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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, DECEMBER: 122.

MACHIAVELLI

Mr. de Martin's Talk On Famous Character

In

ermah." It is saay to be wise "after such excellent opportunities, be sata the event-but it is navertness 99% forth the 'means by which a prince unpleasant. Who cares nowadays jay hopa to acquire power and reikia about the return of Giuliano, the it

" Mediel or of the "we brother the cardinal who returned which will commend itself to those There is much. In "The Prince" to the home of his childhood with his interested in the literature of or con- eyeglass and his collection of Greck carned with the practice of govern manuscripts. At this distanco of

that has been,.

time we can take a superior pleasurement. The book in not all purple spots ORIGIN OF ADJECTIVE in the knowledge that the really im- and there are pages and pages which portant happening was that Machia can be endorsed even by those not uncommon persons who do their velll lost his employment.

| thinking in a pair of bilakers.. Jecture delivered In

"He was aggrieved at his dismissal After commenting on sume of the the Jacobean Room of the Hongkong and relieved his feelings by dabbling non-contentious' passages, the speakor Hotel, Mr. G. P. de Martin dealt in in ant-Medici conspiracy In

turned to those parts of the osasy to an interesting way with the career anuntourish sort, of way altogether and mind of Machiavelli. Those pre-belloving the sinister idona associated Which Machinvolti owes his evil re- sent included Sig. A. Bianconi, the with the adjective

pute. Italian Consul-General, who intro- derived from his name. When he

In concluding, the lecturer saldi duced the speaker.

We have in the English language a became a nuisanco he was locked 2P book which is very closely analogous Mr. G. P. de Martin said, in part: but was let out again on the election to the "Prince." It is Adant Smith's "Upon the death of the great of the cardinal to the Papacy. Leg Wealth of Nations" in which ho Lorenzo, Lorenzo the Magnificent, in X always had a soft spot his hear secularises the production of wealth. 1402, the power built up by him and for scholars. Machiavelli retired to what is to happen to those who aro his grandfather, old Cosimo, crumbled his village and wrote himself into ground between the uncontrolled away in the hands of an ineffective fame though anything less like fame millstones of supply and demand ha son who was expelled from the stato. than the setting to his now life can does not tell us.. It is nevertheless It was during the consequent theo- hardly be Imagined. cratic

a great book. government of Girolamo Savonarols that Niccolo Machiavelli his repeated applicatioga

His good behaviour politically and got his first government billet which restored Medici to employ him at last was a clerkship in the Florentine had their effect and he was given some

The adjective "machiavellian" con he was promoted to be secretary to much of his time. We have to be an Chancery. After four years of this trivial duties which did not tako on notes political cunning, untruthfulness

dahoneity Leaving out the Council of War. He was not a great man of affairs. lie has been grateful to Cardinal Giullo del Mediel, oficial career, when he was concerned afterwards Clement VII, for com-only with administration and not with allotted his eminent place in history missioning him to write a history, of policy, Machiavelli's only venture into not as a man of action not an account Florence,

politics on his own was little moro of what he did, but an account of

than childish, recalling the secret what he wrole and thought.

Neither the history nor "The

socletion of our schoolboy days. He Under the Republic, an in many Prince" had heed ullishe periods of her history, Florence was, Machiavelli died it the age of 58 in did not fear to tell the truth about the mercenaries--and they tried to at war with Pies. This war was con- the stormy year 1527. He is buried kill him. He did not shrink from ducted by Machiavelli'a council and, amid the tomb of eminent Floren- telling the truth about politics-and as their agent, he was frequently lines in the great church of Santa his name became a byeword. To hear

the troop whose intract Croce. On his tomb

in the simple the truth may be sometimes ability infected him with that dis inxerintion l'auto nomini nullum par pleasant. To tell the truth may be sometimes inexpedient-but it cannot

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trust of mercenary troops to which | elogium, he given expression both in his This outline of Machiavel'i's life be dishonest. In the words of Pro- dialogues on the Arte della Guerra a scholar, n/government officer of no fessor and in the military chapters of "The high rank, fix or seven dull years in finish: Prince. The mercenary system, non village, second period of restricted persistently the object of Machla-nctivity and the *གi{1b,-ut-wu velli's ridicule and indignation was a expinia fe fascination still inspired growth of the 14th. century. Italy by him and it is to his writings that had been the theatre of countless we must go to understand something petty feudi and the seat of many of his sinister glamour. Bttle wars. The old aristocracy of mixed German Italian race, for whom fighting had been an occupation, had

" Principe"

preciation of Mr. de Martin's address,

Mr. H. C. Macnamara spoke in ap and a vote of thanks he proposed was heartily supported by the gathering.

Bishop Valtorto, Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, Hon. Mr. R. M. Henderson, Commodore and Mr. Frank Elliott, Cool- Mr. Ho Kom-tong, and the

to a great extent exhausted itself inj After referenco to some private the struggle between the Guelfs and letter of Machiavelli and some of his the Ghibellincs much as did the Anglo- less known works, Mr. de Martin pro. mander and Officers of the Italian Norman aristocracy of England dur-cred to examine some parages of cruisor Quarto, wore Also amongst ing the Wars of the Roses. And yet The Prince," a book described by the those present. there was plenty of work for fighting|| late Lord Morley as "the most direct, ment. During the Great Schiam the contented and unflinching costel. states of the Roman Patrimony were bution over made to the secularisation in continual disorder.

of politics."

Citizens Militia

NEW YUGO-SLAV CABINET

Bolgrade, Doc, 21.

The Prince" appeals for the expul slan of the foreign invaders from

M. Jeftich has agreed to form Italy and begs that one of the Mediel And so the condotta system came princes would undertake

Cabinet. It is understood that the task. he himself will be Premier, with Into being and lasted till the whole [/Machiavelli hopes that the young expensive sham was swent away by Lorenzo with the assistance of his General Yivkovitch as Minister of Swisa pikemen and the favincible, unéta Leo X world Const infantry of Spain. Machiavelli then strong state which Cesare Borgia had urged the advisability of forming just failed to achieve. And then from It is notified that Mr. Jolm Barrow militia of citizens and this was done his rending of history and ex-resumed duty as Assistant Super- In a small way.

perience of contemporary politics, for intendunt of imports and Exports the observation of which he had had on December 15,

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