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[Cesare Borgia seated with Machiavelli] – Vintage Print

[Cesare Borgia seated with Machiavelli], c1898. — historic photograph
[Cesare Borgia seated with Machiavelli], c1898.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [Cesare Borgia seated with Machiavelli] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Few pairings in Renaissance history are as pointed as Cesare Borgia, the ruthless son of Pope Alexander VI, seated beside Niccolò Machiavelli. The two men crossed paths in 1502, when Machiavelli served as a Florentine envoy observing Cesare's campaigns in central Italy, and Machiavelli's later treatise *The Prince* drew heavily on what he saw of Cesare's methods. This photograph reproduces a painting by Federico Faruffini, an Italian artist who died young in 1869. Its copyright registration and date around 1898 show how widely photographic copies of well-known paintings circulated in that period.

Created / publishedc1898.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePaintings 1800-1900 Reproductions.Photographic prints 1890-1900.
Notes40180 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of painting by Federico Faruffini (1833-1869).
SubjectsBorgia, Cesare,--1476-1507. Machiavelli, Niccoló,--1469-1527.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,348 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-177700

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