1 FL 74 (Principal Procedure Code and Date) is used to report a principal procedure on an inpatient claim. 2  It is usually a surgical procedure and is the procedure most closely related to the principal diagnosis.
Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469-1527 The father of modern political theory, Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, was born at Florence, May 3, 1469, saw the troubles of the French invasion (1493), when the Medici fled, and in 1498 became secretary of the Ten, a post he held until the fall of the republic in 1512.
He also wrote an influential work on the merits of republicanism, known as the Discourses on Livy. Machiavelli grew up in the Italian city-state of Florence, which had been ruled by the Medici family for 60 years. In 1494, the Medicis were expelled from Florence and the city was instead set up as a republic. Machiavelli had been raised with a humanistic education and was an excellent writer and speaker. He was selected to be the Second Chancellor of Florence, and successfully led a militia of civilian-soldiers to victory over Pisa in 1509.