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12 unusual facts about Niccolò Machiavelli


Anthony Parel

He has authored and edited a number of books, on subjects including Thomas Aquinas, Niccolò Machiavelli, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and South Asian history.

Bruno the Bandit

Bruno stubbornly clings to his evil ways (which include torture, murder, investment fraud, and clubbing baby seals) in the face of overwhelming evidence of the Machiavellian power of enlightened self-interest.

Colonel Ross

He uses Machiavellian methods to achieve his ends, which generally involve not telling things to his subordinates, something which frustrates Palmer.

Djambi

Djambi (also described as "Machiavelli's chessboard") is a board game and a chess variant for four players, invented by Jean Anesto in 1975.

Eros Vlahos

He currently appears in a recurring role on the television series Da Vinci's Demons, as Nico Machiavelli.

Hanna Fenichel Pitkin

Pitkin's books are The Concept of Representation (1967), Wittgenstein and Justice (1972, 1984, 1992), and Fortune Is a Woman: Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolò Machiavelli (1984, 1999), in addition to numerous articles and edited volumes.

Hans E. Kinck

His great historical play Mot Karneval (Towards Carnival), based on the life of Niccolò Machiavelli is a prime example; also, a play based on the life of Pietro Aretino called Den Sidste Gjæst/The Last Guest).

Machiavel

Machiavel, named after Niccolò Machiavelli, is a Belgian rock group founded in 1974 and still recording and touring today.

Mark Nottingham

He included Machiavelli's The Prince among the books to read: "It's short, sweet (well, not really) and gets you in the proper frame of mind for doing battle, er, gathering consensus," he quipped.

Monica Vitti

She toured Germany with an Italian acting troupe and her first stage appearance in Rome was for a production of Niccolò Machiavelli's La Mandragola.

Nicoletta Machiavelli

The daughter of a Florentine father and of an American mother, she is a descendant of philosopher and author Niccolò Machiavelli.

Stag's Leap Wine Cellars

Warren Winiarski was introduced to wine while on a year-long trip to Italy studying the work of Niccolò Machiavelli.


Discourse about the Provision of Money

Discourse about the Provision of Money (Italian: Discorso sopra la provisione del danaro) is a 1502 work by Italian political scientist and writer Niccolò Machiavelli.

Michael Taccetta

During conversations, he would often quote and misquote passages from Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince to anyone who would listen, in an attempt to impress them.

Silvio Passerini

With the young Alessandro and Ippolito de' Medici in tow, he attended the first performance of Niccolò Machiavelli's comedy La Mandragola, Vasari related.

Stendhal syndrome

When he visited the Basilica of Santa Croce, where Niccolò Machiavelli, Michelangelo and Galileo Galilei are buried, he saw Giotto's frescoes for the first time and was overcome with emotion.

The Devil with Boobs

Described by Fo as "a Machiavellian comedy, a gigantic late sixteenth-century intrigue, with judges and devils, housekeepers possessed by devils, hermits, gendarmes, torturers and even a monkey", it featured an homage to his long-time collaborator Fiorenzo Carpi who had died earlier that year (1997).

Tommaso Inghirami

A member of the Roman intellectual elite, Inghirami was praised by Ludovico Ariosto, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione, Paolo Giovio, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Angelo Colocci.