Niccolo Machiavelli is best known for The Prince, his guidebook on ruling an Italian city-state. But for a long time after his death, Machiavelli’s Art of War was better known and more influential ...
Forget Blair and Brown. Would the characters in the coalition have been cloak-and-dagger enough for the Renaissance Italian strategist? In his portrait by Santi di Tito he smiles gently, a friendly ...
Art experts are studying an unsigned painting they suspect could be a portrait of Renaissance statesman Niccolò Machiavelli by none other than Leonardo da Vinci. A letter written 145 years ago and ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Writing in the late 1530s, the great Florentine historian Francesco Guicciardini claimed that “Italy had never ...
It's easy to dismiss the Machiavellian approach to running organisations in today's kinder, gentler world of new age, team-based management. But some management experts like James O' Toole, Senior ...
The term “Orwellian” has always struck me as curiously Orwellian — a mild example of doublespeak that ties an author’s good name to the dystopia he so memorably depicted. (See also “Dickensian” and ...
Niccolo Machiavelli is best known for The Prince, his guidebook on ruling an Italian city-state. But for a long time after his death, Machiavelli’s Art of War was better known and more influential ...
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