http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/16/these-bombs-were-not-put-together-in-the-garage/ She escaped from the belly of the liberal beast Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:47:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/16/these-bombs-were-not-put-together-in-the-garage/#comment-23571 Bookworm Fri, 16 May 2008 18:10:56 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2916#comment-23571 You are more erudite than I am, pacificus. I've always heard it as a colloquialism, and simply assumed it was a reference to Machiavelli! You are more erudite than I am, pacificus. I’ve always heard it as a colloquialism, and simply assumed it was a reference to Machiavelli!

]]> http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/16/these-bombs-were-not-put-together-in-the-garage/#comment-23568 pacificus Fri, 16 May 2008 17:45:28 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2916#comment-23568 Re: "the fine Italian hand"; I was not aware this was a colloquialism. I first came across it in Leo Strauss' Natural Right and History, where he mentions that the unsubtle Thomas Hobbes did not have "the fine hand of his Italian master"--meaning Niccolo Machaivelli. Re: “the fine Italian hand”; I was not aware this was a colloquialism. I first came across it in Leo Strauss’ Natural Right and History, where he mentions that the unsubtle Thomas Hobbes did not have “the fine hand of his Italian master”–meaning Niccolo Machaivelli.

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