Machiavelli! What a fascinating guy! And Catherine dei Medici, who turned out to be the principe, or principessa, for whom it was intended. Such tragedy in her life. Such tragedy she caused. What a guide to the internecine politics of Florence. I wonder what he would have made of our present world situation? What clever poems you have written.
There are a few upsets of rhyming couplets: but 'the end justifies the means'?
Machiavelli! What a fascinating guy! And Catherine dei Medici, who turned out to be the principe, or principessa, for whom it was intended. Such tragedy in her life. Such tragedy she caused. What a guide to the internecine politics of Florence. I wonder what he would have made of our present world situation? What clever poems you have written.
Great choice of subject. I was tempted by Cesare Borgia but the rhyming defeated me!