tailieunhanh - History of Florence and Italy

Niccolo Machiavelli, the first great Italian historian, and one of the most eminent political writers of any age or country, was born at Florence, May 3, 1469. He was of an old though not wealthy Tuscan family, his father, who was a jurist, dying when Niccolo was sixteen years old. We know nothing of Machiavelli's youth and little about his studies. He does not seem to have received the usual humanistic education of his time, as he knew no Greek.[*] The first notice of Machiavelli is in 1498 when we find him holding the office of Secretary in the second Chancery of the Signoria, which. | History of Florence and Italy 1 History of Florence and Italy Project Gutenberg Etext History of Florence and by Machiavelli 4 in our series by Machiavelli Copyright laws are changing all over the world be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before posting these files Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts Etexts Readable By Both Humans and By Computers Since 1971 These Etexts Prepared By Hundreds of Volunteers and Donations Information on contacting Project Gutenberg to get Etexts and further information is included below. We need your donations. HISTORY OF FLORENCE AND OF THE AFFAIRS OF ITALY FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE DEATH OF LORENZO THE MAGNIFICENT by Niccolo Machiavelli January 2001 Etext 2464 Project Gutenberg Etext History of Florence and by Machiavelli This file should be named or Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER Etext prepared by John Bickers jbickers@ and Dagny dagnyj@ Project Gutenberg Etexts are usually created from multiple editions all of which are in the Public Domain in the United States unless a copyright notice is included. Therefore we usually do NOT keep any of these books in compliance with any particular paper edition. We are now trying to release all our books one month in advance of the official release dates leaving time for better editing. Please note neither this list nor its contents are final till midnight of the last day of the month of any such announcement. The official release date of all Project Gutenberg Etexts is at Midnight Central Time of the last day of the stated month. A preliminary version may often be posted for suggestion comment and editing by those who wish to