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Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.
Don King

Meaning of "Machiavelli" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MACHIAVELLI

Machiavelli  [ˌmækɪəˈvɛlɪ] play
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Machiavelli is a noun.
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WHAT DOES MACHIAVELLI MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist, and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. He was for many years an official in the Florentine Republic, with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. He was a founder of modern political science, and more specifically political ethics. He also wrote comedies, carnival songs, and poetry. His personal correspondence is renowned in the Italian language. He was Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power. He wrote his masterpiece, The Prince, after the Medici had recovered power and he no longer held a position of responsibility in Florence. "Machiavellianism" is a widely used negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli described in The Prince. The book itself gained enormous notoriety and wide readership because the author seemed to be endorsing behavior often deemed as evil and immoral.

Definition of Machiavelli in the English dictionary

The definition of Machiavelli in the dictionary is Niccolò. 1469–1527, Florentine statesman and political philosopher; secretary to the war council of the Florentine republic. His most famous work is Il Principe.

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Synonyms and antonyms of Machiavelli in the English dictionary of synonyms

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马基雅维利
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Maquiavelo
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مكيافيلي
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Макиавелли
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Maquiavel
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Machiavel
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Makyavel
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Machiavelli
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Machiavelli

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7 QUOTES WITH «MACHIAVELLI»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Machiavelli.
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Robert Foster Bennett
Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.
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Silvio Berlusconi
The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.
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Don King
Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.
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Mack McLarty
What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.
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Mads Mikkelsen
Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.
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Loretta Napoleoni
Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years later Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor.
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Howard Zinn
In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MACHIAVELLI»

Discover the use of Machiavelli in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Machiavelli and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Prince
The book was not published until five years after his death. So powerful was the message in this book that the name Machiavellian entered into our collective vocabulary.
Niccolo Machiavelli, 2009
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Machiavelli: The Prince
This new edition includes notes on the principal events in Machiavelli's life, and on the vocabulary of The Prince, as well as biographical notes on characters in the text.
Niccolo Machiavelli, Quentin Skinner, Russell Price, 1988
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Art of War
Niccolò Machiavelli's Art of War is one of the world's great classics of military and political theory.
Niccolò Machiavelli, 2009
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Thoughts on Machiavelli
Strauss sought to incorporate this idea in his interpretation without permitting it to overwhelm or exhaust his exegesis of The Prince and the Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy.
Leo Strauss, 1978
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Discourses on Livy
Discourses on Livy is the founding document of modern republicanism, and Harvey C. Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov have provided the definitive English translation of this classic work.
Niccolò Machiavelli, 2009
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Machiavelli in the Making
In Machiavelli in the Making, the influential French scholar and public intellectual Claude Lefort introduces a wholly novel interpretation of Niccoló Machiavelli's oeuvre, revealing in the Florentine's thought a thoroughly modern concept ...
Claude Lefort, 2012
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The New Machiavelli: How to Wield Power in the Modern World
From a unique vantage point he gives brilliantly observed and witty accounts of the vanity of modern European princes' Sunday Times 'Anyone who wants an insider's account of what makes politicians tick should read this book' Peter Mandelson ...
Jonathan Powell, 2010
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The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli
With penetrating analyses of The Prince, Discourses on Livy, Art of War, Florentine Histories, and his plays and poetry, this book offers a vivid portrait of this extraordinary thinker as well as assessments of his place in Western thought ...
John M. Najemy, 2010
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Machiavelli: The Chief Works and Others
Praise for the 1965 edition "The publication of this handsome edition of all Machiavelli's major works, together with many of the secondary ones either previously un-translated or difficult to obtain, is an event of major importance for ...
Niccolò Machiavelli, Allan Gilbert, 1989
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The Art of Power: Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and the Making of ...
Offering a challenge to traditional political theory, this work provides the interpretations of Machiavelli's oeuvre and of Nietzsche's relationship to politics.
Diego A. von Vacano, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MACHIAVELLI»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Machiavelli is used in the context of the following news items.
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Nixon, upbeat sweetheart - Visalia Times-Delta
But it is worth remembering that Machiavelli wanted his prince to be good. Evan Thomas is the author of “Being Nixon: A Man Divided. «Visalia Times-Delta, Jul 15»
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Commedia Beauregard regularly performs plays translated from one language to another (A Klingon Christmas Carol, Machiavelli's The ... «Broadway World, Jul 15»
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A Win - Win Deal Iranian.com
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527). The 14th of July, 2015 will stand as an important and crucial point in modern Iran history. In the said date, Iran ... «Iranian, Jul 15»
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Management Changes Make Barclays PLC Investible Again - Yahoo …
... Sir Mike Rake presented as having done the dirty deed -- I suspect 'MacHiavelli' might actually be a better nickname for the new chairman. «Yahoo Finance UK, Jul 15»
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Nkrumahism, The Can Of Worms I Opened – Keynesian Economics …
And these are the people that Mr Kwarteng wants me to warm up to; to read their Machiavelli style political economics. I am sorry; I have ... «GhanaWeb, Jul 15»
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Inside the minds of CV cheats
The dictionary describes this trait as being or acting in accordance with the principles described in Machiavelli's 16th-century treatise The ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»
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Spike's fantasy 'Tut' says a lot about how we like our heroes
Machiavelli, a Florentine thinker who figures large as a character in both The Borgias on Showtime and in Starz's DaVinci's Demons, has ... «Philly.com, Jul 15»
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Editorial, July 19, 2015: Nixon: A lesson in presidential character
He “could be shifty and tricky; it is fair to describe Nixon as Machiavellian. But it is worth remembering that Machiavelli wanted his prince to be ... «Santa Cruz Sentinel, Jul 15»
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To walk or not to walk - Jos Buttler's honesty and cricket's most …
Then there is the cricketing Machiavelli, such as Nick Knight, the former England opener, who forwards the notion of 'selective walking'. «Sportskeeda, Jul 15»
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WILD COOT: Two bulls and a frog - Nation Newspaper, The
We should have followed what that master of tactics Machiavelli said. “Injuries must be committed all at once so that, being savoured less, they ... «Nation News, Jul 15»

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