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Niccolò Machiavelli

10 Times Assassin’s Creed Games Ignored History
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The Assassin’s Creed series is iconic for its blend of real-world history with exciting fiction, giving players a historical experience through the eyes of various Assassins across different eras. Oftentimes, Ubisoft has taken creative liberty in terms of historical events and important figures, but sometimes they deviate from it too much to make it believable.

It’s thrilling and makes for an interesting plot or gameplay sequences that leave a mark in the history of video games. Yet sometimes, they are flat-out unbelievable and at one point, become incredibly amusing. We take a trip down nostalgia lane and take a look at 10 times Ubisoft took a detour from the real-world history.

1. Jack the Ripper – Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate

Jack the Ripper’s inclusion in Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate was accurate for the time it was set in, but his characterization is wildly inaccurate from his real-life self. Portrayed as an Assassin trained under Jacob Frye,...
See full article at FandomWire
  • 7/18/2025
  • by Souptik Adhikary
  • FandomWire
“I had a picture of him”: An Iconic British Politician Inspired Aidan Gillen’s Nefarious Game of Thrones Character Petyr Baelish
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It’s difficult to trust someone like Petyr Baelish, better known as the master trickster Littlefinger from Game of Thrones. He’s a cunning, deceitful, and Machiavellian opportunist who would always find a way to advance his position, no matter the cost. For someone who does not use brute force or threat as a means to get what he wants, Littlefinger has a lot of creativity and cleverness at his disposal.

Aidan Gillen in Game of Thrones / Credits: HBO Entertainment

Portraying such a complex and tricky character was indeed a challenge to Aidan Gillen, but thankfully he’s got enough inspiration and resources on how to carry his role. It took a lot of preparation, but it surely paid off in the end.

Who inspired Aidan Gillen’s Littlefinger in Game of Thrones?

Aidan Gillen sought help from Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince, a 16th-century political treatise containing an instruction guide for new princes.
See full article at FandomWire
  • 12/27/2024
  • by Ariane Cruz
  • FandomWire
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Tupac Shakur's custom ring sold for Rs 8.20 crore at auction
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Rap legend Tupac Shakur’s ring has become “the most valuable Hip Hop artifact ever sold at auction” after bidding topped $1 million (Rs 8.20 crore).

The ‘California Love’ hitmaker wore the custom gold, ruby and diamond crown piece during his final public appearance at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards, just a week before he was shot dead, and it has now sold for an unprecedented $1,016,000, far exceeding the $300,000 estimate it was expected to fetch, reports aceshowbiz.com.

Cassandra Hatton, Sotheby’s Global Head of Science and Popular Culture, said in a statement, “This one-of-a-kind, custom ring was meticulously designed by Pac and is among the final products of his boundless creative energy – a unique artifact from a period of time that is a testament to his enduring influence on Hip Hop”.

The rapper designed and commissioned the ring, which was engraved with “Pac and Dada, 1996” in reference to his relationship with Kidada Jones,...
See full article at GlamSham
  • 7/27/2023
  • by Agency News Desk
  • GlamSham
Dracula Is Officially The Emperor Palpatine Of The Marvel Universe
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Warning! Spoilers ahead for Blade: Vampire Nation #1

The new Blade: Vampire Nation #1 proves Dracula is the Marvel Universe's version of Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars. Having built his own nation in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Dracula's new empire known as Vampyrsk is still finding its feet while also featuring large amounts of cloak-and-dagger political maneuvering. As such, it's revealed that the new vampire kingdom's government is just as much of a sham as Palpatine's Imperial Senate in the galaxy far, far away.

