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From a leading expert on the life and works of Niccol Machiavelli, a superb overview of the pivotal Renaissance philosopher, writer, and historian. Machiavellian can signify duplicity and amorality in politics, but Machiavelli himself was far more complex than this clich. A high-ranking Florentine government official and prolific writer of hugely influential political, military, and historical works, Machiavelli was also a vernacular poet, first-rank dramatist, and religious radical, rejecting not only the contemporary Catholic Church but Christianity itself. From champion of Florentine popular republicanism to political radical to conservative, Read more