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Description edit
Edited and translated by Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa, "The Portable Machiavelli" not only gives the casual reader a chance to read different personal and professional works of Machiavelli, but also strives to do away with many of the myths that have plagued the man's posthumous fame. For... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Castrucci: Add a description of this character.
- Niccolb Machiavelli
- Pope Alexander
- Romulus
- Roderigo
- Caesar
- Madonna Lucrezia
- Gianmatteo
- Orsini
- Cyrus
- Cosimo
- Marcus
- Messer Giovanni
- Cesare Borgia
- Pandolfo
- Fabius
- Romagna
- Francesco Sforza
- Lucca
- Livy
- Scipio
- Duke
- Charles
- Lorenzo
- Piero Soderini
- Uguccione
- Colonna
- Viii
- Pope Julius
- Messer Antonio
- Darius
- Giuliano
- Pazzi
- Marius
- Hannibal
- Timoteo
- Machlavelli
- Veii
- Filippo
- Neri
- Gracchi
- Pagolo Guinigi
- Cleomenes
Setting & Locations edit
- Rome
- Italy
- Florence
- Pisa
- Florentines
- Spain
- Greece
- Lombardy
- Sparta
- Tuscany
- Venice
- Athens
- Callimaco
- Manlius
- Heaven
- Naples
- Syracuse
- Asia
- Bologna
- Germany
- Africa
- Arezzo
- Capua
- Paris
- Sicily
- Europe
- Solon
- Siena
- Prato
- Urbino
- Latium
- Sostrata
- Macedonia
- Carthage
- Brescia
- Guelf
- Savonarola
- Signoria
- Thebes
- Liguria
- Sanmites
- Fucecchio
- Alexandria
First Sentence edit
In order to give you, as you requested, a complete report of things here concerning the friar, I would have you know that after delivering the two sermons, of which you have already received a copy, the preached on the Sunday of the carnival, and after saying many things, he invited one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one's tears.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Peter E. Bondanella (Editor)
- Mark Musa (Editor)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 320.10924
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Movements & Periods › Renaissance
- Books › Nonfiction › Philosophy › Modern Renaissance
- Books › Nonfiction › Foreign Language Nonfiction › Italian
- Books › Nonfiction › Philosophy › History & Surveys
- Books › Nonfiction › Philosophy › Political
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Essays
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
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