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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 is the only political thinker whose name has come into common use for designating a kind of politics, which exists and will continue to exist independently of his influence, a politics guided exclusively by considerations of expediency, which uses all means, fair or foul, iron or poison, for achieving its ends – its end being the ...
El Fureidis (Arabic for "Little Paradise") is a 10,000-square-foot (930 m 2) historic estate built in 1906 on 10 acres (4.0 ha) in Montecito, California. [1] Originally called the James Waldron Gillespie Estate or Gillespie Palace [2] after its original owner, the Spanish Baroque & Neo-Mudéjar architecture [3] is one of only five houses designed by the American architect Bertram Grosvenor ...
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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Kern County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map. [1]
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 ...