Machiavelli and Empire (Ideas in Context)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 13, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521839457
Subjects: Political science & theory; Scientists - General; Machiavelli, NiccolÃ¡o,; Florence (Italy); To 1500; Political science; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Politics / Current Events; Machiavelli, Niccolo,; Italy; History; History & Theory - General; Political Science / History & Theory; Philosophy; Principe; 1469-1527; 1469-1527.; Discorsi sopra la prima deca d; Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio; Machiavelli, Niccoláo,
First sentence: In Machiavelli's most famous comedy, La mandragola (1518), the desperately love-sick Callimaco asks his clever friend, Ligurio, for help in getting into bed with the beautiful Lucrezia, the childless and unhappy wife of Nicia, a wealthy merchant and "the simplest and most stupid man of Florence."