

Machiavelli

Ammirato