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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]
Bernardo di Niccolò Machiavelli (between 1426 and 1429 – 1500) was a citizen of Florence and father to Niccolò Machiavelli. Although he was a Doctor of Law (hence, his title of Messer ), debts inherited from his father and uncles limiting his career prevented him from joining the legal guild.
Niccolò Machiavelli met the Duke on a diplomatic mission in his function as Secretary of the Florentine Chancellery. Machiavelli was at Borgia's court from 7 October 1502 through 18 January 1503. During this time he wrote regular dispatches to his superiors in Florence, many of which have survived and are published in Machiavelli's Collected ...
Niccolò Machiavelli eventually also came to the conclusion that Cesare Borgia was the perpetrator. [Note 4] [37] Persons exonerated by the pope: Giovanni Sforza, the Lord of Pesaro. Giovanni Sforza, the Lord of Pesaro was a condottiero and the husband of Lucrezia Borgia. The marriage was no longer useful for the Borgias politically and Sforza ...
Machiavelli believed that Caterina had tried to poison the Pope, [61] while other historians, such as Jacob Burckhardt and Ferdinand Gregorovius, are not certain. [62] An inconclusive and unfinished trial took place, and Caterina remained imprisoned until 30 June 1501, when she was released by Yves d'Allègre, who had come to Rome with the army ...
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 ...
Clizia is a comedy by the Italian Renaissance political scientist and writer Niccolò Machiavelli, written in 1525. [1] The work is based upon a classical play by Plautus , [ 2 ] called Casina . Plot
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]