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Author: Franco Bernini ,
Oonagh Stransky
Publisher: Europa Editions
Imprint: Europa Editions
Dimensions:
Width: 13.20cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 20.60cm
Weight: 0.386kg
ISBN: 9798889661061
Publication Date: 15 July 2025
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
★ ""Prose meets power in a tale of Machiavelli and Borgia... An engrossing and humane novel.""--Kirkus Reviews (Starred) ""Captivating... Smartly voiced, briskly paced... 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.""--Boyd Tonkin, Wall Street Journal ""Engrossing... Set in an era whose notions of statecraft can seem even more rapacious than our own.""--Alida Becker, New York Times Book Review ""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 ""Bernini's engrossing historical novel follows Machiavelli's trajectory through the corridors of power in 16th-century Italy... As the relationship between the biographer and his subject evolves, each man relies on the other to achieve his political ambitions, yet only one will succeed.""--Becky Meloan, Washington Post ""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 ""If you loved Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, dive into The Throne, an Italian historical novel with the same verve of a thriller while bringing the past to life.""--Parade Magazine ""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 Information
Franco 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.
