The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli (Routledge Library Editions: Politic
1st Edition
The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli By Roberto Ridolfi
Copyright 1963
ISBN 9780203706046
368 Pages
Published October 6, 2009 by Routledge
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Description
This biography of Macchiavelli is widely regarded as Ridolfi’s masterpiece and is based on much material drawn from private and public archives. It presents a fresh interpretation of Macchiavelli’s career and writings and here, for example the dating of the composition of such famous works as the Prince and the Mandragola is established for the first time. This English translation, when originally published in 1963 included numerous correction and additions which brought it up to date with the most recent studies on Macchiavelli and his works.
Table of Contents
1. Early Life and Education 2. Niccolò Machiavelli Secretary
3. The First Commission 4. The First Mission to France
5. The Rebellions of Subject States and the Campaigns of Caesar Borgia
6. The Mission to Caesar Borgia 7. The First Roman Legation 8. The Second Mission to France The First "Decannale" The Militia 9. The Florentine Histories The Second Legation to Julius II
10. The German Legation The War and the Retaking of Pisa 11. Mission to Mantua and Verona. The Third Mission to France. 12. The Twelfth Hour 13. "Sorrowful Macchiavelli" 14. The "Idleness" of Sant’Andrea: The Discourses and the Prince
15. Love and Suffering 16. Literary Diversions: The Ass, Mandragola, Belfagor 17. The "Life of Castruccio" and the "art of War". Histories for Florins. 18. The Legation to the Fanciscans 19. Niccolò Machiavelli, Historian
20. Niccolò Machiavelli, Historian and Comedian 21. Niccolò Machiavelli, "Historian, Comic and Tragic Author" 22. "Sixty Years"
23. The End. 24. The Unarmed Prophet
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Roberto Ridolfi
Italian conspirator
Also known as: Roberto di Ridolfo
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Born: November 18, 1531 Florence Italy
Died: February 18, 1612 (aged 80) Florence Italy
Role In: Ridolfi Plot
Roberto Ridolfi, also called Roberto di Ridolfo, (born Nov. 18, 1531, Florence [Italy]—died Feb. 18, 1612, Florence), Florentine conspirator who attempted in 1570–71 to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I of England in favour of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, who then was to be married to Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk. Ridolfi intended to secure these results by the murder of Elizabeth and a Spanish invasion of England.
A member of the prominent Florentine family of Ridolfi di Piazza, Ridolfi was trained as a merchant and banker. He went to London as a business agent about 1555, during the reign of the Catholic queen of England, Mary I (d. 1558), whose husband, the future king Philip II of Spain, later figured in Ridolfi’s plan. Although Ridolfi was trusted and employed by Elizabeth’s government, his ardent Catholicism led him into political activity on behalf of discontented English Catholics. After the failure of revolts in the north of England (1569–70) in which he was involved, Ridolfi and John Leslie, Catholic bishop of Ross, concluded that foreign military backing was essential. Ridolfi left England in March 1571 to obtain assistance from Pope Pius V, Philip II of Spain, and the Duke de Alba, Spanish governor-general of the Netherlands. With some difficulty he procured from the Duke of Norfolk a written statement that the duke was a Catholic and would lead an English revolution supported by Spain.
Ridolfi’s plot was exposed in April 1571 when his messenger, Charles Baillie, was arrested at Dover, Kent. Baillie’s confession and the letters that he was carrying incriminated many conspirators, including Leslie, who was imprisoned for two years, and Norfolk, who was executed for treason (June 2, 1572). Only Elizabeth’s forbearance saved Mary Stuart, then in captivity in England, from death at that time. Ridolfi, who was still abroad when the plot was discovered, returned to Italy, becoming a Florentine senator in 1600.
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Roberto Ridolfi (or di Ridolfo) (18 November 1531 – 18 February 1612) was an Italian and Florentine nobleman and conspirator.
Biography[edit]
Ridolfi belonged to a famous family of Florence, where he was born. As a banker he had business connections with England, and about 1555 he settled in London, where he soon became a person of some importance, consorting with William Cecil and other prominent men. In Trinity term 1564 he was recorded as "Robertus Ridolphy, of London, merchant stranger" in a case in Common Pleas.[1]
During the early years of Elizabeth's reign he began to take a more active part in politics, associating with the discontented Roman Catholics in England and communicating with their friends abroad. In 1570, he set to work on a plot against Elizabeth I which usually bears his name: the Ridolfi plot.
His intention was to marry Mary, Queen of Scots, to the Duke of Norfolk and to place her on the English throne. With the aid of John Lesley, bishop of Ross, he gained the consent of these high personages to the conspiracy, and then in 1571 he visited the Duke of Alva at Brussels, Pope Pius V at Rome, and Philip II at Madrid to explain to them his scheme and to gain their assistance.
However, his messenger to Lesley, Charles Baillie (1542–1625), was seized at Dover and revealed the existence of the plot under torture. Consequently, Norfolk and Lesley were arrested, the former being condemned to death in January 1572. Ridolfi, who was then in Paris, could do nothing when he heard the news that his scheme had collapsed. Afterwards he served the Pope, but much of his later life was spent in Florence, where he became a senator, and where he died on 18 February 1612.
In the CW series, Reign, Archbishop Ridolfi is thought to be Roberto di Ridolfi.
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