Skip to content
eventVerified

Dell’arte della guerra is printed in Machiavelli’s lifetime

In 1521 Dell’arte della guerra appeared, the only major political work printed while Machiavelli lived, arguing infantry, discipline, and native troops. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Industrial-Policy Activism.

Sources: [1][2]

Read the full account

In 1521 Dell’arte della guerra appeared, the only major political work printed while Machiavelli lived, arguing infantry, discipline, and native troops. The book is a completed print event.

Context

Military reform writing is an industrial-organisational instrument of war.

Niccolò Machiavelli is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

High confidence on 1521.

High confidence on 1521.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Niccolo Machiavelli

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    Florentine secretary and writer as documented. Printers, censors, and later rulers reuse the name.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactDell’arte della guerra is printed in Machiavelli’s lifetime
    2. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

    impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 January 1521 · verified

    High confidence on 1521.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Dell’arte della guerra — Internet ArchiveInternet Archive · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Niccolò MachiavelliEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorNiccolo Machiavelli
  2. contributed toFactDell’arte della guerra is printed in Machiavelli’s lifetime
  3. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

Cite this page

Factrail. (2026). Dell’arte della guerra is printed in Machiavelli’s lifetime. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/mc-arte-della-guerra-1521

https://factrail.ai/facts/mc-arte-della-guerra-1521

Accessed 16 October 2026.

By the · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed

Dispute this factNamed here, or represent someone who is? Request a right of reply.