The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior, (Paperback)

from janoorani24

The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior by Paul Strathern is a history of the period in the early 1500s when the lives of Leonardo Da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli and Cesare Borgia intersected. Leonardo worked as Borgia's chief military engineer during the same period that Machiavelli was Flor...

from chumofchance

Borgia, Machiavelli, DaVinci. Who could ask for a more interesting trio of Medieval personalities than these guys? And who knew, at least among those of us who have a non-academic interest in all things middle ages, of the relationship which existed between them? Paul Strathern succeeds in his de...

from janoorani24

The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior by Paul Strathern is a history of the period in the early 1500s when the lives of Leonardo Da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli and Cesare Borgia intersected. Leonardo worked as Borgia's chief military engineer during the same period that Machiavelli was Flor...

from cameling

Leonardo da Vinci is world reknown as an inventor and artist. Niccolo Machiavelli, a strategist and philosopher. Cesare Borgia, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI, built a reputation for himself as a brilliant military strategist and commander. One would think these 3 individuals had nothing i...

from chumofchance

Borgia, Machiavelli, DaVinci. Who could ask for a more interesting trio of Medieval personalities than these guys? And who knew, at least among those of us who have a non-academic interest in all things middle ages, of the relationship which existed between them? Paul Strathern succeeds in his de...