"But when evening comes I return home and go into my library. At the door I take off my muddy everyday clothes. I dress myself as though I were about to appear before a royal court as a Florentine envoy. Then decently attired I enter the antique courts of the great men of antiquity. They receive me with friendship; from them I derive the nourishment which alone is mine and for which I was born. Without false shame I talk with them and ask them the causes of their actions, and their humanity is so great they answer me. For four long and happy hours I lose myself in them. I forget all my troubles; I am not afraid of poverty or death. I transform myself entirely in their likeness".
Niccolo Machiavelli, Lettere (ed. by G. Lesca (Florence, 1929) pp. 88-90.
This famous passage was written during Machiavelli's banishment from Florence. During the day Machiavelli trapped birds, visited the local inn occasionally and gambled with the locals.
David Perell has many brothers in his self-imposed exile.
Niccolo Machiavelli, Lettere (ed. by G. Lesca (Florence, 1929) pp. 88-90.
This famous passage was written during Machiavelli's banishment from Florence. During the day Machiavelli trapped birds, visited the local inn occasionally and gambled with the locals.
David Perell has many brothers in his self-imposed exile.