What was the first name of Italian statesman and writer Machiavelli?
"Niccolò Machiavelli. The unusual title stems from a conceit found throughout the cover, although not in the tracks themselves, that this is actually an album by a group called ""Machiavelli and the Four Seasons"". The liner notes include an essay on the band's music, written with gushing praise. Track titles are also given, entirely revolving around the words ""I"", ""Love"", ""You"" and ""Baby"". A hidden track at the end of the actual album, entitled ""Phillip Glass's Arse"", is a melodic, a cappella harmonised song that gives a representation of what Machiavelli and the Four Seasons might actually sound like. TISM"
"Machiavellianism Machiavellianism is defined as the political theory of Niccolò Machiavelli, especially the view that any means can be used if it is necessary to maintain power. The word comes from the Italian Renaissance diplomat and writer Niccolò Machiavelli, born in 1469, who wrote ""Il Principe"" (""The Prince""), among other works. In modern psychology, Machiavellianism is also the name of one of the dark triad personalities, characterized by a duplicitous interpersonal style, a cynical disregard for morality, a lack of empathy, and a focus on self-interest and personal gain. After his exile from political life in 1512, Machiavelli took to"
"Bernardo di Niccolò Machiavelli Bernardo di Niccolò Machiavelli (between 1426 and 1429 – 1500) was a citizen of Florence and father to Niccolò Machiavelli. A Doctor of Law (hence, his title of ""Messer""), debts inherited from his father and uncles limited his career and prevented him from joining the legal guild. He is known independently for his diary or ""Libro di Ricordi"", chronicling the years 1474–1487. The pages, housed in the Biblioteca Riccardiana in Florence, serve as a valuable window into everyday life and culture during the time and provide the only reliable information on his famous son's early youth."
"being a statesman and political scientist, Machiavelli also translated classical works, and was a playwright (""Clizia"", ""Mandragola""), a poet (""Sonetti"", ""Canzoni"", ""Ottave"", ""Canti carnascialeschi""), and a novelist (""Belfagor arcidiavolo""). Some of his other work: ""Della Lingua"" (Italian for ""Of the Language"") (1514), a dialogue about Italy's language is normally attributed to Machiavelli. Machiavelli's literary executor, Giuliano de' Ricci, also reported having seen that Machiavelli, his grandfather, made a comedy in the style of Aristophanes which included living Florentines as characters, and to be titled ""Le Maschere"". It has been suggested that due to such things as this and his style"
"Machiavelli (board game) Machiavelli is a strategic board game created by S. Craig Taylor and James B. Wood, and released commercially in 1977 by Battleline Publications, later taken over in 1980 by Avalon Hill, who are currently owned by Hasbro. Set in Renaissance Italy, the board is controlled by the Republic of Florence, the Republic of Venice, the Duchy of Milan, the Kingdom of Naples, the Papacy, Valois France, Habsburg Austria, and the Ottoman Turks. The game shares most of the basic rules of its predecessor ""Diplomacy"", and introduces many new rules such as money, bribery, three seasons per year,"
"to achieve the required objectives. Oliver James identifies Machiavellianism as one of the dark triadic personality traits in the workplace, the others being narcissism and psychopathy. A new model of Machiavellianism based in organizational settings consists of three factors: The presence of Machiavellianism in an organisation has been positively correlated with counterproductive workplace behaviour and workplace deviance. Machiavellianism Machiavellianism is defined as the political theory of Niccolò Machiavelli, especially the view that any means can be used if it is necessary to maintain power. The word comes from the Italian Renaissance diplomat and writer Niccolò Machiavelli, born in 1469, who"
"produced thirteen Florentine Gonfalonieres of Justice, one of the offices of a group of nine citizens selected by drawing lots every two months and who formed the government, or Signoria; but he was never a full citizen of Florence because of the nature of Florentine citizenship in that time even under the republican regime. Machiavelli married Marietta Corsini in 1502. Machiavelli was born in a tumultuous era in which popes waged acquisitive wars against Italian city-states, and people and cities often fell from power as France, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire battled for regional influence and control. Political-military alliances"
"the absolute authority of the state. Machiavelli rejected all existing traditional and metaphysical assumptions of the time—especially those associated with the Middle Ages—and asserted as an Italian patriot that Italy needed a strong and all-powerful state led by a vigorous and ruthless leader who would conquer and unify Italy. Mussolini saw himself as a modern-day Machiavellian and wrote an introduction to his honorary doctoral thesis for the University of Bologna—""Prelude to Machiavelli"". Mussolini professed that Machiavelli's ""pessimism about human nature was eternal in its acuity. Individuals simply could not be relied on voluntarily to 'obey the law, pay their taxes"
