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  2. Niccolò Machiavelli - Wikipedia

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    Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli [a] (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine [4] [5] diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince (Il Principe), written around 1513 but not published until 1532, five years after his death. [6]

  3. The Mandrake - Wikipedia

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    The Mandrake (Italian: La Mandragola [la manˈdraːɡola]) is a satirical play by Italian Renaissance philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli.Although the five-act comedy was published in 1524 and first performed in the carnival season of 1526, Machiavelli likely wrote The Mandrake in 1518 as a distraction from his bitterness at having been excluded from the diplomatic and political life of Florence ...

  4. The Prince - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. The Art of War (Machiavelli book) - Wikipedia

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    The Art of War is divided into a preface (proemio) and seven books (chapters), which take the form of a series of dialogues that take place in the Orti Oricellari, the gardens built in a classical style by Bernardo Rucellai in the 1490s for Florentine aristocrats and humanists to engage in discussion, between Cosimo Rucellai and "Lord Fabrizio Colonna" (many feel Colonna is a veiled disguise ...

  6. Discourses on Livy - Wikipedia

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    ' Discourses on the First Ten of Titus Livy ') is a work of political history and philosophy written in the early 16th century (c. 1517) by the Italian writer and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli, best known as the author of The Prince.

  7. List of last words - Wikipedia

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    "Old though he be, he is the best of all." [8] [note 21] ... — Niccolò Machiavelli (21 June 1527), Italian Renaissance diplomat, philosopher and writer

  8. Thoughts on Machiavelli - Wikipedia

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    Thoughts on Machiavelli is a book by Leo Strauss first published in 1958. The book is a collection of lectures he gave at the University of Chicago in which he dissects the work of Niccolò Machiavelli. The book contains commentary on Machiavelli's The Prince and the Discourses on Livy. [1]

  9. Florentine Histories - Wikipedia

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    Scipione Ammirato, was highly critical of Machiavelli's Florentine Histories; he said that Machiavelli «altered names, twisted facts, confounded cases, increased, added, subtracted, diminished and did anything that suited his fancy without checking, without lawful restraint and what is more, he seems to have done so occasionally on purpose!» [2]