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Machiavelli’s Shirt

Machiavelli’s Shirt

Past ideas for a future world. How Machiavelli can help with Climate Change.
Paul Strathern

Machiavelli's Shirt ‘And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?’ W B Yeats, The Second Coming. ‘How could I possibly tell you what the sermon was about? You know that I never listen to such things.’ Machiavelli, in a...

Paul Strathern, interviewed by Deborah Kalb.

Paul Strathern, interviewed by Deborah Kalb.

Paul Strathern

What role did Florence play at the end of the 15th century, and what were some of the factors that led to its prominence? At the end of 15th century Florence had become the epicentre of the Renaissance. This was one of the great cultural resurgences of European...