Political chair

The students were busy to different actions, who read a book, who is writing a letter who spoke to other, while the master was gone in class, and: “Good morning lords, I could will your attention, if it isn’t excessive to your affairs”, the students were every composed and glazed the master, who: “Thank you for your attention, but if you want you can go away, but after alone you are going to say it to Julian of Medici, lord of Florence”; the students heard these words and when Niccolò has had the attention he begun: “The politic science is alone formally a science of politeness and diplomatic words, I give to you an example: when Philip king of Macedonia received the Persian ambassadors, he was polite and elegant, even luxurious, but after the gifts and other protocol words, he and Alexander, his son, and the ambassadors in a neighbor rooms spoken about politic; Philip wanted the peace in Greece, and the Persian wanted the same; they wanted the very good rapports with Greece and its cities; after this dialogue Alexander the Great, again young, asked to his father what has been cleared and what were intentions, and Philip answered that, they and he one other hasn’t said nothing, and Alexander asked: “What is utility of these meeting?”, and Philip: “For smell each other”, and Philip: “Yes in fact the true politic hasn’t of words, he thrust more of his nose. For example, in your opinion to him likes the girls or young?”, and Alexander excited curiosity: “To whom?”, and Philip: “To our hostess, obvious”, and Alexander: “I not a clue”, and Philip: He like the young. It seems that he gazed the blond young that served the wine, this night he is going to have this young in his bed”. A student particularly attentive after that he heard these words asked: “Mister…”, and Niccolò: “Dear thank you but my name is Niccolò and I prefer that you call me so”, and student accustomed to speak with person more great with you, as respect, was amazed, but he took the question and: “I would know what are the better states?”, and Niccolò answer: “I say that the state hereditary and accustomed to a family of their lord are less difficult to keep, because it is sufficient don’t beyond the past administration, and take time in case of difficult, and if this lord is in average he keep his state, unless a stranger force took this state”, and student: “Whereby the stare hereditary is better!”, and Niccolò: “The natural lord must offender less than other, and to him is necessary that he is loved, if he hasn’t extraordinary vices, he is going to love from subject”. Other student: “The new states are dangerous?”, and Niccolò: “No, but these are more difficult”, and same student: “Why?”, and Niccolò: “Because you have enemies, after the conquest, this is everybody that you have deprived and you can’t keep friends everybody that have aided you to conquest because you can’t satisfy them as they wanted or imagined; thereupon these states are very risky, because they are ready to betray you every moment, and they give you to enemy when you have unsatisfied them. We must also consider that we are  living in a historical time that is going to pass, because may to future the men become different therefore these strategy and these ascertainments are alone momentary, because for future it is different, with similar principles, but I am sure that the model is going to be the same, with modifications, but the govern of one alone is permanent”, thereupon he ended his lesson and after greeted  everybody, and a student asked: “Where are you going?”, he gazed him and: “To Florence where Julian de Medici want me”.

Alessandro Lusana