DescriptionThere is no book of mine about which I more thoroughly feel that I swear by every sentence as having been written with my best blood. Thus wrote George Eliot about Romola, the book that is central in her career as a novelist and among her most colorful, fluent, and persuasive works. Set in Florence in 1492, a time of great political and religious turmoil, Eliot's novel blends vivid fictional characters with historical figures such as Savonarola, Machiavelli, and the Medicis. When Romola, the virtuous daughter of a blind scholar, marries Tito Melema, a charismatic young Greek, she is bound to a man whose escalating betrayals threaten to destroy all that she holds dear. Profoundly inspired by Savonarola's teachings, then crushed by the religious leader's ultimate failure, Romola finds her salvation in noble self-sacrifice.
DescriptionEl gran novelista ingles Somerset Maugham uso como base para su picaresca novela Entonces y ahora, una popular obra de teatro de Maquiavelo, el mismo filosofo de "El principe", llamada "La mandragora" y quien creo dentro de las tradiciones de la Comedia del Arte una ironica farsa, en la que los viejos acaban derrotados por el amor joven. The great English novelist used as the basis for his picaresque novel Then and Now a popular play of Machiavelli's called The Mandrake . He created within the traditions of the art of the modern novel an ironic farce, where the old ones end up being defeated by young love.
DescriptionMario Puzo first answered the question 'What is a family?' with the creation of the Corleones in his landmark best seller The Godfather . Now, 30 years later, Puzo enriches us all with his ultimate vision of the subject: the story of the greatest cr…
DescriptionIn the first post-9/11 account of the career of the man who established himself as "America's Mayor" in the dark days after America was attacked, Fred Siegel shows how Rudy Giuliani's successes in New York set a promising example for the rejuvenation of our major cities. Someone who has worked with Giuliani as well as studied him, Siegel regards Giuliani as a shrewd tactician and artist of the possible who could have stepped out of the pages of Machiavelli's The Prince . A self-promoting, self-absorbed man, the mayor made his enormous ego and tribal ethos serve the city's well-being, promoting ideals that transcended New York's ethnic politics and business as usual. The Prince of the City is at once a fascinating character study, a history of New York over the last 40 years, and a classic inquiry into the issue of how cities thrive or die.
DescriptionIn Europe for a crucial NATO summit in Warsaw, US President John Henry Harris is ordered by a secret cabal within his own administration to have the president of France and the chancellor of Germany assassinated. Refusal, he knows, will mean his death. Af…
