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This instalment of the column presents another great classic of the Italian literature, a well-know and in depth studied book that still finds its place in school curricula and can spark interesting conversation. This work is perhaps less consolidated and straightforward in our literary landscape because it has in fact generated criticism and contr...

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APRIL 16, 2015 (06:00 PM) Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011Book Presentation - Machiavelli: A Portrait (Harvard University Press, 2015) by Christopher Celenza, Johns Hopkins University   "Machiavellian"—used to describe the ruthless cunning of the power-obsessed and the pitiless—is never m...

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On the 500th anniversary of the completion of The Prince, the Italian Cultural Institute of Washington, D.C. and the Department of Italian at Georgetown University are proud to present a symposium on Machiavelli's enduring legacy. Specialists in literature, political science, and religious history will illustrate the relevance of The Prince within...

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"The Prince" is one of the most influential books published in Western literature, and people have been getting it wrong for five hundred years. British philosopher Bertrand Russell, for example, dismissed Machiavelli's canonical work as "a handbook for gangsters." A typical misconception, according to Giuliano Amato, a former prime minister...

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Fondazione Azzurra hosted a dinner in celebration of the conference "From Earthly Pleasures to Princely Glories in the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds", which took place at the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies to honor the quincentenary of Machiavelli's The Prince.   The Italian winery Le Corte dei Farfensi, owned by Antonell...

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Thursday, December 3rd, 6:30 P.M. - Italian American Museum - 155 Mulberry Street - (Corner of Grand and Mulberry Streets) - New York, NY 10013   Historian William J. Connell, holder of the Joseph M. and Geraldine C. La Motta Chair in Italian Studies at Seton Hall University, will discuss his recent book Machiavelli nel R...

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La mostra Il Principe di Niccolò Machiavelli e il suo Tempo inizia a Washington il suo tour internazionale. Dopo il successo al Complesso Monumentale del Vittoriano la scorsa primavera, l'esposizione arriva, grazie alla partnership con Eni, negli Usa in occasione dell'Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti, di cui l'azienda è corporate ambas...

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