Machiavelli - by Alexander Lee (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>'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 <i>God's Traitors.</i></b><br><b></b><br>'A notorious fiend', 'generally odious', 'he seems hideous, and so he is.'</p><p> Thanks to the invidious reputation of his most famous work, <i>The Prince</i>, 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 personal dramas? </p><p> 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 unobserved connections between Machiavelli's life and thought. He also reveals the world through which Machiavelli moved: from the great halls of Renaissance Florence to the court of the Borgia pope, Alexander VI, from the dungeons of the Stinche prison to the Rucellai gardens, where he would begin work on some of his last great works.</p><p> 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 - and his work - more completely than ever before.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"An entertaining frolic buttressed by serious scholarship." --<i>Kirkus Reviews</i> on <i>The Ugly Renaissance</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Alexander Lee</b> is a research fellow at the University of Warwick. He is the author of four acclaimed books, including T<i>he Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty </i>(a <i>Times Literary Supplement </i>Book of the Year) and <i>Humanism and Empire: The Imperial Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy. </i>He writes a regular column for <i>History Today, </i> and has contributed articles on a wide variety of historical and cultural subjects to the <i>Sunday Telegraph</i>, the <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, the <i>Guardian</i>, the <i>New Statesman</i>, the <i>Times Literary Supplement</i>, and <i>Dissent, </i>and has frequently appeared on BBC television and radio, ITV, Central Television and Sky News. He lives in France.
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