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[3] [4] There was also a combined edition, with Voltaire's emendations as footnotes. [citation needed] Frederick sent Francesco Algarotti to London to take care of the publication of Anti-Machiavel in English. In the meantime, Frederick had become king, and his authorship — which was a very open secret — made the book an instant success and ...
Discourses on Livy at Project Gutenberg (in English) Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius public domain audiobook at LibriVox "Full Text of the Discourses", Bibliotheca Philosophica (in Italian) Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio at the Internet Archive. 1: (in Italian). Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio at the ...
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Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan. The German inventor decided to make the most of ...
Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan. The German inventor decided to make the most of his new technology — the movable-type printing press — by producing an unprecedented version of the Scripture for wealthy customers who could ...
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Michael Stern Hart (March 8, 1947 – September 6, 2011) [1] was an American author, best known as the inventor of the e-book and the founder of Project Gutenberg (PG), the first project to make e-books freely available via the Internet.
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe [il ˈprintʃipe]; Latin: De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise written by the Italian diplomat, philosopher, and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli in the form of a realistic instruction guide for new princes.