书名：Machiavelli : His Life and Times 马基雅维里：他的生活与时代

读者对象：18岁以上
作者：Dr Alexander Lee
出版社名称：Picador
出版时间：2021
语种：英语
ISBN：9781447275008
商品尺寸：13 x 19.7 cm
包装：平装
页数：784（以实物为准）

尼科洛·马基雅维利是意大利政治思想家和历史学家。1469年诞生于意大利佛罗伦萨。其思想常被概括为马基雅维利主义。

在中世纪后期政治思想家中，他di一个明显地摆脱了神学和伦理学的束缚，为政治学和法学开辟了走向独立学科的道路。他主张国家至上，将国家权力作为法的基础。代表作《君主论》主要论述为君之道、君主应具备哪些条件和本领、应该如何夺取和巩固政权等。他是名副其实的近代政治思想的主要奠基人之一。

但马基雅维利真的像人们通常认为的那样阴险吗?难道他不是一个更加富有同情心的人物吗?他不是会容易出现政治失误、职业失败造成个人悲剧吗？

亚历山大·李揭示了这个神话背后的人,跟着他从出生到死亡,从他父亲的贫穷和受老师虐待的童年生活,到他的婚姻和他的感情经历,再到他的政治成功，等待他的结局却是堕落和流放。通过马基雅维利的个人经历，李揭示了迄今尚未观察到的马基雅维利的生活和思想之间的联系。他还揭示了马基雅维利所经历的世界:从文艺复兴时期佛罗伦萨的大厅到波吉亚教皇亚历山大六世的宫廷，从斯廷奇监狱的地牢到鲁西莱花园，他将在那里开始创作他毕生的伟大作品。

这本引人入胜、严谨的传记，既是对一个时代的描绘，也是对一位独特迷人的人物的描绘，比以往任何时候都更加全面地将读者带入了马基雅维利的世界

'A wonderfully assured and utterly riveting biography that captures not only the much-maligned Machiavelli, but also the spirit of his time and place. A monumental achievement.' – Jessie Childs, author of God's Traitors.

‘A notorious fiend’, ‘generally odious’, ‘he seems hideous, and so he is.’

Thanks to the invidious reputation of his most famous work, The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli exerts a unique hold over the popular imagination. But was Machiavelli as sinister as he is often thought to be? Might he not have been an infinitely more sympathetic figure, prone to political missteps, professional failures and personal dramas?

Alexander Lee reveals the man behind the myth, following him from cradle to grave, from his father’s penury and the abuse he suffered at a teacher’s hands, to his marriage and his many affairs (with both men and women), to his political triumphs and, ultimately, his fall from grace and exile. In doing so, Lee uncovers hitherto unobserved connections between Machiavelli’s life and thought. He also reveals the world through which Machiavelli moved: from the great halls of Renaissance Florence to the court of the Borgia pope, Alexander VI, from the dungeons of the Stinche prison to the Rucellai gardens, where he would begin work on some of his last great works.

As much a portrait of an age as of a uniquely engaging man, Lee’s gripping and definitive biography takes the reader into Machiavelli’s world – and his work – more completely than ever before.

亚历山大·李(Alexander Lee)是华威大学(University of Warwick)的研究员。他是四本广受好评的著作的作者，zui近的一本是《人文主义》和《帝国:14世纪意大利的帝国理想》。他写一个专栏,今天对历史和贡献文章在广泛的历史和文化主题《星期日电讯报》、《华尔街日报》,《卫报》新政治家,泰晤士报文学副刊,和异议,并经常出现在BBC电视和电台,英国独立电视台,中央电视台和天空新闻。他住在法国。

Alexander Lee is a research fellow at the University of Warwick. He is the author of four acclaimed books, most recently Humanism and Empire: The Imperial Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy. He writes a regular column for History Today,and has contributed articles on a wide variety of historical and cultural subjects to the Sunday Telegraph, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the New Statesman, the Times Literary Supplement, and Dissent, and has frequently appeared on BBC television and radio, ITV, Central Television and Sky News. He lives in France.