Gee Will's article (Edorial Pag, July 15), "Machiavelli and the Enola Gay," summariz the mon wisdom jtifyg the cisn to open the Atomic Age at the expense of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Vettori’s speech seems to allu more to heterosexual adventur, both of Machiavelli and Vettori, both very ee sexual behavr, rather than to homosexualy, but, as we will see, Machiavelli certaly did not disda even homosexual adventur and probably a siar disurse uld also be done for Vettori. The accatn is about sodomy but wh a woman, the vox populi (popular mor) who tri to discred Machiavelli, a polilly important man, married and wh several children, do not therefore nta any reference to homosexualy, which would have been, on the other hand, not very credible. Machiavelli remembers that Vettori had wrten four vers about a certa Ricc (“a guy wh curly hair”), a guy available to homosexual ntacts, also ditg the nam of those who had been put “ berta” (had been ridiculed) bee they had gone wh Ricc.
Machiavelli reced those vers om memory to Gvanni Machiavelli, th accg him of homosexual activi. Gvanni Machiavelli took badly and tried to sist, sayg “that he do not know where you have found that he touch (touchg means havg homosexual relatnships the cryptic jargon of Florente homosexuals)”. Vettori had not acced Gvanni Machiavelli of homosexualy, but was Niclò who, by changg the nam, had given the imprsn that stead he had done so.
LETTERS TO THE TIM : ‘MACHIAVELLI AND THE ENOLA GAY’
So, then, Machiavelli wrote to Vettori that had shown him that he was worried about the fact that havg hosted his hoe ser Sano, a well-known homosexual, uld discred him through the gossip of Filippo Casavecchia, and explas to Vettori that Filippo Casavecchia, another well-known homosexual and iend of Machiavelli, would never have cricized Vettori even if ser Sano had remaed at his hoe om one jubilee to another, and ed he would have ngratulated Vettori for the choice. And the Brancc then, another well-known homosexual iend of Machiavelli, wouldn’t have dared to ment even if Vettori had taken home the whole brothel of Valencia, ed he would have nsired him a great man more for this than if he had seen him talk better than Demosthen before the Pope. Giuliano Brancci, eager, so to speak, to go to the bh [which means to go search of homosexual ntacts], one eveng a few days ago, after the Ave Maria, seeg that the weather was overst and wdy and that was begng to drizzle (all thgs that you n well believe that every bird [obscene alln to homosexuals] was), back home, put on a pair of big sho [like those ed to hunt], tied the game bag to the belt, took wh him a lantern and the tools to hunt the birds, and went away for a while snakg through the alleys that lead to the center of the cy, and not fdg birds wag for him, he went to the parts of the goldsmh that you know, he went a ltle further and, lookg very refully at the plac where the birds ed to hi, he found a betiful young thsh and ught him g his tools to pture birds and took him to the bottom of the rave, unr the ve where Panzano ed to stay.
So far, as we have seen, Machiavelli mak homosexualy a theme for spicy stori the manner of Boccc, also hts at his “touchg” that is at the fact that he do not disda homosexual activi, but so far lacks the emotnal dimensn of homosexualy. However, a letter to the Vettori of Augt 3th, 1514 [10] shows that Machiavelli also felt the affective si of homosexualy. If there is still any doubt that is a homosexual love, will be easily dispelled by a letter om Vettori to Machiavelli dated January 16th, 1515 [11].