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Fortune is a River: Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History.(Review)

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From: History: Review of New Books
Date: 19991222
Author:RUMMEL, ERIKA

Masters, Roger D. Fortune is a River: Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History New York: Free Press 278pp., $24.00, ISBN 0-684-84452-4 Publication Date: June 1998

Roger D. Masters brings together the biographies of Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli, focusing on the point where their lives intersected: the Arno project. The purpose of this scheme, conceived by da Vinci, was to force Pisa into submission by rerouting the River Arno and cutting off the city's water supply. A second, even grander phase ...

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