What we’re missing in Machiavelli’s The Prince, explained by an expert. There are very few philosophers who become part of ...

Renaissance writers reassessed their history, inventing terms like the Dark Ages — to the eternal chagrin of medievalists — ...

Alexander VI’s historical infamy is perhaps outdone only by his son, Cesare Borgia, made famous by his mention in Niccolo Machiavelli’s book The Prince ... all during the sequestration and the real ...

Alexander VI’s historical infamy is perhaps outdone only by his son, Cesare Borgia, made famous by his mention in Niccolò Machiavelli ... and the real work of electing a pope began.

Young Niccolò got a respectable education, beginning with Latin grammar at the age of seven, and acquired a wide-ranging knowledge of the classics, though he would write his chief works ... and famous ...

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