Machiavelli & Reynard the Fox
The Medici Crest In 1513,[1] fifteen years before Castiglione published his Cortegiano (1528), Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469-1527), published The Prince (Il Principe), first entitled De...
View ArticleReynard the Fox: the trickster
A studious fox in a monk’s cowl, in the margins of a Book of Hours, Utrecht, c 1460 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Sources: the Sick Lion tale The fox is beast literature’s foremost trickster and, as we...
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