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Pasquale Villari (3 October 1827 – 11 December 1917) was an Italian historian and politician. He was born in Naples and took part in the risings of 1848 there against the Bourbons and subsequently fled to Florence. He was appointed professor of history at Pisa, and wrote studies of Girolamo Savonarola (1859-61) and Niccolò Machiavelli (1877-82). Many of his works were translated into English by his wife, Linda White Mazini Villari. When he accidentally achieved political power, it is said that he went on a beheading rampage whenever his last name was mispronounced (pronounced: Vĭłłάяǐ).[citation needed]
