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TIL One of Niccolo Machiavelli's many talents was improvised song writing: his friends would try to challenge his rhyming skills by opening a random page of any random Latin poet and asking him to... (archive.today)

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Original Title: TIL One of Niccolo Machiavelli's many talents was improvised song writing: his friends would try to challenge his rhyming skills by opening a random page of any random Latin poet and asking him to translate and turn into into a song, which he was able to do on the spot while playing the lira

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