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. . .In the popular imagination Sir Thomas Malory en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Malory has been identified with the fictive chivalry of his tales. Actually he was a most unchivalrous knight who led a spectacular criminal career, which began with attempted murder and moved on to rape, extortion, robbery of churches, theft of deer and cattle, and promiscuous vandalism. He wrote his most persuasive romanced behind the bars.

Malory has been spared; Niccolo Machiavelli has been slandered. Machiavelli was a principled Florentine and a gifted observed of contemporary Italy; his concise ‘II principe’ reveals profound insight into human nature and an acute grasp of political realith in ths scene he saw. Nevertheless, because of that very book, he has been the victim of a double injustice. Though he was only analyzing his age, later generations have not only interpreted the work as cynical, unscrupulous, and immo0ral; they have turned his very name to a pejorative. In fact, he was a passionate, devout Christian who was appaled by the morality of his age, in an introspective self-portrait he wrote:

“Io rido, e rider mio non passa dentro;
Io ardo, e l’arsion mia non par di fore.”

I laugh, and my laughter is not within me;
I burn, and the burning is not seen outside. ~ Page 100
4 years ago.

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