Previously in the pages of Jason Aaron's Avengers, Dracula was able to negotiate the exclusion zone of Chernobyl as the site for an internationally recognized nation for vampirekind. Surprisingly, the United Nations and Avengers chose to legally recognize Dracula's Vampyrsk as a legitimate nation-state. However, the proviso was that Blade would serve as the nation's official sheriff, ensuring that the vampire country is kept in line and...
See full article at ScreenRant
  • 11/25/2022
  • by Kevin Erdmann
  • ScreenRant
Billy Bob Thornton in Goliath (2016)
Venice Review: Goliath is a Compelling Yet Unsurprising Biblically Inspired Drama
Billy Bob Thornton in Goliath (2016)
If a local village warlord discovers he’s in a movie titled Goliath, he better watch his back. It doesn’t matter what his origin story is—and Poshaev (Daniyar Alshinov) has a bloody one—when power is never absolute. Yes, the villagers hail him as a hero for using his formidable presence to extort jobs for the community at a foreign investment firm’s tungsten mine. Yes, he works to keep drugs out of his domain by ruthlessly gunning down any rival gangs who dare to bring it across his borders. He’s still just a man, though. Still at the whims of those he trusts to stand by his side with guns in their hands. They’re the ones to worry about. They’re the ones with something to gain.

The first two-thirds of Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s film are interesting precisely because the man everyone fears might seek...
See full article at The Film Stage
  • 9/9/2022
  • by Jared Mobarak
  • The Film Stage
Banovic Strahinja (1981)
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 3: Marvel and MCU Easter Eggs Guide
Banovic Strahinja (1981)
This article contains The Falcon and the Winter Soldier spoilers and potential spoilers for the wider MCU.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 3 might end up being remembered as the turning point of the series. A slow burn first episode led to some bigger revelations in the second one, but the third episode of the Marvel series is a bona fide sequel to one of the biggest MCU movies of all time in Captain America: Civil War. With a truly triumphant return for Sharon Carter and the re-introduction of Baron Helmut Zemo in a form that should feel much more recognizable to fans of the comics, there’s plenty of Marvel action to be had in “Power Broker.”

Here’s what we found…

Dr. Wilfred Nagel

Wilfred Nagel was first introduced in Truth: Red, White, and Black, the same story that introduced Isaiah Bradley to Marvel Comics canon. The...
See full article at Den of Geek
  • 4/2/2021
  • by Kirsten Howard
  • Den of Geek
Tom Hanks at an event for Larry Crowne (2011)
Tom Hanks Brings His Heavyweight Talent to Shakespeare’s Falstaff in ‘Henry IV’
Tom Hanks at an event for Larry Crowne (2011)
Tom Hanks took to the stage last weekend as we’ve never seen him before — in a fat suit as a barreling and rambunctious drunk.

No, he wasn’t appearing in a “Saturday Night Live” skit, but instead bringing one of William Shakespeare’s most iconic comedic characters to life: John Falstaff in the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles’ production of “Henry IV,” now playing through July 1.

While the Oscar winner consistently captivated in his L.A. stage debut as the overweight, vain and boastful cowardly knight who befriends the future king of England, the outdoor setting for the play could not have been more tranquil.

Also Read: Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson to Take on the Bard in La Production of 'Henry IV'

The intimate stage at the Japanese Garden on the West Los Angeles Va Campus had a natural wooded backdrop, twinkling lights and bubbling streams that swept...
See full article at The Wrap
  • 6/12/2018
  • by Debbie Emery
  • The Wrap
Daria (1997)
Daria Turns 20: 11 Things You Never Knew About the Iconic Show
Daria (1997)
Ask a certain crowd of people what the defining MTV show of their childhood was, and it’s not Trl, or Real World or Jersey Shore. It’s Daria. Though Ms. Morgendorffer had been seen on Beavis and Butt-Head before, the March 3, 1997, premiere of Daria proved that the two shows couldn’t be more different. Let’s take a fond trip back to Lawndale for a closer look at the best animated misanthrope of the ‘90s.

1. B&B-h creator Mike Judge had no involvement in Daria …

Judge agreed to release the character, but that’s where his involvement with the show ended.
See full article at PEOPLE.com
  • 3/3/2017
  • by Alex Heigl
  • PEOPLE.com
The Great Beauty portrays Italy more faithfully than its new prime minister | Arianna Letizia and Santiago Zabala
The film shines a spotlight on Italy in a way Matteo Renzi won't – which is why the Italian media has panned it

Paolo Sorrentino's latest film, The Great Beauty, and Matteo Renzi's appointment as the prime minister of Italy, are probably the most significant recent events in Italian culture and politics.

