1469-1527; Florentine statesman & writer
Machiavelli
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Proper noun
(plural Machiavellis)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), Italian statesman and writer, whose work The Prince (1532) advises that acquiring and exercising power may require unethical methods.
- A Machiavellian person
Origin
The name derives from the feminine suffix machia, meaning "battle, fight" (see -machy) + Latin velli, present passive infinitive of vello "to pull or tear down, demolish."
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Sentence Examples
- Whether as a result of his fear of the rivalry of Jem, or of his personal character, Bayezid showed little of the aggressive spirit of his warlike predecessors; and Machiavelli said that another such sultan would cause Turkey to cease being a menace to Europe.
- Niccolo MACHIAVELLI (1469-1527), Italian statesman and writer, was born at Florence on the 3rd of May 1469.
- Machiavelli calls luxury, simony and cruelty the three dear friends and handmaids of the same pope.'
- The new duke of Urbino was the Lorenzo de' Medici to whom Machiavelli addressed The Prince.
- Gregorovius's Lucrezia Borgia (Stuttgart, 1874) contains a great deal of information on the Borgia family; P. Villari's Machiavelli (English translation, new ed., 1892) deals with the subject at some length.
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