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A colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative account of Machiavelli's life and thoughtThis is a colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative introduction to the life and work of the Florentine statesman, writer, and political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527). Corrado Vivanti, who was one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars, provides an unparalleled intellectual biography that demonstrates the close connections between Machiavelli's thought and his changing fortunes during the tumultuous Florentine republic and his subsequent exile. Vivanti's concise account covers not only Machiavelli's most famous works-The Prince, The Discourses, The Florentine Histories, and The Art of War-but also his letters, poetry, and comic dramas. While setting Machiavelli's life against a dramatic backdrop of war, crisis, and diplomatic intrigue, the book also paints a vivid human portrait of the man.

Statesmen --- Machiavelli, Niccolò, --- Florence (Italy) --- Intellectual life --- Politics and government --- Adagia. --- Age of Enlightenment. --- Agostino Vespucci. --- Ammianus Marcellinus. --- Ancient Rome. --- Andrea del Sarto. --- Antonio Gramsci. --- Barbarian. --- Battle of Marignano. --- Benvenuto Cellini. --- Cadet branch. --- Captain general. --- Caterina Sforza. --- Catherine de' Medici. --- Cesare Borgia. --- Civil religion. --- Coluccio Salutati. --- Condottieri. --- Conspiracy theory. --- Cosimo de' Medici. --- Council of Ten. --- Council of Trent. --- Criticism of Christianity. --- Democracy in America. --- Despotism. --- Dictatorship. --- Diplomacy. --- Enemy of God (novel). --- Etruscan civilization. --- Flattery. --- For the Glory. --- Francesco Guicciardini. --- Francis Bacon (artist). --- French Wars of Religion. --- Friedrich Meinecke. --- Galeazzo Maria Sforza. --- Georg von Frundsberg. --- Giovanni Villani. --- Girolamo Savonarola. --- Giuliano da Sangallo. --- Giuliano de' Medici. --- Herodian. --- High politics. --- Hostility. --- House of Medici. --- Indulgence. --- Jacob Burckhardt. --- Leonardo Bruni. --- Life of Castruccio Castracani. --- Livy. --- Lorenzo de' Medici. --- Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici. --- Louis XII of France. --- Lucretius. --- Machiavellianism. --- Majesty. --- March on Rome. --- Matteo Bandello. --- Mercenary. --- Multitude. --- Niccolò Machiavelli. --- Norberto Bobbio. --- Original meaning. --- Orlando Furioso. --- Ostracism. --- Patrician (ancient Rome). --- Persecution. --- Pessimism. --- Petrarch. --- Philippe Verdelot. --- Poggio Bracciolini. --- Political philosophy. --- Politics. --- Poliziano. --- Pope Alexander VI. --- Pope Clement VII. --- Pope Julius II. --- Pope Leo X. --- Potentate. --- Prince of the Church. --- Prison Notebooks. --- Prisoner in the Vatican. --- Religious war. --- Republic of Florence. --- Romagna. --- Sedition. --- Signoria. --- Slavery. --- Sovereignty. --- State of nature. --- Subversion. --- Suetonius. --- Sulla. --- Superiority (short story). --- The Other Hand. --- V. --- WIN Party. --- War. --- Warfare. --- Writing.