Il principe and lo stato

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A scholar who has given much of his life to the study of Machiavelli and Machiavellianism, Prof. Giuseppe Prezzolini, recently observed that Machiavelli himself is partly responsible for the weird interpretations of which he has been victim, ‘because he did not take pains to express himself in a systematic form and with a coherent vocabulary. His way of writing is cited in the history of Itahan literature for its perspicuity, simplicity, absence of rhetoric. But it could not be cited for its precision … Machiavelli uses the same word for different concepts and expresses the same concepts with different words.' Prezzolini offers confirmation for his remarks from the corroborative reports of other explorers who wore themselves out slogging through the swamp of Machiavelli's vocabulary.

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