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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Sam who wrote (539348)9/26/2025 10:35:50 PM
From: S. maltophilia   of 541390
 
The Prince, chapter 7

Hopefully history won't rhyme here:

....At this point the duke decided that such draconian
powers were no longer necessary and might cause resentment.
So he set up a civil court of law in the middle of the territory
9780141442259_ThePrince_TXT.indd 28 28/05/2015 14:14
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to which every town was to send a representative and he
placed a distinguished man in charge. And since he was aware
that the recent severity had led some people to hate him, in
order to have them change their minds, and hence win them
over entirely to his side, he decided to show that if the regime
had been cruel, that was due to the brutal nature of his
minister, not to him. So as soon as he found a pretext, he had
de Orco beheaded and his corpse put on display one morning
in the piazza in Cesena with a wooden block and a bloody
knife beside. The ferocity of the spectacle left people both
gratified and shocked....

deOrco || Stephen Miller? The DUI hire, I still see as a stupid version of a court jester. Were those common in Renaissance Italy?
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