Niccolò Machiavelli: Quick Facts


Facts

Born May 3, 1469 • Florence • Italy
Died June 21, 1527 (aged 58) • Florence • Italy
Notable Works “Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy” • “Florentine Histories” • “On the Way to Deal with the Rebel Subjects of the Valdichiana” • “The Art of War” • “The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca” • “The Mandrake” • “The Prince”
Subjects Of Study Cesare Borgia • Germany • fortuna • republic • virtù

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Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl
German author
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Karl Gotthard Lamprecht
German historian
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Fritz Fischer
German historian
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Germaine de StaĂŤl
French-Swiss author
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
German philosopher
Freiherr von Pufendorf
Samuel, baron von Pufendorf
German jurist and historian
Franz von Papen
Franz von Papen
German statesman
Portrait of German diplomat Joachim von Ribbentrop in formal attire, looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression.
Joachim von Ribbentrop
German diplomat
Treitschke, Heinrich von
Heinrich von Treitschke
German historian
Meinecke, 1942
Friedrich Meinecke
German historian
Harry von Arnim
Harry, count von Arnim
Prussian diplomat
Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet.
Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet
British statesman
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Heinrich von Sybel
German historian
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Georg Spalatin
Bavarian humanist
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Arnold Brecht
German political scientist
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Georg Waitz
German historian
Bainville, 1936
Jacques Bainville
French writer and historian
Edward R. Murrow (left) and William L. Shirer.
William L. Shirer
American author
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Conradus Celtis
German scholar
Dahlmann, detail from an engraving by Adolf Hohneck, 1844
Friedrich Dahlmann
German historian