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      • In Chapter 25, Machiavelli introduces fortune as a force that is strangely both uncontrollable and controllable simultaneously. Fortune is characterized as womanly to accentuate both its unpredictable nature and its ability to be overcame and submissive.
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  2. Although Machiavelli refers to Fortune as a woman, he did not create the idea. His Fortune represents the weaker descendant of the Roman goddess Fortuna, or Fate. Unlike Fortuna, Fortune affects but does not guarantee the final outcome of events.

  3. Hanna Fenichel Pitkin. “Fortune is a woman, and if you want to keep her under, you’ve got to knock her around some.”—Niccolò Machiavelli. Hanna Pitkin’s provocative and enduring study of Machiavelli was the first to systematically place gender at the center of its exploration of his political thought. In this edition, Pitkin adds a ...

  4. Nov 2, 2018 · Fortune is a woman : gender and politics in the thought of Niccolò Machiavelli : Pitkin, Hanna Fenichel : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.

  5. Fortune is characterized as womanly to accentuate both its unpredictable nature and its ability to be overcame and submissive.

  6. Dec 6, 2023 · I certainly think that it is better to be impetuous than cautious, for fortune is a woman, and it is necessary, if you wish to master her, to conquer her by force; and it can be seen that she let's herself be overcome by these rather than by those who proceed coldly.

  7. For my part I consider that it is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those who go to work more coldly.

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