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Niccolò Machiavelli, oil on canvas by Santi di Tito; in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. (more) Whereas Bruni had written at the apex of Florentine power, Machiavelli’s public career was marked by the desperate situation created by what he called “the calamity”: the invasion of Italy first by the French in 1494 and later by the imperial ...
Niccolò Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine Renaissance man, statesman, and writer. He was a diplomat and government official in the Medici period of the Florentine Republic. [2] [3] Machiavelli is best known for writing about political philosophy. He also wrote poetry, plays, carnival songs, history books, military ...
1062 quotes from Niccolò Machiavelli: 'Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.', 'If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.', and 'The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.'.
尼古洛·迪·贝尔纳多·代·马基雅维利 （ 義大利語 ： Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli ， 義大利語發音： [nikkoˈlɔ mmakjaˈvɛlli] ；1469年5月3日—1527年6月21日）是 意大利 的 政治學家 、 哲學家 、 歷史學家 、 政治家 、 外交官 。. 他是意大利 文藝復興 时期的重要 ...
Niccolò Machiavelli was born in Florence on May 3, 1469, to Bernardo and Bartolomea. Though the family had formerly enjoyed prestige and financial success, in Niccolò’s youth his father struggled with debt. Nevertheless, his father was actively interested in education and provided young Niccolò with access to books.
Dec 7, 2009 · According to an ancient tradition that goes back to Aristotle, politics is a sub-branch of ethics—ethics being defined as the moral behavior of individuals, and politics being defined as the morality of individuals in social groups or organized communities. Machiavelli was the first theorist to decisively divorce politics from ethics, and ...
Introduction. (1469–1527). Italian political writer and statesman Niccolò Machiavelli was active during the Italian Renaissance. He wrote powerful, influential, and thoughtful prose. He was devoted to truth and to the freedom of Florence, the city he loved. Machiavelli’s two chief works are The Prince and Discourses on Livy.
