Category Archives: Law & Justice
Four Novels: Four Levels of Hell
To these four novels I have assigned levels of hell, in descending order, for their depictions of life in various (English speaking) places during the last two centuries. Level 1 I serendipitously happened across Old School by Tobias Wolff in … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Literature, History, Law & Justice
Tagged Andrew Vachss, “Burke” novels, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn, Mary McCarthy, Mask Market, Old School, Robert Frost, The Rise of Silas Lapham, This Boy’s Life, Tobias Wolff, William Dean Howells
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Nicolò Machiavelli: His Times, His Observations & His Advice to Princes
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) is often cited, but rarely quoted. Many people who mention him believe they know what he is all about in his advice to princes, in general, and the ruler of the Florentine Republic, in … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Literature, Government & Politics, History, Law & Justice, War & Peace
Tagged Church, Florentine Republic, France, History, Lorenzo de’ Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Machiavelli, Machiavellianism, Niccolò Machiavelli, Papal Estates, Papal States, Piero de' Medici, Piero the Unfortunate, Pope Leo X, Prince, Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, The Prince
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