1 The Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, where Machiavelli worked in the second chancery from 1498 until 1512
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2 The title-page of one of the numerous early Venetian editions of The Prince
3 The title-page of Edward Dacres’s translation of The Prince, the earliest English version to be printed
4 Portrait of Machiavelli by Santi di Tito in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
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5 Machiavelli’s writing desk in his house in Sant’ Andrea in Percussina, south of Florence, where he composed The Prince in 1513
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