Machiavellianism (Utility & Atonement)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiavellianism_(psychology)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licio_Gelli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_Due
https://ibiworld.eu/en/licio-gelli-the-man-with-the-power-to-kill-a-pope/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/licio-gelli-businessman-who-became-the-puppet-master-of-the-sinister-rightwing-organisation-p2-a6783576.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Donovan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jesus_Angleton
https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/agency-people-james-angleton-master-spy-hunter/#:~:text=In%20late%201944%20he%20transferred%20to%20Rome%20and%2C,useful%20later%20in%20his%20career%20at%20the%20Agency.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateran_Treaty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Ambrosiano
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_the_Works_of_Religion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Marcinkus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Accardo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lansky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luciano

New York Times, September 14, 1998:
Licio Gelli, the Italian financier arrested last week, had something of a golden touch when it came to geraniums and begonias: more than $1.76 million worth, as it turned out.

The police found 150 gold bars weighing 363 pounds buried in huge terra-cotta pots brimming with flowers that decorate the terrace of his mansion in Tuscany, Italian newspapers reported today.

Mr. Gelli, 79, was a key player in the collapse of Italy's largest private bank, Banco Ambrosiano, brought down in 1983 by $1.3 billion in loans to dummy corporations in Latin America.

He was convicted of complicity in the bank collapse and sentenced to 12 years and eight months in prison. But he slipped away from his mansion in Arezzo, the Villa Wanda, in May shortly after the conviction was upheld.

He was arrested last week in Nice, France.
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/14/world/world-news-briefs-italian-fugitive-lined-flowerpots-with-gold.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Di_Carlo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Cal%C3%B2
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavio_Carboni
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Calvi