In this compelling new biography, historian Niccolo 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.
- ISBN10 6612788526
- ISBN13 9786612788529
- Publish Date 29 June 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 September 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Da Capo Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 334
- Language English