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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Franco Bernini , Oonagh StranskyPublisher: Europa Editions Imprint: Europa Editions Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9798889660149Pages: 384 Publication Date: 11 June 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviews"★ ""Prose meets power in a tale of Machiavelli and Borgia...An engrossing and humane novel.""--Kirkus Reviews (Starred) ""Well researched with wonderfully vivid details...The ultimate power, then, resides in words and those who know how to use them. Borgia and his armies fade away, but Machiavelli's books still belong on our shelves.""--New York Journal of Books ""Machiavelli, as you've never read before.""--ELLE Magazine (Italy) ""A story about manipulation and palace intrigue...It's also about the complicated relationship between a biographer and their subject, something kinda meta that historical fiction rarely delves into.""--Cosmopolitan ""The Throne plunges the reader into the folds of history, among love affairs and court intrigues, outlining the portrait of one of the most illustrious figures of the Renaissance.""--La bottega di Hamlin" """Machiavelli, as you've never read before.""--ELLE Magazine (Italy) ""The Throne plunges the reader into the folds of history, among love affairs and court intrigues, outlining the portrait of one of the most illustrious figures of the Renaissance.""--La bottega di Hamlin" "★ ""Prose meets power in a tale of Machiavelli and Borgia...An engrossing and humane novel.""--Kirkus Reviews (Starred) ""Well researched with wonderfully vivid details...The ultimate power, then, resides in words and those who know how to use them. Borgia and his armies fade away, but Machiavelli's books still belong on our shelves.""--New York Journal of Books ""Machiavelli, as you've never read before.""--ELLE Magazine (Italy) ""The Throne plunges the reader into the folds of history, among love affairs and court intrigues, outlining the portrait of one of the most illustrious figures of the Renaissance.""--La bottega di Hamlin" Author InformationFranco Bernini's screenplay for The Grey Zone won the Grolla d'oro Prize for best screenplay. He teaches screenwriting at the Italian National Film School. He has written three novels and a collection of short stories. The Throne is his English-language debut. Oonagh Stransky has been a translator of Italian literature for over 20 years. Some of the writers whose work she has brought into English include Domenico Starnone (The House on Via Gemito, Europa), Pier Paolo Pasolini, Carlo Lucarelli, Giuseppe Pontiggia, and Roberto Saviano. Stransky started studying Italian at Middlebury Language Schools in 1986, got her BA in Comparative Literature from Mills College and UC Berkeley in 1989, and her MA in Italian from Columbia University in 2002. She currently lives in Italy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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