he always had to work at the behest of some rich, stupid man that he had to court, like lorenzo de' medici or juliano de' medici. it irritated him that they treated him with such disdain. would get a kick out of who remembers -- not lorenzo the magnificent, many people remember him, but the lorenzo to whom he dedicated the book, nobody remembers him, except that machiavelli dedicated "the prince" to him and the fact that michelangelo built a wonderful tomb in his honor. host: did he ever get a job after he was run out of government? guest: not quite a job. he was sent on missions after a number of years of sort of being in the political wilderness, he got a number of assignments from giulio de' medici, who was more sort of a sympathetic figure. cardinal giulio de' medici becomes pope clement vii, and they're both fellow intellectuals. he has a mutual administration and he gets small assignments late in life. he he sort of gets back in the saddle again, fighting for florentine independence in a very difficult time. so he never really got a steady job, but sort of late in life he did manage

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