Machiavelli on Livy.
That changes in Sects and Tongues, and the happening of Floods and Pestilences, obliterate the Memory of the Past
In this chapter, M, an Italian in an age when Christians, and especially Italians, still smarted from the final obliteration of Byzantium, exaggerates the sins of Christianity against the past and ignores the much more recent and dreadful sins of Islam.
Why?
Btw, I am surprised at how much pure superstition and magical thinking M reveals.
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