The Life and Times of Machiavelli with Alexander Lee
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Love Your Wife
In fairness to him, he does love his wife. There's absolutely no doubt that he really loves mariettathere's very little correspondence between them that survives. One of the last letters machiavelli writes in his entire life is to his, one of his younger sons. But loving his wife didn't mean that he wasn't also a rvogue of the first order. He was always, as you say, staying away longer than he should have done. And he was constantly having affairs with girls and guys. We know of a number ofer ladies with whom he had long running affairs. When he's an old man there are a couple who can totally dominate his world
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