Arte de gobernar maquiavelo biography

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As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolo Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Prince, his tough-minded, pragmatic handbook on how power really works, made his name notorious and has remained controversial ever since. How can a leader be strong and decisive, yet still inspire loyalty in his followers? When is it necessary to break the rules? Is it better to be feared than loved? Examining regimes and their rulers the world over and throughout history, from Roman Emperors to renaissance Popes, from Hannibal to Cesare di Borgia, Machievalli answers all these questions in a work of realpolitik that still has shrewd political lessons for modern times. Tim Parks's acclaimed contemporary translation renders Machiavelli's pointed original into language that feels as alarming and enlightening as when it was first written. His introduction discusses Machiavelli's life and reputation, and explores the historical background to the work.
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La vida de Castruccio Castracani (en italiano: Vita di Castruccio Castracani) es una obra sobre la vida del condotiero Castruccio Castracani, escrita durante una embajada​ en la ciudad de Lucca, de la que procedía Castruccio, por Nicolás Maquiavelo en 1520 y dedicada a sus amigos Zanobi Boundelmonte y Luigi Alamanni.

Dualidad en el contenido de la obra

Existe una discusión entre si la obra es de carácter historio-biográfico o una novela que difiere de la realidad histórica en la que Maquiavelo pretende a través de los hechos narrados dejar una enseñanza.

De cualquier forma, alterando tanto los hechos sobre una figura reconocida por sus contemporáneos, Maquiavelo querría que su obra fuese leída como una novela ejemplar de las virtudes necesarias en un príncipe para gobernar.

Historia

Castruccio Castracani nació en Lucca, en el seno de la familia Antelminelli; por su filiación gibelina debió exiliarse de Lucca. Residió en Inglaterra, de donde tuvo que exiliarse nuevamente (esta vez a Francia) por haber matado a un cortesano durante un duelo.

Retorna a Italia en 1304 y vuelve a involucrarse en las luchas políticas de dicho país. Se alinea con la familia Visconti de Milán y participa en la victoria gibelina de Montecatini en 1315.

El condotiero Uguccione, señor de Pisa recela del poder de Castracani y lo encarcela; sin embargo -tras una revuelta popular- es liberado y nombrado señor de la ciudad. A partir de este ascenso, comienza a conquistar varias ciudad

The year 2013 marks the quincentenary of Niccolò Machiavelli’s Il Principe, one of the most widely read political writings of all time. The Italian Collections at Cambridge University Library wish to celebrate this anniversary by drawing attention to some of the early and fine editions of the work itself and to a sampling of the extensive holdings of recent scholarship.

• Early editions and translations
• Anti-Machiavellism
• Recent scholarship

Early editions and translations

The Prince was not printed until 1532, when editions were produced at Rome and Florence. The earliest edition represented among the holdings of the University Library is that produced in Venice by the famous Aldine press in 1540 (click here to see the record).

The second earliest edition in the Library's holdings (see its record here) is a false imprint from 1584, purporting to have been issued at Palermo by the heirs of Antoniello degli Antonielli. In fact, it was printed at London by John Wolfe. It has been suggested by Bertelli* that Wolfe might have produced this edition with a view to supplying readers in Italy, where the work had been put on the Index librorum prohibitorum in 1559. But it is more likely, given the almost universal condemnation of the Prince and its political maxims throughout sixteenth-century Europe, that Wolfe was simply concealing his own responsibility for the edition in order to turn a profit while keeping himself out of trouble.

It was to be more than 50 years before the first English translation would be published. This version, by Edward Dacres (who had translated Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy a few years earlier), appeared in 1640, at a moment of high political tension, as Charles I’s ‘personal rule’ was beginning to crumble (see the record here). It was reissued several times in the 1660s before being supplanted by a new translation by Henry Nevile, which appeared in an edition of Machiavelli’s complete works (see Qq*.1.179(C), Acton.a.51.