ACCENT ON POWER

by Valeriu Marcu ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 11, 1939

A biography of Nicolo Machiavelli against the background of his times: the importance of the Florentine Republic and the de Medici family, the pressure of Church and foreign countries, Cesare Borgia and the breakdown of medieval concepts. His career, missions to France, his beliefs and theories, his many interests, religious, military, etc., and his clear-eyed view of the elements of statecraft, recognizing the spirit of violence as natural, his exile, and death. Thorough job and detailed study of the period, but serious-going and lacking the color of Roeder's The Man of The Renaissance.

Pub Date: Sept. 11, 1939

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1939

Categories: NONFICTION