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Title: An Unlikely Prince
Subtitle: The Life and Times of Machiavelli
Author: Niccolo Capponi
Narrator: Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-27-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Political Figures
Publisher's Summary:
In this compelling new biography, historian Niccol Capponi frees Machiavelli (1469-1527) from centuries of misinterpretation. Exploring the Renaissance city of Florence, where Machiavelli lived, Capponi reveals the man behind the legend. A complex portrait of Machiavelli emerges - at once a brilliantly skillful diplomat and a woefully inept liar; a sharp thinker and an impractical dreamer; a hard-nosed powerbroker and a risk-taking gambler; a calculating propagandist and an imprudent jokester.
Capponis intimate portrait of Machiavelli reveals his behavior as utterly un-Machiavellian, his vision of the world as limited by his very provincial outlook. In the end, Machiavelli was frustrated by his own political failures and utterly baffled by the success of his book The Prince.