Crystal

I was wondering if anyone here could help me. My son, Sean, was
researching Niccolo Machiavelli because that is the name tatooed on
the rapper 2Pac. He found this reference to him:

"Machiavelli is buried in the church of Santa Croce at Florence,
beside the tomb of Michael Angelo. His monument bears this
inscription:

"Tanto nomini nullum par eulogium."

And though this praise is doubtless exaggerated, he is a son of whom
his country may be justly proud. Hugo Albert Rennert."

He doesn't know what the words in Latin mean. He tried all kinds of
online translators but he couldn't find any free Latin ones. Does
anyone here know what those words mean?

PS--another cool connection. While Sean was researching this he asked
me if he could get a book written by Machiavelli called "The Prince".
Later that day, while watching the cartoon Family Guy, Stewie the
baby was reading it!

(I also posted this on unschooling.com so you may see it twice.)

Crystal

Lillian Haas

Something along the lines of "No epitaph is equal to so great a name." We
love Latin around here!

Lillian


>
> "Machiavelli is buried in the church of Santa Croce at Florence,
> beside the tomb of Michael Angelo. His monument bears this
> inscription:
>
> "Tanto nomini nullum par eulogium."
>
> And though this praise is doubtless exaggerated, he is a son of whom
> his country may be justly proud. Hugo Albert Rennert."

Tim and Maureen

Crystal,

Over his remains there stands a stately monument bearing the words "Tanto
nomini nullum par elogium" (No eulogy would do justice to so great a name).
stately monument bearing the words "Tanto nomini nullum par elogium" (No
eulogy would do justice to so great a name).

I found it at - philosophy.fullcoll.edu/res/profiles/machiavelli.pdf

Tim T

PS. I was studying "WWMachD" today, in fact!!

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From: Crystal
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Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 4:57 PM
Subject: [UnschoolingDiscussion] I need a Latin phrase translated


I was wondering if anyone here could help me. My son, Sean, was
researching Niccolo Machiavelli because that is the name tatooed on
the rapper 2Pac. He found this reference to him:

"Machiavelli is buried in the church of Santa Croce at Florence,
beside the tomb of Michael Angelo. His monument bears this
inscription:

"Tanto nomini nullum par eulogium."

And though this praise is doubtless exaggerated, he is a son of whom
his country may be justly proud. Hugo Albert Rennert."

He doesn't know what the words in Latin mean. He tried all kinds of
online translators but he couldn't find any free Latin ones. Does
anyone here know what those words mean?

PS--another cool connection. While Sean was researching this he asked
me if he could get a book written by Machiavelli called "The Prince".
Later that day, while watching the cartoon Family Guy, Stewie the
baby was reading it!

(I also posted this on unschooling.com so you may see it twice.)

Crystal



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crystal.pina

Thanks, Tim and Lillian. My son will be glad you found out for him. He googled for a long time and couldn't find the translator, but I think he was looking for a language translator and not philosophy. It makes all the difference what phrase you type into the blank in Google.

Crystal
I found it at - philosophy.fullcoll.edu/res/profiles/machiavelli.pdf

Tim T

PS. I was studying "WWMachD" today, in fact!!

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