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| Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. |
| —The Prince, Chapter 17. |
Niccolo
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| Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| 1469–1527, Italian author and statesman, one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance, b. Florence. Machiavelli’s best-known work, Il principe [the prince] (1532), describes the means by which a prince may gain and maintain his power. His “ideal” prince (seemingly modeled on Cesare Borgia) is an amoral and calculating tyrant who would be able to establish a unified Italian state. The last chapter of the work pleads for the eventual liberation of Italy from foreign rule.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  m k´´ - -v l´, mä´´kyä- from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- The Prince
Instructions on how to rule wisely. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXXVI, Part 1.
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- Machiavelli, Niccolo, 37201 to 37215
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- WRITINGS ABOUT MACHIAVELLI
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- “Machiavelli”
Section by Charles Whibley from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
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