Niccolò Machiavelli
1526 - Outside Florence
At his farm outside Florence, where exile has thinned his patience, the author of The Prince writes what power actually looks like when you no longer have any.
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1526 - Outside Florence
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At his farm outside Florence, where exile has thinned his patience, the author of The Prince writes what power actually looks like when you no longer have any.
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1955 - Hyde Park Gate, London
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1524 - Cochin
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1519 - Château du Clos Lucé, Amboise
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The right hand has ceased from certain offices, not from the design entire, and I begin there because it is necessary to place the matter correctly from the first line.
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1520 - Rome
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I am thirty-seven years old and something is wrong with my body.
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1536 - Tower of London
Humiliation, surveillance, and spectacle turning against its former master.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
In the Tower of London, waiting for a verdict she already knows, a queen sets down what Henry will never allow to be read.
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1955 - Hyde Park Gate, London
state-power
A contrasting life shaped by state power.
After the war, after the applause, after the second stroke — a prime minister reckons with what victory actually cost.
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1521 - Cebu
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
Having carried Castile across the ocean he named, a navigator feels command slipping and writes what the voyage actually cost.
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1524 - Cochin
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
Broken by fever in Cochin, the man who found the sea route to India confronts what the Estado became in other men's hands.
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