Napoli piange Gino Nicolais, lo scienziato prestato alla politica morto oggi all'età di 83 anni. Ingegnere, accademico e politico, Luigi Nicolais è stata una delle figure che più hanno incarnato in ...
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli[a] (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine [4][5] diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince (Il Principe), written around 1513 but not published until 1532, five years after his death. [6] .
Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian Renaissance political philosopher, statesman, and secretary of the Florentine republic. His most famous work is The Prince (Il Principe), which brought him a reputation as an atheist and an immoral cynic.
Machiavelli’s guide to power was revolutionary in that it described how powerful people succeeded—as he saw it—rather than as one imagined a leader should operate. Before his exile, Machiavelli...
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When the Medici family returned to power in Florence, Machiavelli was ousted, jailed, and even tortured for supposedly conspiring against them. After he was released, he was essentially a political exile, so he did what any unemployed intellectual would do—he wrote a book.
Machiavelli was a 16th century Florentine philosopher known primarily for his political ideas. His two most famous philosophical books, The Prince and the Discourses on Livy, were published after his death.
Machiavelli criticized at length precisely this moralistic view of authority in his best-known treatise, The Prince. For Machiavelli, there is no moral basis on which to judge the difference between legitimate and illegitimate uses of power.