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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GAY PROJECT
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.
LETTERS TO THE TIM : ‘MACHIAVELLI AND THE ENOLA GAY’
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)”.