"continually changed, featuring condottieri (mercenary leaders), who changed sides without warning, and the rise and fall of many short-lived governments. Machiavelli was taught grammar, rhetoric, and Latin. It is thought that he did not learn Greek even though Florence was at the time one of the centers of Greek scholarship in Europe. In 1494 Florence restored the republic, expelling the Medici family that had ruled Florence for some sixty years. Shortly after the execution of Savonarola, Machiavelli was appointed to an office of the second chancery, a medieval writing office that put Machiavelli in charge of the production of official"
"Loriano Macchiavelli Loriano Macchiavelli (born March 12, 1934) is an Italian mystery writer and playwright. Macchiavelli was born in Vergato, near Bologna. He worked also a theatre impresario, actor and playwright. As a writer, his most famous character is Sarti Antonio (surname written first), a Bolognese police detective, characterized by a strong morality but mediocre investigative capabilities; in his tales he is often helped by the sharper mind of Rosas, a smart university student. Sarti's stories have been turned into a television series in 1991, followed by an Italian-German co-production of six films, broadcast in April and May 1994. He"
"Machiavelli as a dramatist Niccolò Machiavelli started work with the Chancery in Florence at the age of 29, traveling on diplomatic missions around Europe. In the 14 years he served the Chancery, he met great statesmen and politicians, including Louis XII, Emperor Maximilian and Cesare Borgia, and gained great insight into the political workings of Europe. He gave Florentine generals successful military advice concerning tactics and organizing infantry forces. He even established a Florentine militia. When the Medici came back into power in 1512, Machiavelli was arrested, tortured and exiled from Florence. Machiavelli, having lost the one vocation he understood,"
"Ibn Zafar al Siqilli Ibn Zafar al Siqilli, (), or (), or Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad Ibn Abī Muḥammad Ibn Ẓafar al-Siqillī al-Makkī al-Mālikī (are among the several variants), was a philosopher, polymath and Arab-Sicilian politician of the Norman period (1104 - 1170), and has come to be known in the West as ""Niccolò Machiavelli's Arab Precursor"". Ibn Ẓafar was said to be physically small and frail. His demonym 'al-Siqillī' indicates he was born in Sicily, but the patronym 'al-Makkī' suggests his family origins were in Mecca, where he is believed to have been raised and educated. Nicknamed 'The Wanderer',"
"was also the protagonist of a comics series published in the Italian magazine ""Orient Express"". More recently, Macchiavelli has written a series of detective novels in collaboration with singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini having a Carabinieri ""maresciallo"", Benedetto Santovito, as the protagonist. Machiavelli's books have been published in France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union, Japan, Romania and other countries. Loriano Macchiavelli Loriano Macchiavelli (born March 12, 1934) is an Italian mystery writer and playwright. Macchiavelli was born in Vergato, near Bologna. He worked also a theatre impresario, actor and playwright. As a writer, his most famous character is Sarti Antonio"
"origin. Machiavelli is primarily known for his political discourses such as ""The Prince"" and ""The Art of War"", but he was also a middle-ranking official of the Florentine Republic. His position allowed him access to prominent officials and assemblies, and the opportunity to persuade them to implement his reforms. First of all, the Florentine Republic was divided into a series of districts. The purpose of this being to have government officials travel through each district and point out men of suitable bodily strength in order that they may serve. Each man was issued a weapon – a spear and a"
"power. He wrote his most well-known work ""The Prince"" (""Il Principe"") in 1513, having been exiled from city affairs. ""Machiavellianism"" is widely used as a negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli described most famously in ""The Prince."" Machiavelli described immoral behavior, such as dishonesty and the killing of innocents, as being normal and effective in politics. He even seemed to encourage it in some situations. The book gained notoriety due to claims that it teaches ""evil recommendations to tyrants to help them maintain their power"". The term ""Machiavellian"" is often associated with political deceit, deviousness, and"
