{"product_id":"machiavelli-9781447275008","title":"Machiavelli","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA comprehensive, authoritative and highly original portrait of one of history's most unjustly infamous characters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is a life of Machiavelli that must surely be definitive in its faithfulness to the man and his experience of his time . . . Lee presents a novel interpretation of his subject's thinking. -- John Gray * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eDetailed, accessible and authoritative . . . an utterly absorbing month-by-month, often day-by-day account of Machiavelli's life and career. -- John Guy * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eA fine new biography. -- Simon Heffer * Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eA superb work of scholarship, securely grounded in the turbulent Italy of Machiavelli's day, and unflinchingly truthful . . . Lee retells the stories of plagues and brush-offs, of brothels, betrayals and massacres, in a brisk and compelling style. -- Ferdinand Mount * Prospect *\u003cbr\u003e[A] weighty and impressively detailed biography -- Michael Prodger * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e[T]he definitive book on Machiavelli -- Christopher Hart * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eGod's Traitors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Lee’s \u003ci\u003eMachiavelli: His Life and Times\u003c\/i\u003e sets a wholly new standard for English-language biographies of the Florentine thinker, synthesising recent academic research and placing his subject in a vividly described context of Renaissance society and everyday life -- Tony Barber * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eHis life and times are presented in their complex, contradictory fullness, as is Machiavelli himself . . . Lee is to be especially applauded for his even-handed treatment of a controversial historical figure. -- Joanne Paul * BBC History Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eFrom Lee's magisterial biography, rich in detail and light on speculation, the writer emerges as a flawed but markedly fascinating individual -- Nicholas Cranfield * Church Times *\u003cbr\u003e[A] fine new biography ... Lee tells his story with verve. -- Lauro Martines * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eImmensely readable . . . Machiavelli emerges from Lee’s account as one of the Italian Renaissance’s greatest figures. * Financial Times 'Books of the Summer' *\u003cbr\u003eSuch is its hefty size that I set out to read Alexander Lee’s \u003ci\u003eMachiavelli \u003c\/i\u003eat a lick. However, it is so rich in granular detail – not just about the surprisingly hapless man himself, but about Florentine society and the wars that scudded across Renaissance Italy – that I was forced to take it slowly, and was rewarded handsomely. -- Michael Prodger * New Statesman 'Books of the Year' *\u003cbr\u003eLee’s exhaustive, balanced and immensely readable work, sets a wholly new standard for English-language biographies of Machiavelli. -- Tony Barber * Financial Times 'Books of the Year' *","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867103998295,"sku":"9781447275008","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781447275008.jpg?v=1722281702","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/machiavelli-9781447275008","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}