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TIL Florentine politician and Machiavelli's friend Francesco Guicciardini served 3 popes over 20 years, ending up as the 2nd most powerful man in the papal states. Privately, he hated the catholic church and confided that the only reason he wasn't a Lutheran, was pure self interest

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