On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Tom Vogt wrote:
> he also lived in italy.
>
> ca. 1500 in italy is certainly a lot closer to the source than ca. 2000
> in northern america, right?
Ad hominims...so sad. You are of course welcome to your opinion.
So what? We're only just over 200 years after our own countries
independance and we don't seem to understand that? What makes you think he
had some insite to Rome over and above anyone else who understood
politics? Do you seriously believe that considering the history of
printing (Guttenberg dies the year before Machiavelli was born) as well as
history/archiology he had anywhere close to the storehouse of information
about Rome that we have? I will grant he probably had access to a lot of
grandiose stories handed down to promulgate the glory days.
Believe it or not sometimes distance provides a clearer picture.
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