You could argue that Machiavelli’s entire worldview was comic, but comic in a peculiar way: ironic, wry, a little melancholy, punctuated by an earthy vulgarity that, these days, would get him thrown off a university faculty in a minute.
The Public Domain Review takes a look at the more humorous side of Machiavelli’s writing.
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