Hello, Guest. Taryn is an offshoot of Tara that has a variety of meanings in a variety of cultures. In 1953, Taryn was presented to the public as an invention by actors Tyrone Power and Linda Christian for their daughter's name, at which point it gained a short spurt of popularity.Taryn returned to the Top 1000 in 1974, peaking in the 1980s, and has remained on the list ever since.n 1953, Taryn was presented to the public as an invention by actors Tyrone Power and Linda Christian for their daughter's name, at which point it gained a short spurt of popularity. Taryn returned to the Top 1000 in 1974, peaking in the 1980s, and has remained on the list ever since.
Wolcott is referring to NiccolÃ² Machiavelli, a philosopher and writer in the Italian Renaissance, who inspired the political term Machiavellianism, defined as the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
He also wrote an influential work on the merits of republicanism, known as the Discourses on Livy. Machiavelli grew up in the Italian city-state of Florence, which had been ruled by the Medici family for 60 years. In 1494, the Medicis were expelled from Florence and the city was instead set up as a republic. Machiavelli had been raised with a humanistic education and was an excellent writer and speaker. He was selected to be the Second Chancellor of Florence, and successfully led a militia of civilian-soldiers to victory over Pisa in 1509.