New Philosopher

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Machiavelli was a diplomat, public official, and theorist of political power who rose to prominence in the Italian city-state of Florence at the turn of the 16th century. After his death in 1527, his name became a byword for evil. He was depicted or

All About History

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Hailed as the father of modern politics, Niccolò Machiavelli has long been synonymous with everything bad about the political sphere. His name, turned adjective as ‘Machiavellian’, conjures up images of a cunning, sly and manipulative figure, hell-be

Medieval Warfare Magazine

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Both show the broad and tidal river Scheldt, which gave Antwerp access to the North Sea, and then to the world: to the oceanic trade routes just opening to Asia, Africa, and America. The docks are crowded with ships waiting to unload spices from the

Stamp Collector

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Italian Fascism was rooted in the glories of the past. It harked back to the grandeur of the ancient Roman Empire and the cultural achievements of the Renaissance. And it hoped to cover the modern state in the same glory. The stamp programme was very

All About History

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1532, Italy The Prince is a political treatise written almost five centuries ago by Italian philosopher and diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli, offering guidance to princes and rulers on how to gain and maintain political power – even if it requires using

Guernica Magazine

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The poet on reviving Machiavelli for our times. The post James Sherry: Leadership is Magnetic as Power is Aphrodisiacal appeared first on Guernica.

Writer's Digest

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Enjoy some Midwestern hospitality at this intimate conference known for its regional flair. WHEN: May 10–11, 2019. WHERE: Best Western Premier Waterfront Hotel & Convention Center, Oshkosh, Wis. PRICE: $75. Fee includes Saturday lunch. A special co

All About History

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Niccolo Machiavelli has a well-earned reputation as a political thinker and strategist, but throughout his life it would seem that the Medici family often held the upper hand over him. In fact his numerous interactions with them, directly or indirect

BBC History Magazine

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On his deathbed at his farm outside of Florence in 1527, the politician, diplomat and writer Niccolò Machiavelli is said to have turned to his grieving friends and told them of a dream he had just had. In it, he had seen two groups of people. The fir

The Atlantic

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The political reality is that a crisis caused by someone else in a faraway country may have saved Britain’s prime minister from a crisis caused by himself at home.

The Writer

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How can we be more culturally sensitive in these challenging times? When is it OK to write about experiences that aren’t our own? These are two of the questions that international faculty members and attendees at the San Miguel Writers’ Conference &

Literary Hub

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For many people, Latin is useless. I won’t enter into a discussion on the meaning of “utility,” a concept with variations and stratifications that are centuries in the making, and which itself merits an entire book. What I will say here, however, is

PRIVATE GAME WILDLIFE RANCHING

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The use of misinformation to shape opinions and actions is a practice as old as politics. Plato argued that falsehoods had a rightful place in politics insofar as they were necessary for the good of the state. In his canonical work The Prince the Ita

TIME

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JOHN LANCHESTER’S LAST NOVEL, Capital, published in 2012, was a Dickensian tour of London in the era of global capital—but before crises of xenophobia and worsening climate change came crashing down. The British journalist and novelist’s latest, The

The Paris Review

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Leonid Pasternak, The Passion of Creation. 1892 First, a word about the traditional feud between poets and fiction writers. I wish to acknowledge, up front, that that feud does not exist. Not traditionally. Conditions in the wild are very unfavorable

The Millions

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The Aspen Words Literary Prize was awarded yesterday to Tayari Jones for An American Marriage, at a ceremony in New York City. The prize, which operates out of the Aspen Institute, awards $35,000 annually to “an influential work of fiction that illum

Poets & Writers

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Feedback from readers Kevin Larimer’s “Maybe This Is Enough for Now” (July/August 2020), calmed the ruthless self-critic who kept nagging me for not using quarantine time to write. After reading the Editor’s Note, I recalled the 2019 Kauai Writers Co

Writer's Digest

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Learn how your writing can create change in the world at this long-running conference in the City by the Bay. WHEN: Sept. 14, 2019. WHERE: First Unitarian Universalist Church & Center, San Francisco. PRICE: $199. WHAT MAKES THE CONFERENCE UNIQUE: I

Literary Hub

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“Allen marries several distinct genres to produce an insight into what it means to be a person with a psychiatric diagnosis—as opposed to a novelist toying with the boundaries of thought … Meta-biographical writing is at such a peak of sophistication

The Australian Women's Weekly

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Leah Swann, 49, was born in Melbourne where she remembers a childhood “full of daydreaming, playing outside, storytelling, drawing and reading”. She was always filling notebooks with stories and says over time “it dawned on me I was a writer”. A volu

Writing Magazine

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The Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry in Translation invites entries of poems in any language that have been translated into English. In the open category the prizes are £1,000, £500 and £250, and a £9 entry fee. There is also a Youth Prize and a Spot

NPR

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The novelists, poets and playwrights won Wednesday partly for their work so far, but also for the promise they've shown. If previous winners are an indication, it's a promise they're likely to keep.

Literary Hub

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It is rare for a literary critic to remain alive for readers decades after his death—even rarer than for a novelist or a poet. Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) belonged to what Randall Jarrell called “the age of criticism,” a time when the analysis and ju

Tatler Philippines

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A woman of substance and as a novelist of great calibre are just a few of the words that have been used to describe Gina Apostol, the award-winning author of Insurrecto― a novel that tackles the famed Balangiga Massacre as the basis for two conflicti

Literary Hub

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Mamta Chaudhry arrived at the University of Florida to begin her master’s degree program as a broadcast journalism student. “To people in Florida, Calcutta seemed so exotic, but to me Gainesville was so exotic.” Chaudhry shares her journey from her l

The Millions

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One can hope that we might draw lessons from the Vietnam War’s legacy of near-erasure of non-white experiences; that the growth of veterans writing workshops and anthologies will represent to future generations a more complete picture of The Forever

Literary Hub

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In post 11/8 America, the citizenry became more aware, more active, more willing to submit themselves to self-examination. Yet while the world of journals both print (Freeman’s), and online (Guernica, Lit Hub, Electric Literature), have increased the

Poets & Writers

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“I see these stories as quiet rebellions, flawed protests,” says Sara Lippmann about Jerks (Mason Jar Press, March 2022), her second story collection. The characters in Jerks search for a release from the confines of modern life—the demands of mother

Literary Hub

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It’s very strange to take a full year off of doing something that you’ve been doing for over 15 years, knowing that you’ll return to it but are utterly detached from it in the meantime. For me, that is teaching literature at the college level. Going

The Atlantic

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Highlights from 12 months of interviews with writers about their craft and the authors they love