Book Review: Machiavelli
/An engaging new book looks at that perennial fascination for biographers, Niccolo Machiavelli
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/In 1503, the city of Florence commissioned two artists to paint the walls of their city hall - two men named Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. A new book assesses the after-effects of this greatest of all artistic competitions.
Read MoreBook Review: The Medicean Succession
/In 1537, teenager Cosimo dei Medici became the first citizen of Florence, and in the following decades, he set about fashioning a 'sacral' rulership for himself - a complicated process at the heart of this fascinating new study
Read MoreClassics Reissued: On Exile
/The signature work by one of the prickly fathers of the Italian Renaissance humanism gets its inaugural print edition in the latest offering from Harvard's magnificent I Tatti Renaissance Library
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