MAQ Magazine n. 14 / September 2019
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"More so! The "Cenacolo" must pass to you! Everyone must be convinced that, underneath, it is you who decide the good that people will have or the stabs they will take... That said, the baron is the owner far away, but the one near and dangerous is you!
"With what advantage?
"Fear works better than fidelity, as that Florentine colleague of yours, that Nicolò Machiavelli, who we all criticize during the day and study at night, wrote... At Melitello everyone must feel an inexorable punishment looming, if only the idea of making a fool of himself passes through his head! Fear, finally, is the best weapon to stop the worst weapon: gossip!"
"You ask me little, Master Rodrigo! I must... just as soon as... squander my money to become an intriguing one worse than Don Luigi!
"It's painting, I told you! Have you seen the beautiful retable of the master Antonello in Santa Maria della Stella?"