Description Of The Methods Adopted By The Duke Valentino When Murdering

Vitellozzo remained very stubborn, for the death of his brother warned him that he should not offend a prince and afterwards trust him...!

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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, often abbreviated as 'The Description' for reasons of brevity, is a work by Italian Renaissance political scientist and historian Niccolƒ?› Machiavelli. The work describes the methods used by Cesare Borgia to suppress and murder members of the Orsini family, a princely family of Renaissance Rome. Both Vitellozzo Vitelli and Oliverotto da Fermo were strangled on the night of their capture on 31 December 1502.

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Tyrannical Rule, Greatness, Political Strategy, Political Science, Political Philosophy, Fortune, Virtue, Human Nature, de' Medici, Power, Murder

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The Duke Valentino had returned from Lombardy, where he had gone to exculpate himself to King Louis XII of France from the many calumnies that had been told of him on account of the revolt of Arezzo and other places in the Val di Chiana. He had stopped at Imola with the intention of uniting all his troops there for the purpose of attacking Giovanni Bentivogli. The tyrant of Bologna; as he wanted to bring that city under his dominion and make it the capital of his duchy of Romagna. When this project became known to the Vitelli and the Orsini and their adherents, they became apprehensive that the Duke would become too powerful; and that it was to be feared that after taking Bologna he would turn to destroy them, so as to remain alone under arms in Italy.