Part of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series,
Machiavelli
is a superb portrait of the brilliant and revolutionary political philosopher—history’s most famous theorist of “warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed”—and the age he embodied. Ross King, the
New York Times
bestselling author of
Brunelleschi’s Dome
, argues that the author of
The Prince
was a far more complex and sympathetic character than is often portrayed.