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MACHIAVELLI--A MITIGATION NOT A DEFENCE.(Machiavelli: A Man Misunderstood)(Book Review)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20050801
Author:Foster, Charles

Machiavelli: A Man Misunderstood. Michael White. Little, Brown. [pounds sterling]16.99. xvi + 304 pages. ISBN 0-316-72476-9.

Convention says that the Florentine civil servant, power-broker and writer, Niccolo Machiavelli, was a nasty piece of work. His reputation certainly needs all the help it can get. The gifted biographer, Michael White, who won his spurs with his splendid biographies of Leonardo and Galileo, has briefed himself as leading counsel for Machiavelli. It is a big brief. Mr White makes a brave go of it, but it does not quite come off. It is one thing to seek to ...

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