Nel’s Reviews > Machiavelli: His Life and Times > Status Update

last part left. today we finish this.

There, he scoured ‘every nook and cranny one by one,’ until, eventually, he happened upon a likely-looking ‘young thrush’. After satisfying himself that the bird’s ‘disposition was generous’, Niccolò started kissing it, and then ‘ministered to several of its hind feathers.

[bird=rent boy]
i like how hes just casually sharing his gayscapades with his friend Vettori. florentines, eh.

Still another, Donato del Corno, had opened a new shop, which, judging by Niccolò’s rather arch description, was actually a male brothel – and it seems that Donato was not above sampling his wares.

its always the men named Donato.

i got so fed up reading about politics - and its the same shit over and over again - i had to skim. niccolò is about to be sacked from florence. exciting times!

most of this book is niccolò trying to negotiate while signoria just drags their balls and cant decide on anything. no wonder the medici eventually ousted them.

“During his brief encounter with Cesare in Urbino, he had been struck by the duke’s dashing appearance and martial spirit: This lord is very splendid and magnificent.”

bro totally had a crush on mr red minefield.

yeah 700 pages...its a long haul

Even the bell of San Marco was punished: removed from its tower, it was whipped as it was dragged through the streets, and exiled for fifty years.

take that u wicked bell. no more tolling for u!

niccolò writing love poetry to giuliano medici was not on my bingo card tonight but ok we roll.