#78: History
Feb 9th, 2008 by lavonardo
This week’s photo thursday challenge is history.
My take on the subject is a picture of Niccolo Macchiavelli’s statue located outside the Uffizi Galleria in Florence. The author of the Prince certainly made his mark on history with his opportunistic guidelines for wannabe rulers, of whom there was no shortage of in medieval Italy.
On account of a technical mishap (back in 2003, not today), what you see is what you get, almost - the resolution on the original did not take advantage of the camera’s capabilities.
Yo, check: http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/1238/img004rp3.jpg
Nice.
But is that a proper florentine holding? Where are the poisoned and backstabbed relatives and the mercenaries milling around?
Something in his expression makes me wonder, what devious schemes he had in his mind, when this statue was created.
Probably nothing obviously heinous, but devious indeed.
After all, it’s far easier to retain plausible deniability if you just gently nudge someone towards taking inadvisable action as opposed to working yourself…
(Which reminds me that I’ve still yet to read the doubleheader of Medici and Macchiavelli biographies bought last year.)