[Update1 – Lawrence Ludlow also reminded me of his informative piece on Machiavelli at the FFF site.] While I was only pointing out a wine that I thought was both charming and marginally related to the topics discussed on this blog, a reader has taken things up a notch: Thanks to reader KT for pointing out this interesting article on Machiavelli. Garrett Mattingly makes the case that The Prince is really a subtle satire on the rulers of the day. Thus, Machiavelli is really a sympathetic partisan of liberty rather than an opportunistic cynic. This could very well be. I … Continue reading More on Machiavelli