Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli by Santi di Tito, painted in the second half of the sixteenth century, decades after Machiavelli's death in 1527; it hangs in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. He wears a black gown over red sleeves, one hand resting on a book.Santi di Tito, 1550–1600 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
