# Machiavelli is dismissed from the Florentine Second Chancery after the Medici restoration

Date: 1512

## The fact

On 7 November 1512 the restored Medici regime removed [Machiavelli](/people/niccolo-machiavelli) from the chancery he had held since 1498.

## Context

Office loss is not a massacre. It is a documented spoils-of-restoration act that ended his salaried public role.

Niccolò Machiavelli is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official or archival pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Archivio di Stato di Firenze (https://www.archiviodistato.firenze.it/; Archivio di Stato di Firenze).

## Significance

A purge of a secretary is a judicial-political capture path of medium weight.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is justice-[judicial-independence](/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion)-erosion. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Niccolo Machiavelli: https://factrail.ai/people/niccolo-machiavelli

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Niccolo-Machiavelli
- https://www.archiviodistato.firenze.it/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mc-dismissal-1512