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Machiavelli

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Ma·chi·a·vel·li  (mk--vl, mäkyä-), Niccolò 1469-1527.
Italian political theorist whose book The Prince (1513) describes the achievement and maintenance of power by a determined ruler indifferent to moral considerations.
Machiavelli [ˌmækɪəˈvɛlɪ]
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(Biographies / Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469-1527) M, Florentine, POLITICS: statesman, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher) Niccolò (nikkoˈlɔ). 1469-1527, Florentine statesman and political philosopher; secretary to the war council of the Florentine republic (1498-1512). His most famous work is Il Principe (The Prince, 1532)
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Noun1.MachiavelliMachiavelli - a statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central government (1469-1527)
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Machiavelli [ˌmækɪəˈvelɪ] N → Maquiavelo
Machiavelli
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The brain of a Machiavelli could scarcely have invented a plausible reply.
The Vanished Messenger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
She beheld the horrible fate that overtook three Papists--two he-babies and a she-baby--who began their career by sousing each other with the Holy Water, and then proceeded to the Machiavelli memorial, dripping but hallowed.
A Room With A View by Forster, E. M. View in context
Machiavelli was the accredited agent of the Florentine Republic to Cesare Borgia (1478-1507) during the transactions which led up to the assassinations of the Orsini and Vitelli at Sinigalia, and along with his letters to his chiefs in Florence he has left an account, written ten years before "The Prince," of the proceedings of the duke in his "Descritione del modo tenuto dal duca Valentino nello ammazzare Vitellozzo Vitelli," etc.
The Prince by Machiavelli, Nicolo View in context
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