Machiavelli and the Rape of Lucretia, by Yves Winter Source: Abstract: ... Unlike his Roman and Renaissance sources, Machiavelli downplays the rape and suicide, denying the causal role in the revolution

Essays on the Literary Works, edited by Vickie B. Sullivan Introduction Some scholars see Machiavelli as having a tragic view of life where fortune has the final say: Hanna Pitkin, Wayne A. Rebhorn, Giorgio

Michelle Clarke, "Curing Virtue: Epicureanism and Erotic Fantasy in Machiavelli's Mandragola" Michelle Clarke's paper: Like Ovid, Machiavelli embraces the hedonism that motivates Epicureanism

Niccolò di Bernardo dei writes about Agathocles: "However, his terrible cruelty and inhumanity do not allow him to be glorified as one of the most outstanding men... One may ask oneself how it happened

Niccolò di Bernardo dei writes about Agathocles: "However, his terrible cruelty and inhumanity do not allow him to be glorified as one of the most outstanding men... One may ask oneself how it happened

This is my entry to @galenkp’s Weekend Engagement #142. Would you rather be loved or feared? The question echoed the famous passage in Niccolo Machiavelli’s Chapter XVII of The Prince (1532). In that chapter,

Niccolò di Bernardo dei writes about Agathocles: "However, his terrible cruelty and inhumanity do not allow him to be glorified as one of the most outstanding men... One may ask oneself how it happened

In the 25th chapter of The Prince, Machiavelli considers how much fortune influences human affairs and whether or not it can be resisted. He concludes that for the most part, while fortune varies, men

Photo by @filoriologo I have recently reread "The Prince" by Niccolo Machiavelli, and before telling you a little about my interpretation of the text, I want to tell you about my initial motivation

and how circumstances may conspire to confound your best efforts to do so

Some thoughts on how to stay fortunate in times of change

“Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.” Niccolò Machiavelli America's existence was secured through combat, not once, but twice, in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. These

Just about every morning for the last five years I have read the daily meditation in The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman. I blogged about a couple of the readings here ("You Don't

A quotation from Ted Hughes' The Goddess of Complete Being jumped out at me...

I am trying to write a post everyday in August. Rather than report step counts, I decided to fill in an outline of political history. My goal is to show that the left/right originated from the same place.

A friend of mine told me she had been ‘unfriended’ by a long time friend who called her a troll. I wrote back: "She works for the schools. She has known you for some time? And yet she calls you a

"A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not

Writing on social media is like walking barefoot on pins and needles.

There are testimonies that both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama (Barry Soetoro) are gay. Cathy O´Brien (Clinton), Larry Sinclair and Mia Marie Pope (Soetoro), then there is also Joan Rivers who died by

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised #Machiavelli