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3 May 1469
What is his birth?
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The Prince
What is most famous book by Machiavelli?
100
Was a classically influenced genre, with models at least as far back as Xenophon and Isocrates
What is the Mirror of Princes style?
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Machiavelli felt that his early schooling along the lines of a traditional classical education was essentially useless for the purpose of understanding politics
What is Empiricism and realism versus idealism?
100
The modern west's new technology.
What is the printing press?
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Renaissance Italy
What is his era?
200
Classical history of early ancient Rome
What is Discourses on Livy?
200
some of the republican themes in Machiavelli's political works, particularly the Discourses on Livy, was influenced by classical authors such as Sallust.
What is Cambridge School of interpretation?
200
In his opinion, Christianity, along with teleological Aristotelianism that the church had come to accept, allowed practical decisions to be guided too much by imaginary ideals and encouraged people to lazily leave events up to providence.
What is Fortune?
200
Henry VIII was influenced to...
What is turn towards Protestantism?
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Florentine Militia
Between 1503 and 1506 what was Machiavelli responsible for?
300
An eight-volume history book of the city-state, Florence, commissioned by Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici
What is Istorie Florentine?
300
Classical political philosophers
What is Xenophon, Plato and Aristotle?
300
Machiavelli can never be conventionally religious himself just helps his people be religious.
What is his Religion?
300
Modern materialist philosophy
What is developed in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries?
400
Machiavelli accused of conspiracy, arrested, and imprisoned at the time.
What happened 1513?
400
classical comedy of 1517
What is The Woman of Andros?
400
Influenced by some ideas from classical materialists such as Democritus, Epicurus and Lucretius.
What is Classical materialism?
400
Even though there are classical precedents, Machiavelli's insistence on being both realistic and ambitious, not only admitting that vice exists but being willing to risk encouraging it, is a critical step on the path to this insight.
What is the positive side to factional and individual vice?
400
5 Major philosophers that were influenced...
What is Montaigne, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke and Montesquieu?
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Machiavelli's Burial place
What is Church of Santa Croce?
500
A comedy in the style of Aristophanes which included living Florentines as characters
What is Le Maschere?
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Both emphasized power politics
What is the similarity between Machiavellian and the Greek historian Thucydides?
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The employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct.
What is Machiavellianism?
500
In what constitution did John Adams praise Machiavelli...
What is Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States?