Renaissance · Europe · Culture

1532

Machiavelli's Prince Published Posthumously

1532

Five years after Niccolo Machiavelli's death, a Roman printer issued The Prince with papal permission. Within decades it would be on the Index of Forbidden Books, burned by Jesuits, and smuggled by diplomats across Europe. The word Machiavellian entered every European language as a slur. Its analysis of power horrified moralists but fascinated rulers, and its influence on political thought has never diminished.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: 1531: Halley's Comet Alarms Europe
After: January 25, 1533: Henry VIII Marries Anne Boleyn

Before and after in Culture

Before: 1528: Castiglione's Book of the Courtier Published
After: 1533: Holbein Paints the Ambassadors

Era

Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Niccolò Machiavelli