but it produced bruno and davinchi and michael anglo, done tello, dante. i mean, lists of geniuses in a population that small is incredibly impressive and almost inexplicable. but it was a very small town. it has been larger in the middle ages. it had been decimated by the black plague in the 14th century and a population probably slurning by half. so at its peak it was probably a city of about 100,000. >> so what would happen if the people who have a seat over in the house and the senate and the three that don't have voting but are representatives read your book and thought through what machiavelli said back in those years and also read the press? what could they learn from it? >> well, i think i think the greatest contribution he has made to political thought is sort of the look at things practically. he was the philosopher's who came before him, those who wrote about politics before him going back to plato and aristotle and st. thomas equineyuss believed essentially that the world and politics and human society really advanced and really based on someth