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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 2 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ranaway--$5 Reward (search)
. It could not conceive how a man who had been tortured and banished, for his exertions in defence of liberty, could invite a manual for the instruction of tyrants. Innumerable theories were broached to explain the riddle, all of them ingenious, and all equally wide of the mark, in that long interval which lies between the age of Cardinal Pole and the days of Macaulay. At last, about fifteen years ago, an original letter from Machiavelli, accompanying the dedication of the Prince to Lorenzo de Medici the younger, was discovered in the archives of Florence, and the mystery was cleared up in an instant. The great poet, historian, and philosopher had become weary of exile. He longed for the refined society and brilliant conversation of Florence. If suffering had not rendered him a less ardent patriot, yet events had taught him the hopelessness of his cause. The Prince was written as a peace-offering which was to prepare the way for his return, and that was all. Two traits, ve