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violence. Here Yakup Kadri informs his readers that a blood soaked Cesare Borgia
told Machiavelli how lucky they were to live on the threshold of a great era and
makes it quite clear that great things can only come out of great violence
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:
(…) Sezar Borciya, Floransa’yı zaptettiği, müttefiklerin öldürdüğü,
düşmanlarını ağaca astığı ve tehlikeli yakınlarından bazılarını
zehirlediği bir zulüm, hıyanet ve cinayet gününün akşamında, sanki,
banyodan henüz çıkmış sâf ve sade bir genç kız gibi rehavetlik bir
zindelikle yumuşak bir minder üzerine yaslanarak, gözleri süzülmüş, ağzı
hafifçe gülümse, açık penceresinden henüz yıldızlanan ufuklara bakar.
Yanıbaşında sazcıları, nedimleri, şairleri vardır. Henüz cenk ve cinayetin
tozlarından kanlarından temizlenmemiş başını bir keman ezgisinin
ahengine göre yavaş yavaş sallıyarak yanında oturmakta olan
Makyavele’der ki: “büyük ve ulvî ve muhteşem bir asrın eşiğindeyiz ve
ne mutlu bize ki, bu eşiği ilk geçenlerdeniz.”
(…) In an evening of oppression, treachery and murder, having taken
Florence, having killed his confederates, hanged his enemies and
poisoned the dangerously treacherous near him Cesar Borgia, like a pure
and unadorned young girl who had just emerged from the bath, leaning
softly on a soft mattress his eyelids dropping languorously and his mouth
smiling gently, looked at the still starry horizon through the open
window. Next to him were saz players, intimate friends and poets.
Rocking his head to the tune of a violin, the head which was still in the
battle’s dust and the murders’ blood, turned to Machiavelli sitting next to
him and said: “We are in the threshold of a lofty and magnificent epoch
and how happy we are to be the first ones to cross it.”
The lesson that great things can only come out of great violence is drawn in the next
article
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. The lesson was originally given in 1920 but when repeated in 1929 could
also have been taken to refer to the events of 1925 and 1926:
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Karaosmanoğlu 1973, 10-12:‘Hafta Sohbeti’ (Weekly Chat), 25 May 1920. I have yet to find the words which
Yakup Kadri puts in the mouth of Cesare Borgia. The former’s memory may be at fault because Cesare Borgia
never took Florence.
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Karaosmanoğlu 1973, 21-23: ‘İyimserlik Olmanın Faydası’ (The Value of Being Optimistic), 13 December
1920
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