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DOCTRINE OF DUPLICITY
” For that small matter of lies”, wrote Machiavelli,”I am a doctor and hold my degrees. Life has taught me to confound false and true, till no man knows either”. In ”The Prince” his personal confession becomes a general rule; … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Aristophanes, Cesare Borgia, Charles VIII of France, Florentine Italy, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, King Charles VIII, Machiavelli, Machiavelli The Prince, Neo-Platonism, Plato, Salman Rushdie, Savonarola, William Lee Adams, William Lee Adams Time magazine
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BE SURE TO WEAR SOME FLOWERS IN YOUR HAIR
” If you’re going to San Francisco be sure to wear some flowers in your hair”. The same could be said for Florence,which, in the fifteenth century was a permissive, liberal society. The pendulum of the permissive revolution swung the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, Botticelli, Burning of the Vanities, Florentine Italy, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, G.K. Chesterton, Italian Renaissance, Lorenzo Medici, Medici, Michelangelo, Piero Medici, Renaissance Art, Savonarola
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