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Wily, wicked Volpone (the Fox) is a Venetian magnifico who pretends to be dying and to be deliberating on who shall be his heir. A crowd of voracious hopefuls rise to the bait, heap gifts upon him, satiate his own love of gold. With the help of his parasite, Mosca (the Fly), Volpone performs ever more devilish hoaxes upon his would-be heirs. In the end, duped and dupers alike are punished...
...other parties agreed to nominate a Radical for the Presidency. On election day (Feb. 24) the coalition candidate opposing Peron will probably be either of two party chiefs, Dr. José P. Tamborini or Enrique Mosca...
...Gaetano Mosca (1858-1941) thought the Rabbits were a good deal more aggressive than Machiavelli did. Mosca found "the struggle for pre-eminence is far more conspicuous . . . than the struggle for existence...
...Hook, the Machiavellian position is unsound. Says he: "Behind the facade of logical argument in the writings of Mosca, Pareto and Michels, are two significant assumptions . . . that human na ture has a fixed and unalterable charac ter . . . that the amount of freedom and democracy in a society is determined by a law already known. Both assumptions are false." History, insists Hook, is made...
...lecture today Dr. Einaudi will take up the development of the doctrine of a political class or a political elite. Be will deal with Mosca and Pareto whose works have been influential in the development of this idea. Mosca's s less well known in this country than Pareto, but it was from Mosca's works, published twenty years before Pareto began writing, that the latter drew many of his beliefs. His works are now in the process of translation by Professor Arthur Livingston of Columbia...