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Name: Niccolò Machiavelli
Birth Date: May 3, 1469
Death Date: May 22, 1527
Place of Birth: Florence, Italy
Place of Death: Florence, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: statesman, author

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Biography of Niccolò Machiavelli
2,091 words, approx. 7 pages
Best known for his works The Prince and The Art of War, fifteenth-century Italian statesman Niccolò Machiavelli remains influential centuries after his death as the first writer to break with the tradition of Aristotle and disentangle the art of...
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Biography of Niccolò Machiavelli
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The Italian author and statesman Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) is best known for The Prince, in which he enunciated his political philosophy. Niccolò Machiavelli was born in Florence of an aristocratic, though by no means wealthy,...


Quotations
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Niccolò Machiavelli Quotes
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Niccolò Machiavelli ( 1469-05-03 – 1527-06-21 ) was a Florentine political philosopher, historian, musician, poet, and romantic comedic playwright. Machiavelli was also a key figure in realist political theory, crucial to European statecraft during...


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Machiavelli, Niccolò [addendum] Summary
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Machiavelli, Niccol s Theory of Political Freedom. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer, 2000. Viroli, Maurizio. Machiavelli. Oxford: Oxford University Press,...
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Machiavelli, Niccolo : Topics in Social Science
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Machiavelli was a Florentine patriot, civil servant and political theorist. Entering the service of the Council of Ten which ruled republican Florence in 1498, he was sent abroad on diplomatic missions which provided much of the experience later to be...
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Machiavelli, Niccolò Summary
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Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), in Florence on born May 3, was a Florentine statesman and Renaissance Italy's greatest political philosopher; he died in Florence on June 21. He is often regarded as the first to take a scientific...
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Machiavelli : Topics in Politics
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Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) was a Florentine diplomat and civil servant whose writing included not only political theory but also plays. He is famous more for attitudes somewhat unfairly associated with him than for anything that he really...
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Niccolò Machiavelli Information
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Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was an Italian diplomat, political philosopher, musician, poet, and playwright. He is a figure of the Italian Renaissance and a central figure of its political component, most widely...
 


News and Journals
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History: Review of New Books
Machiavelli.(Review)
06/22/1999: 476 words, approx. 2 pages
Viroli, Maurizio Machiavelli New York: Oxford University Press 247 pp., $55.00 cloth, $16.95 paper ISBN 0-19-878088-5 cloth ISBN 0-19-878089-3 paper Publication Date: February 1999 Though not a biography, Princeton University political scientist Maurizio Viroli's stimulating treatise takes its cue from Sebastian de...
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Humanities
Questioning Machiavelli
05/01/2007: 564 words, approx. 2 pages
How can an author be a prince? How can the author of The Prince be considered one among the many princes he describes? An author and a prince seem quite distinct. One leads a soft, retired life thinking of intangibles and invisibles-as sheltered an...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Mera J. Flaumenhaft
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In the following essay, Flaumenhaft examines Machivelli's use of comedy in support of his idea of virtù.
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Critical Essay by Robert Faulkner
13,092 words, approx. 44 pages
In the following essay, Faulkner discusses Machiavelli's humor and underlying message in La clizia.
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Critical Essay by James B. Atkinson
11,532 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following essay, Atkinson shows how the plays reflect Machiavelli's politics and philosophy.
 
Featured Essays
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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The prince and discourses
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Machiavelli and the Roman Empire
1,931 words, approx. 6 pages
Explains how the Roman Republic could act as a central example for both The Prince and the Discourses on Livy. Also explains why Machiavelli finds it so worthy of imitation.
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Machiavelli and his Teachings
1,596 words, approx. 5 pages
Discusses Machiavelli's history, beliefs, and teachings. Compares his conflicts to those of George W. Bush and the Iraq war and suggests how Machiavelli would advise Bush. Keywords: international relations, philosophy, Machiavellian
 


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