Machiavelli his life and times

  • An exhaustive and comprehensive biography which is written in a lovely style, easy even for non-native speakers to read.
  • As much a portrait of an age as of a uniquely engaging man, Lee's gripping and definitive biography takes the reader into Machiavelli's world –.
  • It is truly a brilliant work of nonfiction, greatly researched and amazingly written.

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    Synopsis

    'A wonderfully assured and utterly riveting biography that captures not only the much-maligned Machiavelli, but also the spirit of his time and place. A monumental achievement.' – Jessie Childs, author of God's Traitors.

    ‘A notorious fiend’, ‘generally odious’, ‘he seems hideous, and so he is.’

    Thanks to the invidious reputation of his most famous work, The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli exerts a unique hold over the popular imagination. But was Machiavelli as sinister as he is often thought to be? Might he not have been an infinitely more sympathetic figure, prone to political missteps, professional failures and anställda dramas?

    Alexander Lee reveals the man behind the myth, following him from cradle to grave, from his father’s penury and the abuse he suffered at a teacher’s hands, to his marriage and his many affairs (with both men and women), to his political triumphs and, ultimately, his fall from grace and exile. In doing so, Lee uncovers hitherto unobserv

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    Machiavelli: His Life and Times

    July 28,
    My copy of “Machiavelli: His Life and Times” by Alexander Lee arrived at the start of July. I put it aside as I had other reading commitments but I was constantly being drawn to the book, like it was screaming at me to read it. Finally, I buckled to the pressure and started reading it, and then it had me, I couldn’t put the book down.

    The hardback edition is pages in length, pages of narrative; the rest is Bibliography, Notes and Index. There are two maps covering Italy and Tuscany, a family tree for Machiavelli and the Medici, along with two sections of colour plates (35 pictures in total).

    I must confess that this has been the first dedicated biography of Machiavelli that I have read. Of course, I have come across him in my reading of Italy and the Renaissance but this is the first book on the man that I have picked up. Although I have no other titles on the subject to make a comparison I can honestly say that this was a delightful, inte

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