An Unlikely Prince by Niccolò Capponi
Author:Niccolò Capponi [Capponi, Niccolò]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2010-08-01T16:00:00+00:00
This negative portrait notwithstanding, Machiavelli believed that the French would eventually prevail in the Italian struggle. France was the strongest country in Europe: “There is no ruler capable of confronting them,” he wrote, “and Italy is not what it used to be in Roman times.” But Machiavelli should have known that Fortune has a way of wrecking any human design, no matter how carefully and neatly it may be laid out.
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THE NIGHT PIER SODERINI DIED
The night Pier Soderini died,
At the mouth of Hell he showed his face
“Go to the baby’s Limbo” Pluto cried
“Fools down here are out of place.”
—NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI ON PIERO SODERINI
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