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Unmaking Machiavelli’s Modernity
English cardinal Reginald Pole claimed in his Apologia ad Carolum Quintum that Thomas Cromwell told him in 1529 that Machiavelli’s The Prince inspired King Henry VIII to break with Rome.
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