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  2. Machiavelli in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Television dramas centring on the early Renaissance have also made use of Machiavelli to underscore his influence in early modern political philosophy. Machiavelli has been featured as a supporting character in The Tudors (2007–2010), [13] [14] Borgia (2011–2014) and The Borgias (2011–2013), [15] and the 1981 BBC mini series The Borgias.

  3. Machiavellianism (politics) - Wikipedia

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    Machiavellianism (or Machiavellism) is widely defined as the political philosophy of the Italian Renaissance diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli, usually associated with realism in foreign and domestic politics, and with the view that those who lead governments must prioritize the stability of the regime over ethical concerns.

  4. 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]

  5. 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 ]

  6. The Prince - Wikipedia

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    Machiavelli compares fortune to a torrential river that cannot be easily controlled during flooding season. In periods of calm, however, people can erect dams and levees in order to minimize its impact. Fortune, Machiavelli argues, seems to strike at the places where no resistance is offered, as had recently been the case in Italy.

  7. Italian Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), the author of The Prince and prototypical Renaissance man. Detail from a portrait by Santi di Tito . With the printing of books initiated in Venice by Aldus Manutius , an increasing number of works began to be published in the Italian language in addition to the flood of Latin and Greek texts that constituted ...

  8. Florentine military reforms - Wikipedia

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    Each man was issued a weapon – a spear and a body harness – that was a uniform in the Florentine fashion. [4] [2] This was entirely consistent with Machiavelli's later beliefs on the subject of native strength. [4]

  9. Timeline of Niccolò Machiavelli - Wikipedia

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    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 ...