"died in 1527 at 58 after receiving his last rites. He was buried at the Church of Santa Croce in Florence. An epitaph honouring him is inscribed on his monument. The Latin legend reads: (""So great a name (has) no adequate praise"" or ""No eulogy (would be) a match for such a great name""). Commentators have taken very different approaches to Machiavelli and not always agreed. Major discussion has tended to be about two issues: first, how unified and philosophical his work is, and second, concerning how innovative or traditional it is. There is some disagreement concerning how best to"
"Medici for a second time and re-established a republic on May 16, 1527. An individual of highly unusual insight into political conditions of this time was Niccolò Machiavelli, whose prescriptions for Florence's regeneration under strong leadership have often been seen as a legitimization of political expediency and even malpractice. Commissioned by the Medici, Machiavelli wrote the Florentine Histories, a history of the city. However, Machiavelli was later tortured and exiled from Florence by the Medici family in 1513, under the pretense of sedition, due to his ties to the previous democratic government of Florence and the fact that his work"
"to the middle of the 16th century was the product of the political and social conditions of an earlier age. Machiavelli and Guicciardini were the chief originators of the science of history. Machiavelli's principal works are the ""Istorie fiorentine"", the ""Discorsi sulla prima deca di Tito Livio"", the ""Arte della guerra"" and the ""Principe"". His merit consists in having emphasized the experimental side of the study of political action in having observed facts, studied histories and drawn principles from them. His history is sometimes inexact in facts; it is rather a political than an historical work. The peculiarity of Machiavelli's"
"and ruthlessness in international relations. Machiavelli recommended political strategies for reigning, or potential, princes; the infamous teachings gravitate around his vision of the overarching and ultimate goal of any Prince, remaining in power. These strategies range from those that, today, might be called moderate or liberal political advice to those that, today, might be called illegal, immoral or, in the U.S., unconstitutional. For better or worse, Machiavelli is by name, like novelist George Orwell, modernly associated with manipulative acts and philosophies that disregard civil rights and basic human dignity in favor of deception, intimidation, and coercion. This extreme form of"
"Francesco Guicciardini Francesco Guicciardini (; 6 March 1483 – 22 May 1540) was an Italian historian and statesman. A friend and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli, he is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance. In his masterpiece, ""The History of Italy"", Guicciardini paved the way for a new style in historiography with his use of government sources to support arguments and the realistic analysis of the people and events of his time. Francesco Guicciardini was born 6 March 1483 in Florence, now in Italy; he was the third of eleven children of Piero di Iacopo Guicciardini"
"of his extreme teachings, turned against him and arrested him. He was convicted as a heretic and burned at the stake on the Piazza della Signoria on 23 May 1498. A second individual of unusually acute insight was Niccolò Machiavelli, whose prescriptions for Florence's regeneration under strong leadership have often been seen as a legitimisation of political expediency and even malpractice. In other words, Machiavelli was a political thinker, perhaps most renowned for his political handbook, titled The Prince, which is about ruling and the exercise of power. Commissioned by the Medici, Machiavelli also wrote the Florentine Histories, the history"
"d'Italia"" (""Summary of the History of Italy"") and a collection of stories called ""Viaggio in Alamagna"" (""Journey in Germany""). Francesco Vettori Francesco Vettori (1474–1539) was an Italian diplomat, politician and writer from Florence. He served his city during both the republican and the de Medici regimes. He is remembered chiefly as one of the main personal correspondents of Niccolò Machiavelli, but he also published some small works himself in the same period. Vettori's correspondence with Machiavelli includes some of the only surviving written discussions about the writing of Machiavelli's ""little work"", which was to become ""The Prince"". The correspondence is"
"Florentine Histories Florentine Histories () is a historical account by Italian Renaissance political philosopher and writer Niccolò Machiavelli, first published posthumously in 1532. After the crisis of 1513, with arrests for conspiracy, torture and after being sentenced to house arrest, Machiavelli's relationship with the Medici family passively began to mend itself. If the dedication of ""Il Principe"" (1513) to Lorenzo II de' Medici had not any effect, part of the then dominant faction of the Florence was not against him, and instead granted him an appointment. In his letter he deplores his idle state, offering his precious political experience to"
