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20 de ago. de 2020 · Maquiavelo, hallándose en Lucca, se dedicó a cumplir con su encomienda y, de paso, se dio a la tarea de investigar la vida de un antiguo condotiero de esa ciudad: Castruccio Castracani.
Castruccio Castracani 1284-1328 It appears, dearest Zanobi and Luigi, a wonderful thing to those who have considered the matter, that all men, or the larger number of them, who have performed great deeds in the world, and excelled all others in their day, have had their birth and beginning in baseness and obscurity; or have been aggrieved by Fortune in some outrageous way.
Life of Castruccio Castracani is accompanied by selected passages from Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories to give a powerful, rounded portrait of the abandoned child who rose to become the most powerful man in Tuscany. Niccolò Machiavelli was a prominent Florentine politician and writer, whose greatest work, The Prince, has ensured his ...
Life of Castruccio Castracani. Set amid the ferment and factionalism of early modern Italy, Life of Castruccio Castracani is a vivid and action-packed account of the rise and fall of a very "Machiavellian" prince. A charismatic warlord of the early 14th century, Castruccio Castracani came from humble beginnings as a foundling, and ended his ...
Castruccio Castracani quickly seeks revenge; through a treaty with a guard officer at the gates of Serravalle Pistoiese, 400 horses secretly enter the castle at night. The castellan Manfredi Tedesco is killed in the fortress. Castracani then leaves Montecarlo and reaches the area in the morning.
Castruccio Castracani degli Antelminelli (auch Interminelli, Interminegli; * 29.März 1281 in Lucca; † 3. September 1328) war ein spätmittelalterlicher Condottiere, der sich durch politisches und militärisches Geschick als Herzog von Lucca etablieren konnte und seiner Stadt zeitweise die Vorrangstellung unter den Städten der Toskana verschaffte, außerdem wesentlichen Anteil hatte an ...
Castracani, Castruccio. Castruccio Castracani (kästrōōt´chō kästräkä´nē), 1281–1328, duke of Lucca. His early life was spent in exile. After his return he was made captain (1316), then lord of Lucca (1320) for life. In the political wars that plagued Italy in the 14th cent. he led the Ghibellines of all Tuscany (see Guelphs and ...
