The Throne: The Machiavelli Trilogy, Book 1
Engrossing ... Machiavelli gradually becomes our guide to an Italy that is "after all only a name.
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Mr. Bernini’s seamless weave of sources and storytelling sometimes resembles recent biographical works ... Smartly voiced, briskly paced, Oonagh Stransky’s translation from Mr. Bernini’s Italian boasts plenty of idiomatic color and avoids Renaissance costume-drama folderol ... The Throne paints a Machiavelli credibly embedded in his vibrant, vicious times—but capable as well of the flinty thoughts and words that would outlive them.
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Bernini does a good job of describing the political and social chaos, the shifting sands of power from one city-state to another ... Well researched with wonderfully vivid details, Bernini presents Machiavelli in all the complications of a life spent navigating political waters, learning to say the right thing or nothing at all, and more importantly, learning how to write about it all.
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