what book did niccolo machiavelli write?
The Prince
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 Villani was inspired to write his Cronica after attending the jubilee celebration in Rome in 1300 and noting the venerable history of that city . He outlined the events in his Cronica year for year , following a strictly linear narrative format . He provided intricate details on many important historical events of the city of Florence and the wider region of Tuscany , such as construction projects , floods , fires , famines , and plagues . 

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 Candido , ovvero un sogno fatto in Sicilia ( 1977 ) or simply Candido is a book by Leonardo Sciascia . It was at least partly based on Voltaire 's Candide , although the actual influence of Candide on Candido is a hotly debated topic . A number of theories on the matter have been proposed . Proponents of one say that Candido is very similar to Candide , only with a happy ending ; supporters of another claim that Voltaire provided Sciascia with only a starting point from which to work , that the two books are quite distinct . 

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 The novel was first published as part of the Nouveaux contes philosophiques in late 1832 , but by the start of the following year he declared it to be " a wretched miscarriage " and began rewriting it . During the process , Balzac was aided by a grammarian working as a proofreader , who found " a thousand errors " in the text . Once he had returned home , the author " cried with despair and with that rage that takes hold of you when you recognize your faults after working so hard " . 

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 In 1554 , Matteo Bandello published the second volume of his Novelle , which included his version of Giuletta e Romeo , probably written between 1531 and 1545 . Bandello lengthened and weighed down the plot , while leaving the storyline basically unchanged ( though he did introduce Benvolio ) . Bandello 's story was translated into French by Pierre Boaistuau in 1559 in the first volume of his Histories Tragiques . Boaistuau adds much moralising and sentiment , and the characters indulge in rhetorical outbursts . 

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 The Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli ( 1855 – 1912 ) stated that his long lyric poem L 'ultimo viaggio was an attempt to reconcile the portrayals of Ulysses in Dante and Tennyson with Tiresias 's prophecy that Ulysses would die " a mild death off the sea " . Pascoli 's Ulysses leaves Ithaca to retrace his epic voyage rather than begin another . 
