Machiavelli (was Re: What is that gesture called?)

[Stephen Goranson]

typo: guerra
quoting Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu>:

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> Niccolo Machiavelli published his Arte della guera in his own lifetime, in
> Florence, in 1521. I quoted from the Ellis Farnewoth translation.
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> Stephen Goranson
> Quoting "James A. Landau" <JJJRLandau at AOL.COM>:
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> > While I have your attention (if I still do), an aside to Stephen Goranson:
> > Machiavelli's most famous work (he was also a playwright) was "Il
> Principe",
> > a
> > title best translated into English as "The Ruler".  "The Art of War" was
> by
> > Clausewitz (actually compiled by his widow after his death.)
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