Machiavelli: His Life and Times by Lee, Alexander
Machiavelli: His Life and Times by Lee, Alexander

Machiavelli: His Life and Times

'A wonderfully assured and utterly riveting biography that captures not only the much-maligned Machiavelli, but also the...
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Machiavelli: His Life and Times by Lee, Alexander

Machiavelli: His Life and Times

$81.50
Machiavelli: His Life and Times by Lee, Alexander

Machiavelli: His Life and Times

$81.50
Author: Alexander Lee
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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'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, Niccol? 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.



Author: Alexander Lee
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 03/18/2021
Pages: 768
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 7.79h x 5.16w x 1.46d
ISBN: 9781447275008

About the Author
Alexander Lee is a research fellow at the University of Warwick. He is the author of four acclaimed books, including The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty (a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year) and Humanism and Empire: The Imperial Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy. He writes a regular column for History Today, and has contributed articles on a wide variety of historical and cultural subjects to the Sunday Telegraph, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the New Statesman, the Times Literary Supplement, and Dissent, and has frequently appeared on BBC television and radio, ITV, Central Television and Sky News. He lives in France.


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