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Internal exile at Sant’Andrea in Percussina follows imprisonment and ends salaried urban work

After the 1513 torture and release, Machiavelli’s productive life was farm isolation plus unpaid writing, a documented loss of urban office and a strain the letters record as melancholy and bodily complaint. In the causal graph this event weakens Infectious-Disease Transmission, a driver that weakens Life expectancy at birth — an improving welfare path.

Internal exile at Sant’Andrea in Percussina follows imprisonment and ends salaried urban work

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After the 1513 torture and release, Machiavelli’s productive life was farm isolation plus unpaid writing, a documented loss of urban office and a strain the letters record as melancholy and bodily complaint. This is not a clinical diagnosis.

Context

Letters mention health and boredom. They are not a hospital series.

Niccolò Machiavelli is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

Do record exile as a health-adjacent welfare cost of the purge.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Niccolo Machiavelli

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.16 · verified

    Florentine secretary and writer as documented. Printers, censors, and later rulers reuse the name.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Letters of Machiavelli — Internet ArchiveInternet Archive · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Niccolò MachiavelliEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorNiccolo Machiavelli
  2. contributed toFactInternal exile at Sant’Andrea in Percussina follows imprisonment and ends salaried urban work
  3. weakensDriverInfectious-Disease Transmission
  4. weakensIndicatorLife expectancy at birth

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Factrail. (2026). Internal exile at Sant’Andrea in Percussina follows imprisonment and ends salaried urban work. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/mc-health-exile-santandrea

https://factrail.ai/facts/mc-health-exile-santandrea

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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