Niccolò Machiavelli and His Times, Volume 4C. K. Paul & Company, 1883 |
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Page 342 - Veggio in Alagna entrar lo fiordaliso , E nel Vicario suo Cristo esser catto. Veggiolo un' altra volta esser deriso : Veggio rinnovellar l'aceto e '1 fele , E tra vivi ladroni essere anciso.
Page 395 - They start from the same conception as that of the "Prince"; some one man must be the founder of the State, and go forward relentlessly to his end. They then proceed to show how the people should possess itself of the government, render it strong and prosperous, and administer it by means of free institutions and morality. And here, with an inexhaustible fund of just, profound, and practical observations, the author lays the basis of a new science of statesmanship. We must, however, confine ourselves...
Page 176 - Creder che senza te per te contrasti Dio, standoti ozioso e ginocchioni, ha molti regni e molti stati guasti. E...
Page 304 - Madame, pour vous faire savoir comme se porte le reste de mon infortune, de toutes choses ne m'est demeuré que l'honneur et la vie qui est sauve.
Page 178 - Cantando dunque cerco dal cuor torre, E frenar quel dolor de' casi avversi , Cui dietro il pensier mio furioso corre; E come del servir gli anni sien persi , Come in fra rena si semini , ed acque , Sarà or la materia de...
Page 379 - Il respondit qu'il aimoit beaucoup mieux estre en enfer avec ces grands esprits, pour deviser avec eux des affaires d'estat, que d'estre avec cette vermine de ces belistres, qu'on luy avoit fait voir. Et à tant il mourut, et alla voir comme vont les affaires d'eslat de l'autre monde ». Lo JOCHER uel suo Allgemeines GelehrtenLexilton, (art.
Page 388 - ... than might be imagined from the very licentious language which, according to the custom of the day, he adopted in his letters and his plays. Towards his wife and children he showed unvarying affection to the last hour of his existence. But Machiavelli's real life was all in his intellect : therein lay the true source of his greatness. His predominating mental gift, and that in which he outstripped all his contemporaries, was a singular power of piercing to the innermost kernel of historic and...
Page 313 - Moron (h)a hablarme por grandes arodeos y ultimamente dezirme que, sy yo le prometia la fe de le tener secreto, que el me dyria y descubriria grandes cosas. Yo le dyxe" que lo ternya secreto y le di la £e".
Page 82 - Omnes nationes, quae vicinae sunt Soli, nimio calore siccatas, amplius quidem sapere, sed minus habere sanguinis dicunt : ac propterea constantiam ac fiduciam cominus non habere pugnandi, quia metuunt vulnera, qui se exiguum sanguinem habere noverunt. Contra, septemtrionales populi, remoti a Solis ardoribus, inconsultiores quidem, sed tamen, largo sanguine redundantes, sunt ad bella promptissimi.
Page 398 - Savonarola had predicted ; instead of seeking strength in a new conception of faith, she aimed at a recomposition of the idea of the State and the motherland. She saw in the sacrifice of all to the universal good the only possible way of political and moral redemption. The unity of the regenerated country would have inevitably led to the re-establishment of morality ; would have rekindled faith in public and private virtue, and discovered a method of sanctifying the purpose of life. This idea, vaguely...