Question

An embellished account by this historian claims that when a noblewoman's enemies threatened to kill her children, she raised her skirt and said, "I have the tools (20[1])to make more." This historian claimed (20[1])that Agathocles of Syracuse's excessive brutality kept him from achieving glory. (20[1])After the republic he worked for was overthrown, this historian was placed under house (20[1])arrest and wrote a treatise dedicated to his new ruler. This author's commentary on (*) Ab Urbe (10[1]0[1])Condita (10[1])defends republican government, (0[1])contrary to a work of his (0[1])that compares fortune to a woman who must be beaten and praises (10[1])Cesare (10[1])Borgia ("CHAY-za-ray BORE-ja"). For 10 points, (10[1])name this Florentine historian (10[1])who wrote "it is much safer to be feared than loved" in The Prince. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Niccolò Machiavelli (The first clue refers to a story about Caterina Sforza included in the Discourses on Livy and Florentine Histories.)
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