Bacon admired this Italian author for writng about "what men do, and not what they ought to do"
In one place for example he noted his admiration for the selfless Roman 
...... Francis Bacon argued the case for what would become modern science 
which... [DOC] [TLE] Essays by William Cowper Brann-Machiavelli - 100 [PAR] Francis Bacon learned of Machiavelli, who "wrote what men do and not what they 
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