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

Date: 1513

## The fact

After the 1513 torture and release, [Machiavelli](/people/niccolo-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. Store a low-confidence capacity-and-body cost of political punishment.

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.

## Evidence and sources

Official or archival pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Letters of Machiavelli — Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/lettersofmachiav00machrich; Internet Archive).

## Significance

Do not write a 1513 disease code. Do record exile as a health-adjacent welfare cost of the purge.

Do not write a 1513 disease code. Do record exile as a health-adjacent welfare cost of the purge.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is infectious-disease-transmission. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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.

## People

- Niccolo Machiavelli: https://factrail.ai/people/niccolo-machiavelli

## Drivers

- Infectious-Disease Transmission: https://factrail.ai/drivers/infectious-disease-transmission

## Sources

- https://archive.org/details/lettersofmachiav00machrich
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Niccolo-Machiavelli

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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