Medievalists.net » Machiavelli http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Machiavelli and Botticelli Movies to Hit the Screen in 2016 http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/29/machiavelli-and-botticelli-movies-to-hit-the-screen-in-2016/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/29/machiavelli-and-botticelli-movies-to-hit-the-screen-in-2016/#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2015 16:55:00 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60689 Machiavelli and Botticelli are set to hit screens in 2016. We sat down to chat with Italian director, Lorenzo Raveggi about his two ambitious projects.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/29/machiavelli-and-botticelli-movies-to-hit-the-screen-in-2016/feed/ 0 CONFERENCES: Renaissance Drinking Culture and Renaissance Drinking Vessels http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/29/conferences-renaissance-drinking-culture-renaissance-drinking-vessels/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/29/conferences-renaissance-drinking-culture-renaissance-drinking-vessels/#comments Thu, 29 May 2014 15:21:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=49968 This paper took a closer look at Renaissance drinking vessels and drinking culture and examined the types of vessels commonly used in Italy and the Netherlands during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/09/machiavelli-graphic-novel/feed/ 0 Prophetic Statebuilding: Machiavelli and the Passion of the Duke http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/12/prophetic-statebuilding-machiavelli-passion-duke/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/12/prophetic-statebuilding-machiavelli-passion-duke/#comments Sat, 12 Apr 2014 21:29:12 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48928 My interpretation of Machiavelli’s use of Borgia highlights the biblical resonances of Machiavelli’s account of the rise and fall of this exemplary new prince—a prince whom both his subjects and the Florentine himself call by the exalted title “Duke Valentino.”

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/08/machiavelli-theories-on-liberty-religion-and-the-original-constitution/feed/ 0 How Machiavellian was Machiavelli? http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/25/how-machiavellian-was-machiavelli/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/25/how-machiavellian-was-machiavelli/#comments Fri, 26 Jul 2013 03:26:33 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42367 Professor Quentin Skinner gave a public lecture at the University of York, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the composition of Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/25/how-machiavellian-was-machiavelli/feed/ 0 Rule by Natural Reason: Late Medieval and early Renaissance conceptions of political corruption http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/17/rule-by-natural-reason-late-medieval-and-early-renaissance-conceptions-of-political-corruption/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/17/rule-by-natural-reason-late-medieval-and-early-renaissance-conceptions-of-political-corruption/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 04:05:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40601 This paper argues that, from about the eleventh century CE, a new and distinctive model of corruption accompanied the rediscovery and increased availability of a number of classical texts and ideals, particularly those of Cicero and the Roman Jurists.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/17/rule-by-natural-reason-late-medieval-and-early-renaissance-conceptions-of-political-corruption/feed/ 0 500-year-old arrest warrant for Machiavelli discovered http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/06/500-year-old-arrest-warrant-for-machiavelli-discovered/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/06/500-year-old-arrest-warrant-for-machiavelli-discovered/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2013 06:32:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39603 The original copy of a proclamation - exactly 500-years old - calling for the arrest of Niccolò Machiavelli has been discovered by a British historian.

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