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Renaissance historian Ada Palmer says Machiavelli buried Petrarch's plan after watching Cesare Borgia burn half the world.
For 100 years, Italy's elite had bet on one idea.
Read Cicero, become Cicero. Train your princes on the same books the great Romans read, and the great Romans would walk again. Petrarch had said so. His successors had filled the libraries. Princes had been raised on Plato and Brutus.
Then Cesare Borgia happened.
Machiavelli watched it from inside the Florentine government. He saw a virtuous prince do everything correctly — Latin, Greek, Plato — and lose his city anyway. He saw Cesare Borgia do everything wrong and win.
Machiavelli refused to give up on the classics.
He wrote about coming home in exile, getting dressed in his court robes, and entering his library to hold commerce with the ancients. He loved this the way Petrarch had wanted him to love it.
But the plan was broken.
So he proposed a different way to use the same books.
Use history as a casebook.
Don't read Cicero to become Cicero. Read history to identify what worked and what didn't. Five battles fought near rivers — what did the winning commanders do? Two cities under siege — which surrender terms saved more lives?
Stop hoping virtue rubs off through exposure. Study cause and effect.
This was the birth of political science.
Palmer, on what Machiavelli's contemporaries called him:
"Machiavelli is described by his contemporaries as a historian."
He was not popular in his own day. The osmosis plan kept running for decades. But the libraries were filling, the press had arrived, and one generation later, a man named Francis Bacon applied the same method to nature itself.
That is the road to science.
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— Ada Palmer ( @Ada_Palmer ), Renaissance historian at the University of Chicago, on Dwarkesh Patel's ( @dwarkesh_sp ) podcast
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