The Disney Golden Age refers to the beginning of the Disney Animated Canon when Walt Disney was... The Disney Golden Age refers to the beginning of the Disney Animated Canon when Walt Disney was still alive and all the films received critical acclaim despite struggles at the box office due to...
Machiavelli wrote The Prince in an attempt to ingratiate himself with the Medici princes who had recently taken over the government of his native city, Florence, in the early sixteenth century (see the rather overstated flattery in the prefatory letter to Lorenzo deâMedici).
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini wrote a discourse on The Prince. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin read The Prince and annotated his own copy. 20th century Italian-American mobsters were influenced by The Prince. John Gotti and Roy DeMeo would regularly quote The Prince and consider it to be the Mafia Bible.