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Archive for February, 2010
A book launch is a scary thing. Even though I am serializing Machiavelli and publishing on the Web, it is still structurally a book: it has a narrative arc, chapters, pages, and other elements associated with books. And yet I’m adding hypertext commentary beneath the pages, footnotes and links that wouldn’t be included in a [...]
A timeline of events in Italy and in Machiavelli’s life
By Don on February 10th, 2010Posted In: blog
1469 (May 3) – Niccolò Machiavelli is born
1475 – Bernardo Machiavelli receives Livy’s History of Rome from the printer Niccolò Tedesco o Alamanno as compensation for creating the index for the volume.
1478 – Pazzi conspiracy. An attempt by the Pazzi family to kill Lorenzo and Guiliano di Medici and usurp power fails as Lorenzo (later [...]
