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04158aam a2200301 i 4500 001 DFDC27B0EDAA11EA9A34A78C36ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20200903010031 008 191104s2020 enkabf b 001 0beng d 020 $a 1447274997 020 $a 9781447274995 035 $a (OCoLC)1140145501 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d SINLB $d YDX $d EEM $d FIE $d OCL $d SILO 043 $a e-it--- 050 4 $a JC143 M4 L44 2020 100 1 $a Lee, Alexander $c (Historian) $e author. 245 10 $a Machiavelli : $b his life and times / $c Alexander Lee. 264 1 $a London : $b Picador, $c 2020. 300 $a xxii, 762 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 573-604) and index. 505 0 $a Part I - The Pygmy (1469-98). Inauspicious beginnings (1469-76) ; The golden age (1476-85) ; From a pygmy to a giant (1485-98) -- Part II - The Apprentice (1498-1500). The new republic (June 1498-February 1499) ; The first tests (March-July 1499) ; The fog of war (August 1499-July 1500) ; La chasse (July-December 1500) -- Part III - The Man (1501-3). The gathering storm (January-October 1501) ; The whirlwind (October 1501-July 1502) ; The eye of the storm (August 1502-January 1503) ; The wind changes (January-December 1503) -- Part IV - The Hand of Fate (1504-8). The militant (January 1504-February 1506) ; Fortune favours the brave (February-December 1506) ; The emperor (January 1507-June 1508) ; Part V - The Prisoner of Fortune (1508-13). Old scores, new enemies (June 1508-June 1509) ; Walking the tightrope (July 1509-September 1510) ; Things fall apart (September 1510-September 1512) ; 'Ministers of violence' (September 1512-March 1513) -- Part VI - The Outsider (1513-19). Slumming with the lice (March-December 1513) ; Princely aspirations (December 1513-August 1514) ; The garden of delights (August 1514-March 1519) ; The radical conservative -- Part VII - The Prodigal Son. Deaths and resurrection (March 1519-April 1520) ; A second apprenticeship (April-December 1520) ; The republic of clogs (January-December 1521) ; Love, labour, loss (December 1521-March 1525) ; 'This ruined world' -- Old man in a hurry (March 1525-September 1526) ; A bang and a whimper (September 1526-June 1527) ; The art of dying (June 1527). 520 $a '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, NiccoloÌ 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. -- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Machiavelli, NiccoloÌ, $d 1469-1527. 650 0 $a Political scientists $z Italy $v Biography. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220303011034.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DFDC27B0EDAA11EA9A34A78C36ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search