Macchevuole

• Niccolo Machiavelli: (1469 – 1527) Florentine political philosopher, musician, poet, and playwright. Through his book The Prince, Machiavelli was a 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.

• macchie (Italian): spots, stains

• vuole (Italian) wants, wishes

• • ma che vuole! (Italian): what do you expect!

• manchevole (Italian): inadequate, insufficient