Niccolò Machiavelli

During the five years of their engagement, John Austin decided that Sarah was in need of a rigorous intellectual education in accordance with his religious, political, and philosophical bent of mind. He provided her...

He was born in Naples on 3 October 1827, and had already become known as a historian when he published Archivo Storico Italiano in 1856. He was a professor of history at...

The name of the heroine, Benigna Machiavelli, suggests on the one hand benignity or benevolence and on the other hand the ruthless political manipulation associated with the methods of the historical Niccolò Machiavelli . Benigna...

Her radio play entitled The Courtier, the Prince and the Lady, drawing from Machiavelli and Castiglione with music from the Renaissance composer Josquin Desprez and his contemporaries, was produced by Piers Plowright for BBC Radio 3

AD 's chosen metre, poulter's measure, consists of alexandrines (lines of twelve syllables or six feet) alternating with lines of fourteen syllables or seven feet). She embroiders her prose sources with invented speeches for her...

Her protagonist Caesar or Cesare (illegitimate son of a Pope, brother to Lucrezia Borgia , example much cited by Niccolò Machiavelli ) had a career that moved in the opposite direction from Richelieu's: he was...

This was designed to replace an earlier English translation by Leonard Horner , which had appeared in 1863. Pasquale Villari had approved that version, but evidently believed that Linda could do better. Other works of...

These essays thus represent a radical shift in thinking. They are much concerned with reputation. That on Machiavelli observes that he is a man uniquely misunderstood, whose reputation is uniquely skewed. Eliot argues that Baudelaire