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'A ripping read ... fascinating, charming, enjoyably unorthodox' Daily Telegraph Was Niccolo Machiavelli really the cynical schemer of legend - or was he a profound ethical thinker, who tried to save the democratic freedom of Renaissance F

BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A rich, vivid and endlessly surprising portrayal of the man and his times' Tracey Borman, BBC History Magazine 'Splendidly colourful ...does a wonderful job of bringing to life Florentine society