![]() ![]() ![]() In exploring his encounters, relationships and, in particular, his conversations, Benner shows how he developed some of the most influential political ideas of all time. Machiavelli was a man with a great love of life: entertaining, tolerant, charismatic - and above all, wise and deeply humane. This intimate, groundbreaking new book takes us on a journey into Machiavelli’s world and into his mind. But in Be Like The Fox, Erica Benner reveals instead an ardent republican whose life was a passionate struggle to restore the democratic freedoms of his beloved Florence, a city wrecked by greed, power and decades of conflict. Since the publication of The Prince five centuries ago, Niccolo Machiavelli has become a byword for political amorality. A myth-shattering portrait of one of history’s most celebrated, most notorious political thinkers: Niccolo Machiavelli. ![]()
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