Machiavelli

[mak-ee-uh-vel-ee, mah-kyah-vel-lee]

noun

1. Niccolò di Bernardo 1469–1527, Italian statesman, political philosopher, and author.

Machiavelli

/ ˌmækɪəˈvɛlɪ /

noun

1. Niccolò (nikkoˈlɔ). 1469–1527, Florentine statesman and political philosopher; secretary to the war council of the Florentine republic (1498–1512). His most famous work is Il Principe ( The Prince, 1532)

Example Sentences

Last month, a professor and a prominent alum were sharing a ride to Boston for a weekend seminar about Machiavelli.

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The cast of Renaissance characters is also large and somewhat ungainly, populated with outsize historical players that include Michelangelo, Savonarola, Raphael, Niccolò Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia, various popes, assorted Medicis and many more.

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As Machiavelli warned, the ruler must not be taken in by flatterers.

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Fans can also hit the other Machiavelli bistro that opened in downtown Edmonds in December.

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So many deaths were inflicted, wrote the Italian philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli later, that “the streets were filled with limbs of men.”

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