![]() ![]() ![]() In this book, Erica Benner follows Machiavelli's dramatic quest for political and human freedom through his own eyes. In the republic of Florence, Machiavelli and his contemporaries faced a choice: should they capitulate to these new princes, or fight to save the city's democratic freedoms? Niccolò Machiavelli lived in a fiercely competitive world, one where brute wealth, brazen liars and ruthless self-promoters seemed to carry off all the prizes and a new breed of leaders - super-rich dynasties like the Medici or military strongmen like Cesare Borgia - promised radical alternatives to the status quo. ![]() An enjoyably revisionist biography and a warning from the past about our world today ![]()
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