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...NICOLO MACHIAVELLI, The Florentine-Giuseppi Prezzolini-Brentano...
...Machiavelli has become little more than an adjective signifying ruthless scheming duplicity. The present biography makes it quite clear that a man is behind the adjective, a true Florentine who slung mud and cobble stones in street-fights along the Arno, swapped bawdy yarns over a noggin of wine, curried favor with whatever political power there happened...
...with a curled lip, Nicolo Machiavelli, watched the puss-in-the-corner competition of petty princes, watched hired captains of mercenaries scheming to prolong their lucrative warfare, watched Ludovico break the unwritten rule of the game and call in Charles VIII, Foreigner, to settle a local dispute, while all Italians smiled, bowed, tossed flowers in the French king's path, stones in his wake. With still more of a curl to his lip, Nicolo watched Savonarola hypnotizing the garish Florentine crowds into demure god-fearing citizenry, and the street gamins into veritable "boyscouts of the Lord." He suspected...
There is being shown this week in the Memorial Room at Widener Library a collection of various editions of the works of Nicholas Machiavelli, the Florentine statesman who died in 1527, 400 years...
...very interesting exhibit was unearthed from the open shelves at Widener, its existence having previously been unknown. It is a copy of an edition of Machiavelli's unpublished works printed in London in 1760, presented by the publishers to Thomas Hollis of Lincoln's Inn, who gave it to the College Library a few days later. In it he inscribed "Felicity is freedom, and freedom is magnanimity. Thucyd," Thomas Hollis was called "of Lincoln's Inn" to distinguish from the two other Thomas Hollises, all of whom were members of a family that was one of the greatest of Harvard...