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Using the theories of Niccolò Machiavelli, I study in this article, from a transatlantic perspective, Italians who helped build the Chilean nation. Italians did not emigrate to Chile on a grand scale; however, the success of those immigrants is a study in fortuna and virtù. Those honored by Chile with ‘monuments,’ or those who built edifices of their own, such as Pastene, Rondizzoni and Toesca, among others, can be called ‘monuments of Italian identity’ in Chile. In this context, Machiavelli's oeuvre serves as a rhetorical framework for understanding the actions of Italians who fought for and helped shape the Chilean nation.
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