Macchevuole
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Niccolo Machiavelli: (1469 – 1527) Florentine political philosopher, musician, poet, and playwright. Through his book The Princd, Machiavelli was aa key figure in realist political theory, crucial to European statecraft, Machiavelli was one of the first people to study objectively--with what we might now call a scientific attitude--politics and government as they are actually practiced.
- macchia (Italian): spot, stainy
- vuole (Italian) wants, wishes
- ma che vuole! (Italian): what dies he want
- manchevole (Italian): inadequate, insufficient