His operatic works include two of the most successful musical comedies of the eighteenth century, Il filosofo di campagna ( The Country Philosopher ), set by Galuppi ( 1752 ) and La buona figliuola ( The Good Girl ), set by Niccolò Piccinni ( 1760 ).

The most important translator of Galen's works into Latin was Niccolò di Deoprepio da Reggio, who spent several years working on Galen.

Machiavelli was born in Florence, Italy, the first son and third child of attorney, Bernardo di Niccolò Machiavelli, and his wife, Bartolomea di Stefano Nelli.

* Martelli, Mario ( 2004 ), “ Tracce d ` una preistoria dell ` Arte della Guerra di Niccolò Machiavelli ”, Interpres, XXIII, pp. 256 – 8.

* Martelli, Mario ( 1974 ), “ L ´ altro Niccolò di Bernardo Machiavelli ”, Rinascimento, XIV, pp. 39 – 100.

by Mario Martelli and Nicoletta Marcelli, Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Niccolò Machiavelli, Salerno Editrice, Roma.

by Francesco Bausi, Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Niccolò Machiavelli, II vol.

* Boscassi Angelo, Il Violino di Niccolò Paganini conservato nel Palazzo Municipale di Genova, Fratelli Pagano, 1909.

The recipients of these letters included Philippe de Cabassoles, bishop of Cavaillon ; Ildebrandino Conti, bishop of Padua ; Cola di Rienzo, tribune of Rome ; Francesco Nelli, priest of the Prior of the Church of the Holy Apostles in Florence ; and Niccolò di Capoccia, a cardinal and priest of Saint Vitalis.

Because of his influence, Cimarosa obtained a scholarship at the musical institute of Santa Maria di Loreto in Naples, where he remained for eleven years, chiefly studying with great masters of the old Italian school ; Niccolò Piccinni, Antonio Sacchini, and other musicians of repute are mentioned among his teachers.

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi ( circa 1386 – December 13, 1466 ), also known as Donatello, was an early Renaissance Italian painter and sculptor from Florence.

Donatello was the son of Niccolò di Betto Bardi, who was a member of the Florentine Wool Combers Guild, and was born in Florence, most likely in the year 1386.

* Niccolò di Segna

* Niccolò di Bonaccorso

* Niccolò di Ser Sozzo

* Andrea di Niccolò

The enthusiasm for operas based on Ariosto continued into the Classical era and beyond with such examples as Niccolò Piccinni's Roland ( 1778 ), Haydn's Orlando paladino ( 1782 ), Méhul's Ariodant ( 1799 ) and Simon Mayr's Ginevra di Scozia ( 1801 ).

Three years later he was transferred to the Conservatorio di Santa Maria della Pietà dei Turchini, where he was trained under Niccolò Fago, having Don Giacomo Sarcuni and Andrea Basso, as second maestri, that is, singing teachers ( maestri di canto ).

His mother died some time before 1380, and his father, Niccolò di Giovanni Massi, retired to a monastery in the same year, where he died in 1385.

The first stage was scarcely begun by Niccolò Tribolo before he died in 1550, then was continued by Bartolomeo Ammanati, with contributions in planning from Giorgio Vasari, who laid out the grottos, and in sculpture by Bernardo Buontalenti.

Other painters represented include ; Jacopo del Casentino (" Madonna and Child "), Bernardo Zenale, Niccolò di Pietro Gerini (" 4 Crowned Saints Before Diocletan "), Filippino Lippi, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Berthe Morisot, Max Beckmann, Juan Gris, and Georges Braque.

Beatrice had been carefully educated, and availed herself of her position as mistress of one of the most splendid courts of Italy to gather around her learned men, poets and artists, such as Niccolò da Correggio, Bernardo Castiglione, Bramante, Leonardo da Vinci, and many others.

At that point, literature became his chief occupation instead of art, and he produced two historical novels, Niccolò dei Lapi and Ettore Fieramosca, in imitation of Walter Scott, and with pronounced political tendencies, his object being to point out the evils of foreign domination in Italy and to reawaken national feeling.

Besides a variety of newspaper articles and pamphlets, d ' Azeglio's chief works are the two novels Ettore Fieramosca ( 1833 ) and Niccolò dei Lapi ( 1841 ), and a volume of autobiographical memoirs entitled I Miei Ricordi, ( D ' Azeglio Memoirs-p. 1867 ) a work published after his death, in 1866, but unfortunately incomplete.

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Agathocles was cited as from the lowest, most abject condition of life and as an example of “ those who by their crimes come to be princes ” in Chapter VIII of Niccolò Machiavelli ’ s treatise on politics, The Prince ( 1513 ).

Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism ( the 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and the 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche ); satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).

* Niccolò Machiavelli ( 1469 – 1527 )

Niccolò Machiavelli cites Cesare's dependence on the good will of the Papacy, under the control of his father, to be the principal weakness of his rule.

Niccolò Machiavelli met the Duke on a diplomatic mission in his function as Secretary of the Florentine Chancellery.

* The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

The Education of a Christian Prince was published in 1516, three years after Niccolò Machiavelli ’ s The Prince.

In political and historical writing Niccolò Machiavelli and his friend Francesco Guicciardini initiated a new realistic style of writing.

A second individual of unusually acute insight was Niccolò Machiavelli, whose prescriptions for Florence's regeneration under strong leadership have often been seen as a legitimization of political expediency and even malpractice.

* Niccolò Machiavelli and other Florentines preferred the version spoken by ordinary people in their own times.

To improve the well-being of her subjects she studied architecture, agriculture, and industry, and followed the principles that Niccolò Machiavelli had set forth for rulers in his book The Prince.

He also had a scheme for diverting the flow of the Arno River, a project on which Niccolò Machiavelli also worked.

* Il Principe ( 1974 ) ( text by Niccolò Machiavelli ) for 2 mixed choruses, 8 winds, 3 horns, tuba, bass guitar, piano

* 1469 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and author ( d. 1527 )

Believing that people were motivated by self-interest, Niccolò Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513 as advice for the city of Florence, Italy.

The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli ( 1963 ), a standard scholarly biography

The Life and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli ( 2 vol 1892 ), good older biography ; online Google edition vol 1 ; online Google edition vol 2

( 2011 ) Niccolò Machiavelli: History, Power, and Virtue.

Niccolò Machiavelli ( 2005 ) online edition

* Machiavelli, Niccolò.