Even though Renzi belongs to the same political establishment that has been running the country for decades, most Italian newspapers praise him as the man capable of breaking the deadlock in which the nation has found itself since Silvio Berlusconi took power more than 20 years ago. The reaction to Sorrentino's movie has been very different. Although it has won a Golden Globe, a European Film Award, and a Bafta for best foreign language film – and could be honoured with an Oscar this weekend – it has been heavily criticised throughout the Italian media. Alessandra Levantesi Kezich of La Stampa...
See full article at The Guardian - Film News
  • 2/27/2014
  • by Arianna Letizia, Santiago Zabala
  • The Guardian - Film News
Tom Hanks hopes to strike it Lucky on Broadway
Hanks to make Broadway debut as a tabloid columnist in Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy this autumn, while Zooey Deschanel will play Loretta Lynn – and a musical Charlie Chaplin comes to town

Tom Hanks, Zooey Deschanel and Downton Abbey actor Dan Stevens are among the stars making their Broadway debuts in the forthcoming autum/winter season, which will also see the debut of a musical about Charlie Chaplin.

Two-time Oscar winner Hanks will play the tabloid newspaper columnist Mike McAlary in Lucky Guy, a new play by Sleepless in Seattle writer Nora Ephron, according to the New York Post . Scheduled for a limited run at the Shubert Theatre from January 2013, the play charts McAlary's controversial career as a crime journalist, which included a high-profile libel suit and a Pulitzer prize, before he died of colon cancer aged 41.

Hanks's last stage appearance was a one-off benefit reading of The Comedy of Errors...
See full article at The Guardian - Film News
  • 5/14/2012
  • by Matt Trueman
  • The Guardian - Film News
Killing Your Job
When is the right time to walk away from a project or job? And what about all your fears of leaving? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from The 4-Hour Workweek, written by Tim Ferriss.

"All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer." -Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

Some jobs are simply beyond repair.

Improvements would be like adding a set of designer curtains to a jail cell: better but far from good. In the context of this chapter, "job" will refer to both a company if you run one and a normal job if you have one. Some recommendations are...
See full article at Fast Company
  • 1/20/2011
  • by Tim Ferriss
  • Fast Company
Alfredo Bini obituary
Producer of Pier Paolo Pasolini's early films

Though an enterprising film producer, often ahead of his times, Alfredo Bini, who has died aged 83, is best remembered for having given the poet Pier Paolo Pasolini the chance to make his debut as a film-maker with Accattone (1960), when no other film company was prepared to back it. Bini produced more than 40 films, including all the features made by Pasolini up until 1967, including Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St Matthew, 1964). Among his other films were many starring his wife, Rosanna Schiaffino.

Bini was born in Livorno, Tuscany, and, during the second world war, ran away from home to join the army. He was wounded and got a medal, but went back to finish his studies in biology. He soon gave up the idea of a scientific career and in 1945 moved to Rome, where, after taking on various jobs, he managed a theatre group.
See full article at The Guardian - Film News
  • 11/2/2010
  • by John Francis Lane
  • The Guardian - Film News
Waka Flocka Flame Says Tupac Led Him To Flockaveli Title
Late rapper's 'Makaveli' album inspired Waka to check out Niccolò Machiavelli's writing.

By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Rahman Dukes

Waka Flocka

Photo: MTV News

Waka Flocka Flame knew naming his debut album Flockaveli would invite fans to compare him to Tupac Shakur,who had adopted the name Makaveli as an homage to Italian philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli just before his first posthumous album was released. But the Gucci Mane protégé said the Shakur album title inspired him to seek out the writer's work.

Waka said he shares Machiavelli's tactics, which were famously chronicled in his book "The Art of War."

"Tupac introduced me to the [writing] of Machiavelli," Waka told MTV News. "That's why I made that. I can't just, 'Oh, Tupac did that, so I'm gonna do that too.' If people read, they would love that man. That man is a mind-game genius. I read the Machiavelli war-tactic books,...
See full article at MTV Music News
  • 10/5/2010
  • MTV Music News
Assassin’s Creed II ‘Forli’ Dlc Out Tomorrow
Are you itching to get strapped back into the Animus? Well, you are in luck--the first of two planned content packs for Assassin’s Creed 2 is released tomorrow, January 28th.

