This Florentine author of "Il Principe" also wrote a history of Florence
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Niccol Machiavelli - Wikipedia  Niccol Machiavelli or more formally Niccol di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, was an Italian Renaissance historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist, and writer. He has often been called the founder of modern political science. He was for many years a senior official in the Florentine Republic, with ... He wrote his most renowned work The Prince (Il Principe) in 1513.
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Niccolo Machiavelli Biography - Brandeis Users' Home Pages  Writings by the Author Introduction Biography Il principe. The Prince Discorsi ... sopra la prima ... Personal Information: PERSONAL: (Also Nicolo, Niccholo, and Nicolas; also ... Born May 3, 1469, in Florence, Italy; died of illness; June 21, 1527, ... Historie di Nicolo Machiavegli (history), 1532, published as The Florentine...
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Niccolo Machiavelli | Italian statesman and writer | Britannica.com  Niccol Machiavelli, (born May 3, 1469, Florence, Italydied June 21, 1527, Florence) ... of the Florentine republic, whose most famous work, The Prince (Il Principe), .... of short political discourses and poems (the Decennali) on Florentine history. ... About the same time that Machiavelli wrote The Prince (1513), he was also...
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Florentine Histories - Wikipedia  Florentine Histories (Italian: Istorie fiorentine) is a historical account by Italian Renaissance political philosopher and writer ... If the dedication of Il Principe (1513) to Lorenzo II de' Medici had not any effect, part of the then ... At the end of that year, Giulio Cardinal de Medici commissioned him to write a History of Florence.
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Niccol Machiavelli Biography - CliffsNotes  Personal Background Niccol Machiavelli was born in the city of Florence, Italy, ... Within a month, he also became secretary to the Council of Ten of War, Florence's foreign policy body, ... In this self-imposed exile, he wrote The Prince (Il Principe), which distilled his ... He worked on his Florentine History from 1520 to 1524.
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Full text of "Florence; her history and art to the fall of the republic"  Entry of Henry VII. into Italy Visit of Robert the Wise to Florence 131 1. ..... tournament Murder of Galeazzo-Maria Sforza The Pazzi conspiracy CHAPTER XVIII 1478-1492 1478. ..... The Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent, By William Roscoe. ...... He was nominally a chief constable, but he was, in fact, a dictator.
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Full text of "The painters of Florence from the thirteenth to the ...  "He found wealthy patrons to encourage and reward him, and a public quick to ... the days of Giotto, the great awakener, to those of Leonardo and Michelangelo. ...... And Giotto, on his part, Vasari tells us, was deeply attached to the exiled poet, ...... the greatest city in the world, and lived in the age of the magnificent Medici.
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The Italian High Renaissance (1495-1527) - Art History - About.com  3. Mannerism in the Late Italian Renaissance. 4. The Proto-Renaissance - Art History 101 .... Trained in Umbria, but studied in Florence (where he picked up his...
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Newton and the colour of light - The College of Optometrists  His experiments in bending light through prisms led, eventually, to the ... Newton's Opticks, first published in 1704, went through many editions and was the ... scientific writers, including Aristotle, Alhazen, Vitello and Antonio de Dominis, ... law of centrifugal force, were continued in 1679 and culminated in his book, Principia.
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Florence - Wikipedia  Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the Metropolitan City of .... The city primary resource was the Arno river providing power and access for ... a great patron of the arts, commissioning works by Michelangelo, Leonardo da ... In other words, Machiavelli was a sort of political thinker, perhaps most...
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Decameron - Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 18  Nov 10, 2009 ... 7 Summary of Tales ... Giovanni Boccaccio's was born in June or July of 1313 BCE in Certaldo or ... 14th Century Italy was struck by famines and wars which only ... the Plague's symptoms: its earliest symptom, in men and women alike, ... The ten pilgrims who flee Florence were among the multitudes of...
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Niccol Machiavelli - Wikipedia  Niccol Machiavelli or more formally Niccol di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, was an Italian Renaissance historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist, and writer. He has often been called the founder of modern political science. He was for many years a senior official in the Florentine Republic, with ... He was secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from...
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Michelangelo Buonarroti and Florence | Unseen Tuscany  On March 6, 1475, in a tiny Tuscan village of Caprese Michelangelo, the most famous artist of all times Michelangelo Buonarroti was born. ... the 1501s Michelangelo returned to Florence, where he was already known as the author of 'Pieta'.
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Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio  Reviews, Discussion ...  Published December 28th 2012 by Start Publishing (first published 1348) ... This is the basic frame used by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio to tell us one hundred tales of life, ...... 10 young people escape the plague-ridden city of Florence to give .... A collection of 100 short stories written in the 14th century, written not in a...
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Page 1 58 PART 1 a EuroPE N TRAnsition, 13001750 education ...  ments of the Italian Renaissance during the fifteenth century. ..... 14781492), ruled Florence in almost totalitarian fashion during the ... searches, they assembled magnificent manuscript collections brimming with the his- ...... hing dictators.
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The Real Machiavelli and 2pac/Makiveli's idle - Tripod  He was one of the brightest lights of the Italian Renaissance, a writer of powerful, ... because the motives and language of his chief works 'The Prince' and 'Discourses on ... welfare of Florence was persuading the city to raise its own militia instead of using a ... He was vindicated when his militia helped conquer Pisa in 1509.
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Beatrice Portinari - Wikipedia  Beatrice "Bice" di Folco Portinari was a Florentine woman who has been commonly identified ... Folco Portinari was a rich banker, born in Portico di Romagna. ... According to Dante, he first met Beatrice when his father took him to the Portinari ... Dante's courtly love for Beatrice continued for nine years, before the pair finally...
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Why Florence Was the Center of Early Italian Renaissance Art  How Florence Became the Center of Early Italian Renaissance Art ... "cultured" world, which subsequently launched the Renaissance to the point of no return.
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History Unit 11 Flashcards | Quizlet  They made money from sales of indulgences and church offices. .... This city was once a center of Renaissance culture in the 1400s, ... Foundling Hospital in Florence. Italian Renaissance architect; designer of the dome on the Duomo di Santa Maria del Flore; invented hoists for the ... He pioneered linear perspective.
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Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446)  Brunelleschi is known as the father of Renaissance architecture and was the most ... commission to design a dome to top the Florence Cathedral (Duomo) which had ... created the Ospedale degli Innocenti or Foundling Hospital in Florence.
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Florence Baptistery - Wikipedia  The Florence Baptistery also known as the Baptistery of Saint John, is a religious building in ... The east doors were dubbed by Michelangelo the Gates of Paradise. ... The earlier baptistry was the city's second basilica after San Lorenzo, outside the .... Ghiberti's autobiography, however, claimed that he had won, "without a...