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Machiavelli, by Thomas Babington Macaulay

Harvard Classics
Harvard Classics
Episode • Oct 25, 2021 • 21m

After the publication of Machiavelli's "The Prince," the Sultans became more addicted to strangling their brothers, tyrants became more merciless, and murderous plots increased. The influence of that book, as Macaulay points out, spread over Europe and Asia. (Volume 27, Harvard Classics)

Thomas Babington Lord Macaulay born Oct. 25, 1800.

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