I was wondering if anyone could help me with this: How does Machiavelli judge contemporary political actors in Italy, and especially Florence?
Answer on Concerning Machiavelli and Italy's Politics at the time?
His most memorable mission is described in a report of 1503 entitled "Description of the Manner Employed by Duke Valentino [Cesare Borgia] in Slaying Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, Signor Pagolo and the Duke of Gravina, Orsini" with surgical precision he details Borgia's series of political murders, implicitly as a lesson in the art of politics for Florence's indecisive and timorous gonfalonier, Pier Soderini.
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