Makivelli

It’s Friday, so hang up your scruples and enjoy a few vices.

But don’t do anything too Machiavellian.

Unless you want to of course.

I have gone with a Machievellian theme for this week’s ‘Artist’s Corner’

Because this week I present my fairly rubbish drawing of none other than Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, a man as underhand and duplicitous as they came.

I imagine.

I don’t know, I haven’t done even the most basic research for this.

Maybe he just wrote stuff with duplicitous character in and he was actually a nice chap.

Although, if my artistic rendition is to be believed (and in the end what other evidence do we have?) he probably was a little bit naughty.

4 responses to “Pochi Vedono Come Siamo, Ma Tutti Vedono Quello Che Fingiamo Di Essere”

  1. Chi sta fingendo? Sono davvero senza scrupoli!

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  2. Mostly, Machiavelli was trying to stay alive. Being on the wrong political side could mean your death in fifteenth century Florence. He wrote an Art of War book that was interesting…

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    1. I find the internal politics of my workplace to be challenging enough – I might peruse his work after all…

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