Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote his treatise The Prince at his home here, the Albergaccio, where he lived when in exile. A small museum is dedicated to the great writer; the villa, now Villa Bossi-Pucci stands close by the Hostel where Machiavelli used to "let off steam". Nearby is the thirteenth-century church of San Bartolomeo in Faltignano.
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]
House of Machiavelli The commemorative plaque. The house of Machiavelli (Italian: Casa di Machiavelli), also referred to as L'Albergaccio (Italian: [lalberˈɡattʃo], literally "The Bad Hotel"), was the place where Niccolò Machiavelli lived during his exile from Florence. [1]
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.
9429-9441 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California, 90210 Coordinates 34°04′02″N 118°23′56″W / 34.06729°N 118.39875°W / 34.06729; -118
Mera Joan Flaumenhaft (née Oxenhorn, April 28, 1945 - December 30, 2018 [1]) was an American academic and translator who taught at St. John's College, Annapolis MD. [2] Her translation of Niccolò Machiavelli's Mandragola is widely used in college courses throughout the country.
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 ...
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 ...