Kirsty Jane Falconer is a writer and translator living in Poggibonsi. Her work has appeared in The Tablet, Times Literary Supplement and The Honest Ulsterman. She is writing a novel about Machiavelli’s time in exile, incorporating creative adaptations of his poetry and letters.
In Florence, city of pilgrimages, it can be hard to find Niccolò Machiavelli. The house in via de’ Guicciardini, where he lived from his birth in 1469 to his ...