And He Who Becomes Master Of A City Accustomed To Freedom And Does Not Destroy It, May Expect To Be Destroyed By It, For In Rebellion It Has Always The Watchword Of Liberty And Its Ancient Privileges As A Rallying Point, Which Neither Time Nor Benefits Will Ever Cause It To Forget. And Whatever You May Do Or Provide Against, They Never Forget That Name Or Their Privileges Unless They Are Disunited Or Dispersed, But At Every Chance They Immediately Rally To Them, As Pisa After The Hundred Years She Had Been Held In Bondage By The Florentines. –The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli Why Does Machiavelli Mention Pisa At The End Of The Passage? To Acknowledge That Liberty Will Always Triumph In The End To Demonstrate That Pisa Was Patient In Waiting To Rebel To Prove That Cities That Are Not Destroyed Will Eventually Rebel To Show That Florence Successfully Held Pisa For A Hundred Years. He says that if a ruler doesn't destroy it, the city may rebel against. In this excerpt from machiavelli's the prince, the author discusses the challenges of governing a city that has a strong sense of liberty and historical privileges, using pisa as a key example.
And what ever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as. He says that if a ruler doesn't destroy it, the city may rebel against. In this excerpt from machiavelli's the prince, the author discusses the challenges of governing a city that has a strong sense of liberty and historical privileges, using pisa as a key example.
