A historical guide to surviving and thriving in the court of Trump
Enter through the sparkling courtyard, climb the huge staircase – the kind a Renaissance lord could ride his horse up – and cross the throne hall to a shady salon on the first floor. With its view of the Apennine foothills, the ducal palace in Urbino, in the Marche region of Italy, seems a long way from the Washington swamp. Yet for aspiring apparatchiks in today's America, the road to the White House runs through this echoing room. Five hundred years ago, beneath its vaulted ceiling, a formula for political success was distilled. According to Baldassare Castiglione, a diplomat and author, a group of Italian nobles met here to establish 'what manner of man he ought to be who may deserve to be called a perfect Courtier'.
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