In "The Prince, " a treatise on the art of politics, the 16th century Italianphilosopher Niccolo Machiavelli insisted that compassion got in the way of eminence.
In 1609, Italianphilosopher and physicist Galileo Galilei used descriptions of Lippershey's gadget to build his own telescope, and with it he was able to observe the Earth, the Moon and several planets in our solar system in detail for the first time.
The writer and philosopher said the cliffs were the first sight of the British mainland seen by his Italian immigrant father who came to the country in the 1960s.