Brenda Maddox
The Columbus of Politics
Machiavelli: A Man Misunderstood
By Michael White
Little, Brown 304pp £16.99 order from our bookshop
Stephen Joyce, James Joyce’s grandson, describes himself as ‘a Joyce but not a Joycean’. A similar claim could have been made by Niccolò Machiavelli. This highly readable new short biography shows that the Florentine political theorist was not machiavellian, for he was neither scheming nor brutal.
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