Niccolò’s Smile (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Maurizio Viroli
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1469-1527
- Setting: Primarily northern Italy, particularly Florence
- Principal Characters: Niccolò Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia, Biagio Buonaccorsi, Pope Clement VII, Francesco Guicciardini, Pope Leo X, Pier Soderini, Francesco Vettori
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Fifteenth century, Sixteenth century, Italy or Italians, Diplomacy or diplomats
- Locales: Florence, Italy, Italy
Maurizio Viroli was born in Forli, Italy, and received a degree in philosophy from the University of Bologna and a Ph.D. in social and political sciences at the European University Institute in Florence. He is the author of numerous works on political theory including Machiavelli (1998). He taught at the New School for Social Research, Georgetown University, and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa before becoming a professor of politics at Princeton University.
In his famous essay “The Originality of Machiavelli,” the late Isaiah Berlin remarked that there is...
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