# A posthumous Palazzo Vecchio portrait type makes the secretary a civic face

Date: 1550

## The fact

The Santi di Tito portrait type later held in Palazzo Vecchio, painted decades after 1527, became the public face of the secretary. He did not sit for a 1550s civic icon.

## Context

A civic portrait can integrate a banned writer into city memory and can also prettify raison d’état. Split the Index harm.

[Niccolò Machiavelli](/people/niccolo-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: Musei Civici Fiorentini — Palazzo Vecchio (https://www.museicivicifiorentini.comune.fi.it/en/palazzovecchio/; Comune di Firenze).

## Significance

A municipal portrait is a weak cohesion-access path. Medium confidence.

A municipal portrait is a weak cohesion-access path. Medium confidence.

## 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 [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. 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. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is social-cohesion. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. 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

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/itar/hd_itar.htm
- https://www.museicivicifiorentini.comune.fi.it/en/palazzovecchio/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mc-palazzo-vecchio-portrait