The content features a potion of gameplay originally omitted from the main game due to time constraints called Sequence 12. Players will re-assume the role of Ezio as he fights alongside Niccolò Machiavelli & Caterina Sforza to protect a piece of Eden from the Orsi brothers and the Templars.

Check out the trailer below:

The Dlc will set you back a reasonable 320 Microsoft Points or $3.99 on the PlayStation Network.

Are you planning to venture back to Italy tomorrow? Or has Mass Effect 2 already got all of your attention?...
See full article at GameRant
  • 1/28/2010
  • by Tom Copeland
  • GameRant
Assassin’s Creed 2 “Forli” Gets Official Date and Price
Ubisoft recently updated their Twitter feed confirming the first of two new Dlc packs for their brilliant renaissance themed stab-em-up Assassins Creed 2 will be released on Xbox Live and Psn next week, on January 28th.

The first add-on pack, The Battle of Forli - which adds new missions in the Romagna area, will be available for the highly affordable price of 320 Microsoft Points or $3.99 on the PlayStation Network.

The content features six new playable memories that involves Niccolò Machiavelli & Caterina Sforza fighting alongside Ezio to protect a piece of Eden from the Orsi brothers and the Templars.

The second Assassin’s Creed 2 Dlc pack is titled Bonfire of the Vanities and is planned for a release in February.

Is this Dlc interesting enough to get you strapped back into the Animus?

Source: Ubisoft...
See full article at GameRant
  • 1/22/2010
  • by Tom Copeland
  • GameRant
Rosanna Schiaffino obituary
Italian model and film actor, she left the cinema and joined the jet set

Rosanna Schiaffino, who has died aged 69, was one of those Italian beauty queens who began a promising acting career in the post-neorealist cinema of the 1950s. She gave up the cinema in the 1970s and married the handsome playboy and steel industry heir Giorgio Falck. Their marriage and, a decade later, their break-up and divorce, had overtones of melodrama more piquant than the content of any of the 45 films in which Schiaffino had starred.

She was born in Genoa, in north Italy, into a well-off family and, although her father wanted her to pursue studies as a surveyor, her mother encouraged her showbusiness ambitions, helping her to study privately at a drama school and then to take part in beauty contests, which she usually won. These led to modelling jobs, with photographs in important magazines, including Life.
See full article at The Guardian - Film News
  • 11/18/2009
  • by John Francis Lane
  • The Guardian - Film News
The 50 Cent Bible
When Robert Greene published "The 48 Laws of Power" he had no idea the book would become a mega cult classic--and not just amongst business types. Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson credits Greene's work with his success. But the single most defining moment in 50's life, he says, is when he completely let go of his fear. Fear nothing, and you shall succeed. This is the basic tenant of "The 50th Law," the groundbreaking collaboration between 50 and Greene.

When Robert Greene published The 48 Laws of Power in 2000, a book that has sold over 800,000 copies, he had no idea the book would become a mega cult classic--and not just amongst business types. Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson credits Green's work with his success: in 2008 he was named the #1 earning Hip-Hop Cash King by Forbes, and as an investor of Vitamin Water he also cashed in when Coca-Cola bought the brand. But the single most defining moment in 50's life,...
See full article at Fast Company
  • 9/11/2009
  • Fast Company
SAG Apparently Seeking Strike Authorization
Lewis Carroll was a master of bizarre fantasy, willful illogic, and headstrong characters. Not surprisingly, that often makes his shape-shifting prose relevant to present-day concerns. Consider Alice’s fall down the rabbit hole:

The rabbit-hole … dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down what seemed to be a very deep well.

Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her, and to wonder what was going to happen next. …

Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end?

– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

If we were focused on the broader world, we’d note how woefully applicable this passage is to the current economic crisis — will the fall never come to an end?

Or we might...
  • 10/1/2008
  • by noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Handel)
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