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Quotation from The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

“Italy, left as without life, waits for him who shall yet heal her wounds”

Niccolo Machiavelli

The Prince, Chapter XXVI, trans. W. K. Marriott (1908)

Portrait of Niccolo Machiavelli

The final exhortation pictures Italy as a wounded, festering body awaiting a redeemer from the house of Medici.

Citation: "Italy, left as without life, waits for him who shall yet heal her wounds" — Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter XXVI, trans. W. K. Marriott (1908). (id the-prince-q12)

Portrait: Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli, Santi di Tito, Public domain.

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