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Novella by Niccolò Machiavelli written between and

Belfagor arcidiavolo ("Belfagor the archdaemon") is a novella by Niccolò Machiavelli, written between and , and first published with his collected works in The novella is also known as La favola di Belfagor Arcidiavolo ("The fable of Belfagor the archdaemon") and Il demonio che prese moglie ("The demon who took a wife").

Novella belfagor machiavelli biography death Al quale Roderigo rispose: "Io sono contento. Seldom has a single work generated such divergent and fierce commentary from such a wide assortment of writers. Download as PDF Printable version. Machiavelli quickly gained political prominence and influence; by he was a well-respected assistant to the republican gonfalonier, or head of state, Piero Soderini.

Machiavelli's tale appeared in an abbreviated version published by Giovanni Brevio in Giovanni Francesco Straparola included his own version as the fourth story of the second night in his Le piacevoli notti ().

The "devil takes a wife" story influenced several English works: a version of it occurs in the conclusion of Rich His Farewell to Military Profession () by Barnabe Rich.

The popular play Grim the Collier of Croydon (published ) shows Machiavelli's influence. An English translation of Machiavelli's work was published in London in as The Devil a Married Man: or The Devil Hath Met with His Match.

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This was adapted into a play called The Devil and the Parliament (), later followed by Belphegor, or The Marriage of the Devil () by John Wilson. William Makepeace Thackeray produced his own version of the tale in the nineteenth century.

The tale was adapted for the opera Belfagor by Ottorino Respighi. The Belfagor fable was the basis of a poem by Luigi Pirandello.

The Romanian writer and satirist Ion Luca Caragiale wrote a version of the story: in Kir Ianulea, the demon takes the human form of a Greek merchant who arrives in Bucharest.

Machiavelli the art of war In , Spanish forces invaded Italy and the Florentine political climate changed abruptly. Livius and The Prince were not published until after Machiavelli's death, in and respectively. His next effort, a military treatise published in and entitled Libro della arte della guerra The Art of War , was the only historical or political work published during the author's lifetime. For with this slim treatise the author confronted the ramifications of power when its procurement and exercise were notably peremptory" not only in his own country but throughout Europe as well.

The plot retains similarities with the original, with the author even mentioning Machiavelli's story.

Synopsis

The story derives from Medieval Slavic folklore (and gave birth to a German and North-European version featuring a Friar Rush). In Machiavelli's account, Pluto notes that crowds of male souls arrive in Hell blaming their wives for their misery.

He summons a parliament, which decides to send the former-archangel-now-archdevil Belfagor to the Earth to investigate.

Belfagor assumes a human form as one Roderigo of Castile, and comes to Florence with a hundred thousand ducats; he marries a woman named Onesta Donati. Soon, her vanity and wasteful spending, combined with the demands of her relatives, reduce him to poverty and debt.

Novella belfagor machiavelli biography A decided influence on the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and Sir Francis Bacon and on the thought of such modern political theorists as Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca, Georges Sorel, and Robert Michels, Machiavelli has been called the founder of empirical political science, primarily on the strength of the Discourses and The Prince. Elemento Wikidata. Fu cosa maravigliosa a pensare quanta alterazione di mente recassi a Roderigo sentire ricordare il nome della moglie. The play was popular with audiences throughout much of Italy for several years.

He flees imprisonment, pursued by creditors and magistrates; rescued by the peasant Gianmatteo, Belfagor grants his rescuer the power to drive devils out of possessed women – which eventually causes major problems for the peasant himself. In the end, Belfagor gratefully returns to Hell, denouncing the institution of marriage.

References

• Hoenselaars, A.

  J. "The Politics of Prose and Drama: The Case of Machiavelli's Belfagor." In: The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama: Cultural Exchange and Intertextuality. Edited by Michele Marrapodi; Newark, DE, University of Delaware Press,

• Qvortrup, Mads 'Belfagor', Copenhagen, Informations Forlag, with notes and introduction
• Scott, Mary Augusta.

  Elizabethan Translations from the Italian. Baltimore, Modern Language Association of America, ; reprinted New York, Burt Franklin,

• Spiering, Menno, and Joep Leerssen, eds. Machiavelli: Figure-Reputation. Yearbook of European Studies, Vol. 8; Amsterdam and Atlanta, Rodopi,
• Villari, Pasquale.

  Niccolò Machiavelli and His Times. Translated by Linda White Mazini Villari; London, Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co.,

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