Machiavelli : his life and times /: his life and times. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alexander Lee.
• Authors: (Historian), Lee, Alexander
• Contents: Part I - The Pygmy (1469-98). Inauspicious beginnings (1469-76) ; The golden age (1476-85) ; From a pygmy to a giant (1485-98) -- Part II - The Apprentice (1498-1500). The new republic (June 1498-February 1499) ; The first tests (March-July 1499) ; The fog of war (August 1499-July 1500) ; La chasse (July-December 1500) -- Part III - The Man (1501-3). The gathering storm (January-October 1501) ; The whirlwind (October 1501-July 1502) ; The eye of the storm (August 1502-January 1503) ; The wind changes (January-December 1503) -- Part IV - The Hand of Fate (1504-8). The militant (January 1504-February 1506) ; Fortune favours the brave (February-December 1506) ; The emperor (January 1507-June 1508) ; Part V - The Prisoner of Fortune (1508-13). Old scores, new enemies (June 1508-June 1509) ; Walking the tightrope (July 1509-September 1510) ; Things fall apart (September 1510-September 1512) ; 'Ministers of violence' (September 1512-March 1513) -- Part VI - The Outsider (1513-19). Slumming with the lice (March-December 1513) ; Princely aspirations (December 1513-August 1514) ; The garden of delights (August 1514-March 1519) ; The radical conservative -- Part VII - The Prodigal Son. Deaths and resurrection (March 1519-April 1520) ; A second apprenticeship (April-December 1520) ; The republic of clogs (January-December 1521) ; Love, labour, loss (December 1521-March 1525) ; 'This ruined world' -- Old man in a hurry (March 1525-September 1526) ; A bang and a whimper (September 1526-June 1527) ; The art of dying (June 1527).
• Publisher Details: London : Picador
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxii, 762 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates), illustrations (chiefly color), color map
• Subjects: 320.1092; Political scientists -- Italy -- Biography; Political scientists; Italy; Biographies; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781447275015; 1447275012
• Related ISBNs: 9781447274995; 1447274997
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 573-604) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.