Word: machiavellis
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...journalist and intimate friend of the late King Albert, the career of at least one modern monarch can properly be termed tragic. In another period of the world's history Albert might have reigned at peace with his subjects, won fame as an intellectual who had studied Marx, Machiavelli, Taine, kept up with modern literature to the extent of being able to enjoy Louis-Ferdinand Celine's grim Journey to the End of the Night. But the War made him a soldier whose kingdom was occupied by the enemy, and peace left him with an exhausted country...
...asking them first what they think. They may try to guess what he wants them to think, but inevitably Stalin succeeds in digging out much mental meat. He then sums up, gives his decision, and with sighs of relief the henchmen agree. This method, adopted by Mussolini from Machiavelli's II Principe, Stalin evolved from his innate Oriental flair for despotism. Charming when he chooses, Joseph Stalin, big-boned and big-mustached, last week asked small-boned, small-mustached Anthony Eden what he thought of Adolf Hitler. Thenceforth they got on famously. Snatches of their conversation as later divulged...
Francis I (1494-1547) lived at a lively time. A contemporary of Henry VIII, Erasmus, John Calvin, Rabelais, Machiavelli, he came to the French throne when monarchy meant owning the country. Only 20 when he became king, he found it delightful to be an autocrat. Did he want a château? He built it. A woman? He took her. The Mona Lisa? He bought it. Another province? He raised an army. But his political ambitions ended by embroiling him in a complicated series of expensive wars, and at the battle of Pavia he was captured by the German Emperor...
...centuries ago, they have been shown to draw most heavily upon two obscure books of the mid-19th Century. First of these, published in Brussels in 1865, was a political attack on Napoleon III, written by a French lawyer named Maurice Joly and entitled A Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu. In this work, for publishing which its author was jailed for 18 months, the famed French essayist acts as literary stooge to the Italian courtier, whose unscrupulous policies are, by implication, ascribed to the Bonaparte Emperor...
...Italy today Benito Mussolini is "The Prince" (i. e. the State) as imagined by Niccoló Machiavelli. Different was Prince Don Gelasio Caetani who died last week. He closely fitted the ideal of Erasmus: "The Prince exists for the sake of the State...