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TIL In 2005, a scholar made an off hand suggestion that Niccolo Machiavelli may have been abused by his latin teacher, Paolo Sassi. This caused controversy, with another scholar defending Sassi's ... (jps.library.utoronto.ca)
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Original Title: TIL In 2005, a scholar made an off hand suggestion that Niccolo Machiavelli may have been abused by his latin teacher, Paolo Sassi. This caused controversy, with another scholar defending Sassi's "upright moral standing". Years later, new evidence showed that Sassi was indeed a predator

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