Machiavelli : his life and times / Alexander Lee
2020, 1st edition. London : Picador. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #427941
ISBN: 9781447274995
Physical description; xxii, 762 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 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). Subjects; Machiavelli, Niccolò 1469-1527. 1500-1599. Political scientists Italy ; Biography. Authors, Italian 16th century ; Biography. Biography.
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