Descrizione del modo tenuto dal Duca Valentino...

Description of the methods adopted by Duke Valentino...

AuthorNiccolò Machiavelli

LanguageItalian

Year1532

CountryItaly

GenreNonfiction / Essays / Treatise

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A Description of the methods adopted by the Duke Valentino when murdering Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, the Signor Pagolo, and the Duke di Gravina Orsini is a work by Italian Renaissance political scientist and historian Niccolò Machiavelli. The work describes Cesare Borgia's capture and murder of members of the Orsini family, his rivals in Renaissance Rome. Both Vitellozzo Vitelli and Oliverotto da Fermo were strangled on the night of their capture on 31 December 1502.— Wikipedia