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Niccolò Machiavelli
1526 - Outside Florence
At his farm outside Florence, where exile has thinned his patience, the author of The Prince writes what power actually looks like when you no longer have any.
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Albrecht Dürer
1528 - Nuremberg
I am fifty-six years old and the body has been in decline since Zeeland, since the marsh air and the whale I did not properly see and the fever or corruption I brought back with me as if a journey could not be counted complete without some residue clinging to it.
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Anne Boleyn
1536 - Tower of London
Humiliation, surveillance, and spectacle turning against its former master.
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Henry VIII
1546 - Whitehall
Bodily decline, succession, and the court smelling weakness.
A king whose body is failing faster than his grip on power dictates a version of events no courtier would dare to write.
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Michelangelo
1564 - Rome
I am still at the marble.
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Suleiman the Magnificent
1566 - Camp Outside Szigetvar
In the camp outside Szigetvár, the most powerful sultan in Ottoman history confronts the campaign he knows will be his last.
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Whitehall, London
Alive in this timeline around 1546 to 1603 / story span 1546-1603
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Sant'Andrea in Percussina, outside Florence
Alive in this timeline around 1526 / story span 1526
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Niccolò Machiavelli
1526 - Outside Florence
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At his farm outside Florence, where exile has thinned his patience, the author of The Prince writes what power actually looks like when you no longer have any.
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