I no longer believed that Valentino would continue to build anything at all. Instead, he would merely leave behind the empire of hope that he had constructed in each of our minds. Leonardo’s empire boasted...

I did not have an answer for the maestro that day. Instead my answer has been the labor of my life, principally my Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livy but also my little...

This explained to me–and I suppose, forgave me–my inability to see the face of this man, because whoever must deceive us in order to live will by necessity far exceed the skill of ordinary men,...