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La vida de Castruccio Castracani, un líder militar italiano del siglo XIV, ha sido objeto de estudio y reflexión por parte de muchos filósofos a lo largo de los años. Uno de ellos es Nicolás Maquiavelo, quien en su obra "La vida de Castruccio Castracani" ofrece una visión profunda y detallada de la vida y las acciones de este personaje histórico.
Castruccio Castracani was one of those men; like the others, he had neither a happy nor a renowned birth, as will be clear in the narration of the course of his life. Having discovered in this biography many things that are truly exemplary concerning the power of ingenuity and of Fortune, I thought I should recall it to the memory of men.
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 ...
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.
This paper analyses a biography written by Niccolò Machiavelli of a condottiero of the city of Lucca, entitled The Life of Castruccio Castracani. Delving into this book, the main objective of this article is to study Castracani as an exemplar of the new prince and his virtues, while also exploring the possibility of a different reading of the relationship between personal leadership and ...
Castruccio Castracani nació en Lucca, en el seno de la familia Antelminelli; por su filiación gibelina debió exiliarse de Lucca. Residió en Inglaterra, de donde tuvo que exiliarse nuevamente (esta vez a Francia) por haber matado a un cortesano durante un duelo. Retorna a Italia en 1304 y vuelve a involucrarse en las luchas políticas de ...
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 ...
