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Machiavelli, Niccolò
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A. Life and careerThe Florentine official and diplomat and Italian political writer and poet Niccolò M. was born on May 3, 1469 at Florence, where he also died on June 21, 1527. His father was the notary Bernardo Machiavelli, who wrote a diary (
Libro di ricordi, 1474–1487). After studying the
trivium (grammar, rhetoric, dialectics) via the
Ars minor/Ars maior of the Late Antique Latin grammarian Aelius Donatus, and parts of the
quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy), he gained early knowledge of ancient (e.g. Aristotle, Cicero, Ptolemy) and medieval…
Source:
Brill’s New Pauly Supplements II - Volume 8 : The Reception of Antiquity in Renaissance Humanism
Date:
2016-11-24
