Explain the historical circumstances that led to the development of Machiavelli's ideas.

Machiavelli's desperately wanted to go to politics again, but he joined intellectual groups and started to study different books and writing instead. One of the main goal of writing The Prince was to win the favor of Lorenzo de' Medici and after the governor of the Florence by sharing his political views in The Prince, to get chance to involved again in politics and hired on any designation.