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Thus James Harrington, the author of the Commonwealth of Oceana (1656), called Machia - velli the “prince of polititians” and for Henry Neville, the author of the Plato Redivivus, Machiavelli was the
MACHIAVELLISM FELIX GILBERT 1968
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Here we find three friends, Antonino “Nino” Argalia, Niccolò “il Machia” Machiavelli, and Ago Vespucci.
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On the threshold of manhood Ago had agreed with his friend Niccolò “il Machia” on one thing: whatever hardships the times might bring, a good, energetic night with the ladies would put everything right.
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Here we find three friends, Antonino “Nino” Argalia, Niccolò “il Machia” Machiavelli, and Ago Vespucci.
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On the threshold of manhood Ago had agreed with his friend Niccolò “il Machia” on one thing: whatever hardships the times might bring, a good, energetic night with the ladies would put everything right.
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On the threshold of manhood Ago had agreed with his friend Niccolò “il Machia” on one thing: whatever hardships the times might bring, a good, energetic night with the ladies would put everything right.
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Here we find three friends, Antonino “Nino” Argalia, Niccolò “il Machia” Machiavelli, and Ago Vespucci.
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Machiavelli is the quintessential Renaissance Florentine, a mixture of the high-minded and the lascivious ( "Il Machia ... seemed to be the reincarnation of the god Priapus, always ready for action"), [3] involved in political scheming even in his youth, and highly ambitious; when the Medicis ascend to power in Florence with the election of a Medici pope, Machiavelli falls into disfavor, and, in scenes Rushdie chooses not to dramatize, is terribly tortured.
In the Emperor's Dream House Oates, Joyce Carol 2008
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Meanwhile the more intellectually and politically ambitious Niccolò "il Machia" remains behind, a brooding (if bawdy) center of skeptical consciousness meant to mirror the philosopher-king Akbar.
In the Emperor's Dream House Oates, Joyce Carol 2008
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In October the Italians staged what Nigel Deighton, telecom-research director of the Gartner Group for Europe, calls a "Machia-vellian auction."
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