# The restored Medici have Machiavelli arrested and subjected to the strappado

Date: 1513

## The fact

In February 1513, after the Medici return and a conspiracy scare, [Machiavelli](/people/niccolo-machiavelli) was imprisoned and tortured with the strappado, then released to his Sant’Andrea farm.

## Context

Torture of a former republican secretary is a rights and body harm. It is also the condition under which The Prince was then drafted. Split the book onto its own print row.

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: Archivio di Stato di Firenze (https://www.archiviodistato.firenze.it/; Archivio di Stato di Firenze).

## Significance

Coercive interrogation is a [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) harm. A later classic does not rebate the rope.

Coercive interrogation is a humanitarian-access harm. A later classic does not rebate the rope.

## 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 humanitarian-access. 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

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/niccolo-machiavelli_(Dizionario-Biografico)/
- https://www.archiviodistato.firenze.it/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mc-strappado-1513