I want to be a good father – like Machiavelli

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna When Machiavelli was tortured, then banished from Florence in 1513 to his modest farm in the Tuscan countryside, in the afternoons he used to ‘sink into vulgarity’, as he put it, and play cards and backgammon with the local men in the tavern next to his small house. Then, at the end

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