Full review here (As long as it lasts)

History done with creative license:

“Strathern, a novelist and author of other popular histories, does for Machiavelli and da Vinci what he does for Borgia: creates a flesh-and-blood portrait for each that defies historical stereotype.”

Related On This Site:   Garrett Mattingly On Machiavelli-The Prince: Political Science Or Political Satire? From Nigel Warburton’s Virtual Philosopher: Machiavelli Is Always Relevant…Friday Quotations: Machiavelli And The Founders

See Also:  Another inteersting Italian and a poem about Giordano Bruno by American poet Heather McHugh: What He Thought by Heather McHugh

Giordano Bruno In The New Yorker: The Forbidden World By Joan Acocella