1531 · Skopia

Showing 4 works across all media from 1531

Danae

Mythological painting · Renaissance

Danae

1531 · Galleria Borghese, Rome

Cupid pulls back the sheet while two putti sharpen their arrows on a whetstone at the foot of the bed. Painted for the Duke of Mantua.

★ 6.6

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasions for it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Discourses on Livy · 1531

★ 6.2

Political literature · Philosophical literature

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Niccolo Machiavelli

1531

★ 3.7

Political literature · Philosophical literature

The cause of the bad and of the good fortune of men is the way in which their method of working fits the times.

Niccolo Machiavelli

1531

★ 2.1