Machiavelli

n. family name; Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), Florentine statesman and political writer (author of "the Prince")

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was an Italian diplomat, political philosopher, musician, poet, and playwright. He is a figure of the Italian Renaissance and a central figure of its political component, most widely known for his treatises on realist political theory (The Prince) on the one hand and republicanism (Discourses on Livy) on the other.
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Noun
1. a statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central government (1469-1527)
(synonym) Niccolo Machiavelli
(hypernym) statesman, solon, national leader

n. Machiavelli, family name; Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), Florentine statesman and political writer (author of "the Prince")

An extension of Standard ML developed by Peter Buneman & Atsushi Ohori of the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, based on orthogonal persistence.
["Database Programming in Machiavelli: A Polymorphic Language with Static Type Inference", A. Ohori, Proc SIGMOD Conf, ACM, June 1989].
(1995-02-21)