Download or read book Machiavelli written by Alexander Lee and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 personal 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 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. 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.
Download or read book The Life and Times of Niccol Machiavelli written by Pasquale Villari and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Life and Times of Niccol Machiavelli written by Golgotha Press and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2011 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niccolò Machiavelli is a name that is often brought up by politicians as an influence to their work. We know his work, but who was the man? What inspired him? Find out in this short biography about the life and times of Niccolò Machiavelli.
Download or read book Niccol Machiavelli written by Corrado Vivanti and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introduction to Medieval Europe 300-1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history, covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the impact of Christianization, the formation of nations and states, the emergence of an expansionist commercial economy, the growth of cities, the Crusades, the effects of plague, and the intellectual and cultural life of the Middle Ages. The book explores the driving forces behind the formation of medieval society and the directions in which it developed and changed. In doing this, the authors cover a wide geographic expanse, including Western interactions with the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic World."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Prince written by Niccolo Machiavelli and published by Wyatt North Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the 16th century, The Prince remains one of the most influential books on political theory. Its author, Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat and political theorist, and is considered the father of modern political thought.
Download or read book Machiavelli written by Miles Unger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few philosophers are more often referred to and more often misunderstood than Machiavelli. He was truly a product of the Renaissance, and he was as much a revolutionary in the field of political philosophy as Leonardo or Michelangelo were in painting and sculpture. He watched his native Florence lose its independence to the French, thanks to poor leadership from the Medici successors to the great Lorenzo (Il Magnifico). Machiavelli was a keen observer of people, and he spent years studying events and people before writing his famous books. Descended from minor nobility, Machiavelli grew up in a household that was run by a vacillating and incompetent father. He was well educated and smart, and he entered government service as a clerk. He eventually became an important figure in the Florentine state but was defeated by the deposed Medici and Pope Julius II. He was tortured but eventually freed by the restored Medici. No longer employed, he retired to his home to write the books for which he is remembered. Machiavelli had seen the best and the worst of human nature, and he understood how the world operated. He drew his observations from life, and he was appropriately cynical in his writing, given what he had personally experienced. He was an outstanding writer, and his work remains fascinating nearly 500 years later.
Download or read book The Life and Times of Niccol Machiavelli written by Pasquale Villari and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Machiavelliana written by Michael Jackson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machiavelliana is the first comprehensive study of the uses and abuses made of Niccolò Machiavelli’s name in management, primatology, leadership, power, as well as in novels, plays, commercial enterprises, television dramas, operas, rap music, children’s books, and more.
Download or read book The Life of Niccol Machiavelli written by Roberto Ridolfi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Macchiavelli is widely regarded as Ridolfi’s masterpiece and is based on much material drawn from private and public archives. It presents a fresh interpretation of Macchiavelli’s career and writings and here, for example the dating of the composition of such famous works as the Prince and the Mandragola is established for the first time. This English translation, when originally published in 1963 included numerous correction and additions which brought it up to date with the most recent studies on Macchiavelli and his works.
Download or read book Machiavelli The Prince written by Niccolo Machiavelli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-10-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Skinner presents a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text as a response to the world of Florentine politics.
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Download or read book An Unlikely Prince written by Niccolò Capponi and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the revolutionary political philosopher challenges popular beliefs about the cruelty of his character to reveal the complexities and sympathetic nature of his personality.
Download or read book The Life of Niccol Machiavelli Routledge Library Editions Political Science Volume 26 written by Roberto Ridolfi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Macchiavelli is widely regarded as Ridolfi’s masterpiece and is based on much material drawn from private and public archives. It presents a fresh interpretation of Macchiavelli’s career and writings and here, for example the dating of the composition of such famous works as the Prince and the Mandragola is established for the first time. This English translation, when originally published in 1963 included numerous correction and additions which brought it up to date with the most recent studies on Macchiavelli and his works.
Download or read book An Unlikely Prince written by Niccolo Capponi and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling new biography, historian Niccolò Capponi frees Machiavelli (1469–1527) from centuries of misinterpretation. Exploring the Renaissance city of Florence, where Machiavelli lived, Capponi reveals the man behind the legend. A complex portrait of Machiavelli emerges—at once a brilliantly skillful diplomat and a woefully inept liar; a sharp thinker and an impractical dreamer; a hardnosed powerbroker and a risk-taking gambler; a calculating propagandist and an imprudent jokester. Capponi's intimate portrait of Machiavelli reveals his behavior as utterly un-Machiavellian, his vision of the world as limited by his very provincial outlook. In the end, Machiavelli was frustrated by his own political failures and utterly baffled by the success of his book The Prince.
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