Who both inflated the Florentine Republic and was born on May 3, 1496?
Florentine military reforms: The military reforms of the Florentine Republic were initiated by Florentine politician and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli during the short-lived Republic of Florence that lasted from 1498 to 1512 under the priest Girolamo Savonarola. Niccolò Machiavelli: Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (] ; 3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer of the Renaissance period.
Niccolò Machiavelli