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Pages in category "Films based on works by Niccolò Machiavelli" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
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.
Films based on works by Niccolò Machiavelli (6 P) Pages in category "Adaptations of works by Niccolò Machiavelli" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Nicoletta Machiavelli (1 August 1944 – 15 November 2015) was an Italian film actress, also known as Nicoletta Rangoni Machiavelli and Nicoletta Macchiavelli. Life and career [ edit ]
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 ...
In English Renaissance theatre (Elizabethan and Jacobian), the term "Machiavel" (from 'Nicholas Machiavel', an "anglicization" of Machiavelli's name based on French) was used for a stock antagonist that resorted to ruthless means to gain and preserve royal authority, and is an archaic variant of the word "Machiavellian".
Machiavelli emphasizes that a ruler must be able to do evil, because to maintain political power you will have to overcome your enemies who are also wicked. Machiavelli uses the example of the ancient Greek tyrant Agathocles, who had the entire elite of Syracuse killed in order to seize control of the government. Machiavelli says that this is a ...
The action takes place over a period of 24 hours. The comedy’s main theme is the use of deceit and the interplay among the characters who think they are shrewder than the next. The opening prologue was written by Machiavelli and is read at the start of the film, just as it is in the play. The script is largely faithful to the original play.