"accused him of conspiracy against them and had him imprisoned. Despite having been subjected to torture (""with the rope"" in which the prisoner is hanged from his bound wrists, from the back, forcing the arms to bear the body's weight and dislocating the shoulders), he denied involvement and was released after three weeks. Machiavelli then retired to his estate at Sant'Andrea in Percussina, near San Casciano in Val di Pesa, and devoted himself to studying and writing of the political treatises that earned his place in the intellectual development of political philosophy and political conduct. Despairing of the opportunity to"
"far from the hero's mother's house. Born in Naples in 1620, Masaniello, whose full name was Tommaso Aniello d'Amalfi, was the son of Francis of Amalfi and Antonia Gargano of Atrani. He was a fishmonger, but was known in the Piazza del Mercato in Naples for his skill as a smuggler. The Neapolitan Republic or 'Royal Republic' () was proclaimed under the protection of France and Masaniello was acclaimed as ""Captain-General of the Neapolitan People."" The power went to his head and he fell into a series of excesses that made him unpopular with the people. On July 16, 1647"
"argues that Machiavelli must have changed his mind dramatically in favour of free republics, after having written ""The Prince"". Translations The Prince The Prince ( ) is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, ""De Principatibus"" (""Of Principalities""). However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. This was done with the permission of the Medici pope Clement VII, but ""long before then, in fact since the first appearance of ""The Prince"" in manuscript,"
"The Mandrake The Mandrake (Italian: ""La Mandragola"" ) 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 following the 1512 reversion to Medici rule. Both contemporary and modern scholars read the play as an overt critique of the House of Medici; however, Machiavelli set the action in 1504 during the period of the Florentine Republic in order"
"day, who largely terrorized the peninsula, in addition to the chronic foreign invasions which occurred on a regular basis at this time. Broadly speaking Machiavelli would institute a series of reforms in 1506 that would create a citizen army of 20,000 men, and establish a system that would keep this citizen army in a state of readiness. Prior to Machiavelli's birth, Italy had been dominated by foreign kings or divided into independent duchies under the influence of the Condettieri for some time. Italy had experienced numerous revolutions. Before the Italian Wars, it had been the domain of the Holy Roman"
"written for the di Medici family in order to perhaps influence them to free him from exile, Machiavelli supported the Republic of Florence rather than the oligarchy of the di Medici family. At any rate, Machiavelli presents a pragmatic and somewhat consequentialist view of politics, whereby good and evil are mere means used to bring about an end—i.e., the secure and powerful state. Thomas Hobbes, well known for his theory of the social contract, goes on to expand this view at the start of the 17th century during the English Renaissance. Although neither Machiavelli nor Hobbes believed in the divine"
"by Malachi Bogdanov, it was shot in HD in Sassari, Sardinia. Produced by European Drama Network, it was made in English with limited Italian sections, and it remains close to the original story. It was nominated for Best Drama of 2008 by the Royal Television Society Awards Midlands. The Mandrake The Mandrake (Italian: ""La Mandragola"" ) 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"
"The Prince The Prince ( ) is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, ""De Principatibus"" (""Of Principalities""). However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. This was done with the permission of the Medici pope Clement VII, but ""long before then, in fact since the first appearance of ""The Prince"" in manuscript, controversy had swirled about his writings"". Although it was written as if it were a traditional work in the ""mirrors"
"of the main characters in ""The Enchantress of Florence"" (2008) by Salman Rushdie, mostly referred to as ""Niccolò 'il Macchia"", and the central protagonist in the 2012 novel ""The Malice of Fortune"" by Michael Ennis. Television dramas centering 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), Borgia (2011–2014) and ""The Borgias"" (2011–2013). Machiavelli appears in the popular historical video games ""Assassin's Creed II"" (2009) and """" (2010), in which he is portrayed as a member of the"
"genius lay, as has been said, in his artistic feeling for the treatment and discussion of politics in and for themselves, without regard to an immediate end in his power of abstracting himself from the partial appearances of the transitory present, in order more thoroughly to possess himself of the eternal and inborn kingdom, and to bring it into subjection to himself. Next to Machiavelli both as an historian and a statesman comes Guicciardini. Guicciardini was very observant, and endeavoured to reduce his observations to a science. His ""Storia d'Italia"", which extends from the death of Lorenzo de Medici to"