Niccolo Machiavelli

A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Philosophers)

De: Hourly History

Narrado por: David Peacock

Discover the remarkable life of Niccolo Machiavelli...
Machiavelli's very name is synonymous with strategy and cunning. This is no hyperbole—the term "Machiavellian" has long been part of our vocabulary. And it all traces back to one man: Niccolo Machiavelli. Yet for all the associations his name conjures—cunning strategy, swift reversals of fate, ruthless political calculation—most of us know surprisingly little about Machiavelli himself. Who was the man behind the legend?

This book explores his life as well as his career, from his years working for the Florentine government to his reinvention as a writer. His writing career produced everything from grand philosophical treatises on power to sharp, satirical plays that skewered his contemporaries. All of it demonstrated the crafty, calculating, and brilliant mind of Machiavelli at work. Shakespeare may have thought the world was a stage, but Machiavelli understood it as a chess match, where every move counted and only the strategic survived. This is Niccolo Machiavelli's life and legend in full.

Discover a plethora of topics such as

• Early Life: The Rise of a Diplomat
• From Borgia to da Vinci
• Return of the Medici
• Arrest and Torture
• Plague, Popes, and Politics
• The Last Days of Machiavelli
• And much more!

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