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Virtus or virtù

A Latin word drawn from vir (man in opposition to woman) and meaning ‘courage.’ The Machiavellian meaning of virtù, strictly political, makes a break and admits the recourse to evil, and clearly splits from the ancient and Medieval conceptions of the notion.

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