This timeline lists important events relevant to the age of the some notable people people.
Timeline edit
(Dates in square brackets are conjectural)
00s edit
- 1469 - Niccolò Machiavelli born May 3 in Florence
- 1775 - Jane Austen born December 16 in Steventon Rectory, Hampshire, England
10s edit
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- 1481 - With his brother Totto, Machiavelli begins at the school of Paolo da Ronciglione.[1]
20s edit
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- 1498: Machiavelli is confirmed by the Great Council as second chancellor of the Republic; Machiavelli is elected secretary to the "Ten of War"(La Guerra dei Dieci), the body that manages Florence's military matters.[2]; On behalf of the Ten of War, Machiavelli is sent on his first diplomatic mission to Piombino.
30s edit
31 edit
- 1500 - Machiavelli is sent on a six-month mission to King Louis XII of France. In France he also meets the Georges d'Amboise Cardinal of Rouen
32 edit
- 1501 - Machiavelli marries Marietta Corsini.
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- 1503 - Machiavelli publishes Description of the Manner in which Duke Valentio put Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, Lord Pagola and the Duke of Gravina to Death (Italian: Descrizione del modo tenuto dal Duca Valentino nell' ammazzare Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, il Signor Pagalo e il Duca di Gravina Orsini); Discourse about the Provision of Money (Discorso sopra la provisione del danaro), and On the method of dealing with the Rebellious Peoples of Val di Chiana (Del modo di trattare i popoli della Valdichiana ribellati).
- Machiavelli is sent on mission to Pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena and on mission to the Papal court at Rome.[3]
35 edit
- 1504 - Machiavelli's poem; The First Decade (Italian: Decennale primo)[4] is published. Machiavelli travels on his second mission to the court of Louis XII.[3]
36 edit
- 1506 - Machiavelli publishes Discourse on Florentine Military Preparation (Italian: Discorso sopra il riformare lo stato di Firenze).[5]; Machiavelli's second mission to the Papal Court follows Pope Julius II from Viterbo to Orvieto, Perugia, Urbino, Cesena, and Imola.[3]
38 edit
- 1507 -Machiavelli sent on mission to the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximillian I in the County of Tyrol.
39 edit
- 1508 - Machiavelli publishes Report on Germany (Italian: Rapporto delle cose dell' Alemagna).
40s edit
40 edit
- 1509 - Machiavelli publishes Report on Germany and the Emperor (Discorso sopra le cose della Magna e sopra lo imperatore); publishes the poem, The Second Decade (Decennale secondo); an update to Machiavelli's earlier work The First Decade (Decennale Primo) is published.
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- 1510 - Machiavelli travels on his third mission to the court of Louis XII.[3]
- 1775 - Jane Austen dies December 16 in Steventon Rectory, Hampshire, England
Working edit
42
- September: Machiavelli's fourth diplomatic mission to the court of Louis XII.[3]
43 [After April 1512]
- Description of German Affairs (Italian: Ritratto delle cose della Magna).[6]
- Description of French Affairs (Italian: Ritratto delle cose di Franca).[6]
- November: Machiavelli is ousted from the Chancery and sentenced to a years confinement within Florentine territory.[6]
- February: Machiavelli is tried for conspiracy, tortured and imprisoned.
- March–April: After his release Machiavelli retires to his farm at Sant'Andrea in Percussina, seven miles south of Florence.
- March: The papal conclave elects Giovanni de' Medici as, Pope Leo X.[7]
44
- July: Machiavelli drafts The Prince (Italian: Il Principe).[6]
45
- Discourse or Dialogue on Our Language (Italian: Discorso o dialogo intorno alla nostra lingua).[6]
1513
- Machiavelli enters a discussion group – interested in literature and politics – meeting at Orti Oricellari, in Florence. He starts writing Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livy (Italian: Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio), a commentary on the first ten books of Livy's History of Rome.
[1515–1520]
- Writes the novella Belfagor arcidiavolo[6] (published with Machiavelli's collected works in 1549).
Circa 1516
- Manuscript copies of The Prince begin to circulate in and beyond Florence.[6]
[1517 or 1518]
- Machiavelli's version of Apuleius' The Golden Ass (Italian: 'L'asino d'oro), a satirical poem of eight chapters, written in terza rima. The poem concerns the theme of metamorphosis, and contains autobiographical, grotesque, and allegorical episodes.
1518
- Writes a book on military organisation, The Art of War (Italian: Dell' Arte della guerra) and The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca (La vita di Castruccio Castracani da Luca), as well as a Summary of Lucca's system of government (Sommario delle cosse della città di Lucca). He is commissioned to write the history of Florence by Cardinal Giulio de' Medici (later elected as Pope Clement VII, in the Papal conclave, 1523).[6]
50s edit
[1519 or 1520]
- Discourse on the Florentine Affairs After the Death of Lorenzo (Discorso delle cose fiorentine dopo la morte di Lorenzo).
1521
- The Art of War is published.
1522
- Advice to Raffaello Girolami (Memoriale a Raffaello Girolami)
- Cardinal Adrian Florensz is elected Pope as Adrian VI.
1523
- Cardinal Giulio de' Medici is elected Pope as Clement VII.
[1524–1525]
1525
- Visits Rome to present his finished Florentine Histories (Italian:Istorie fiorentine) to Pope Clement. Machiavelli's satirical play The Mandrake (La Mandragola) is performed and acclaimed in Venice,[9] which he later visits on a mission to settle a trade dispute for the Wool Guild of Florence.[9]
1526
- Report on the Fortifications of Florence (Relazione di una visita fatta per fortificare Firenze).
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- 1527 - Machiavelli dies June 21 (age 58), and is buried in the basilica of Santa Croce, Florence.
After death edit
- 1531–1532 Machiavelli - Posthumous publication of The Prince, Discourses on Livy, and Florentine Histories.
References edit
- ^ Grafton 2003, p. ix.
- ^ "Niccoló Machiavelli". Great Minds Machiavelli biography. Institute for the Study of Western Civilization. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
- ^ a b c d e Grafton 2003, p. x.
- ^ Wooton 1994, p. 37.
- ^ Germino 1972, p. 24.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Grafton 2003, p. xi.
- ^ Creighton 1887.
- ^ Falco 2004, p. 334.
- ^ a b Grafton 2003, p. xii.
Bibliography edit
- Creighton, Mandell (1887). A History of the Papacy During the Period of the Reformation Vol. IV: The Italian Princes, 1464—1518. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Falco, Maria J., ed. (2004). Feminist Interpretations of Niccolò Machiavelli. Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0-271-02389-2.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Germino, Dante (1972). Machiavelli to Marx : Modern Western Political Thought. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-28850-5.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Grafton, Anthony (2003). The Prince; Introduction by Anthony Grafton (25 ed.). Penguin Classics. ISBN 978-0-14-044915-0.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Wootton, David (1994). Selected Political Writings of Niccolò Machiavelli. Hackett Publishing. ISBN 978-0-87220-247-4.
External links edit
- "Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age". museumofconceptualart.com.