The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior - by Paul Strathern (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A meticulous account of Renaissance Italy during the turbulent decade around 1500, with emphasis on several important players: Alexander Borgia (also known as Pope Alexander VI) and his son Cesare, Machiavelli the philosopher-diplomat and author of The Prince, and Leonardo da Vinci--inventor, artist, and military engineer.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia--three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different, and they would meet only for a short time in 1502, but the events that transpired when they did would significantly alter each man's perceptions--and the course of Western history. <p/>In 1502, Italy was riven by conflict, with the city of Florence as the ultimate prize. Machiavelli, the consummate political manipulator, attempted to placate the savage Borgia by volunteering Leonardo to be Borgia's chief military engineer. That autumn, the three men embarked together on a brief, perilous, and fateful journey through the mountains, remote villages, and hill towns of the Italian Romagna--the details of which were revealed in Machiavelli's<i> </i>frequent dispatches and Leonardo's meticulous notebooks. <p/>Superbly written and thoroughly researched, <i>The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior</i> is a work of narrative genius--whose subject is the nature of genius itself.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Using his novelist's eye and a historian's sweep, Strathern . . . makes you care deeply for these complex figures."--<i>The Washington Post Book World</i> <p/>"[A] rigorous and scholarly yet readable study of the confluence of three major Renaissance figures. Accessible and impressive in scope."--<i>Kirkus Reviews</i> <p/>"Readers will reel at this meticulous popular account of Renaissance tyranny, corruption, injustice and atrocities."--<i>Publishers Weekly</i> <p/> "This is popular history at its narrative best--rich in colour, character and consequence."--<i>The Times </i>(London) <p/> "The book breaks new ground."--<i>San Antonio Express-News</i> <p/> "A triumph."--<i>The Sunday Telegraph</i> (London)<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Paul Strathern has lectured in philosophy and mathematics and is a Somerset Maugham Prize-winning novelist. He is the author of two series--<i>Philosophers in 90 Minutes</i> and <i>The Big Idea: Scientists Who Changed the World</i>--<b>Napoleon in Egypt</b>, and the <i>Sunday Times</i> bestseller <i>The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance</i>. He lives in London.
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