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Rancho Nicasio was a Mexican land grant of 56,807 acres (230 km 2) granted to the Coast Miwok indigenous people in 1835, located in the present-day Marin County, California, a tract of land that stretched from San Geronimo to Tomales Bay. [1] Today, Nicasio, California is at the heart of this location. [2] [3]
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]
The Machiavellian Moment is a work of intellectual history by J. G. A. Pocock (Princeton University Press, 1975).It posits a connection between republican thought in early 16th century Florence, English-Civil War Britain, and the American Revolution.
Machiavelli, after all, lived at a similar inflection point in history. Florence, one of the great Renaissance republics, was being transformed into a monarchy even at the moment he was writing.
Statue of Machiavelli at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. This timeline lists important events relevant to the life of the Italian diplomat, writer and political philosopher Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469–1527). Machiavelli was born in Florence in 1469 of an old citizen family. Little is known about his life until 1498, when he was appointed secretary and second chancellor ...
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) was secretary to the second chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power. Machiavelli lived in this house when he was exiled from Florence when the Medici came back in power in 1512.
Machiavelli, Niccolò (1958), "The Life of Castrucio Castracani of Lucca", Machiavelli:The Chief Works and Others, vol. 2, pp. 533–559. Translated by Alan Gilbert; Strauss, Leo (1958), Thoughts on Machiavelli, University of Chicago Press "Full Text of the Life of Castruccio Castracani", Bibliotheca Philosophica (in Italian)
Part of the county's territory went to Del Norte County in 1857, and in 1874 the remainder was divided between Humboldt and Siskiyou counties. Pautah County, California was created in 1852 out of territory which, the state of California assumed, was to be ceded to it by the United States Congress from territory in what is now the state of Nevada.