Christopher S. Celenza is Dean of Georgetown College and Professor of History and Classics, Georgetown University.
Machiavellian. The very word calls up images of plots, daggers and
devious minds. Christopher Celenza separates the man from the
melodrama.
*Sydney Morning Herald*
Both readable and trustworthy.
*Open Letters Monthly*
Demonstrates how Machiavelli’s thoughts on conflict and leadership
are relevant to today’s political world.
*Choice*
A brief, erudite exposition of the Florentine secretary’s mores and
intentions. In this accessible work, Celenza explores why
Machiavelli’s The Prince continues to enthrall readers and how the
author’s other, less-well-known works, such as his comedies, can
help enrich the way we understand him…A compelling portrait of the
life of a man ‘subject to and involved in history, who
believed…that by interpreting the past sagely, one could act more
fruitfully in the present.’
*Kirkus Reviews*
By setting the author of The Prince in his historical context,
Christopher Celenza captures the brilliance, risk-taking, danger,
and sheer exuberant delight of the Italian Renaissance. With
particular sensitivity to the precise nuances of Machiavelli’s
language, Celenza enables us to seize upon what continues to be
relevant in his work to our own time and place.
*Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became
Modern*
Celenza’s Machiavelli is a man passionately engaged in history, a
scholar of the past whose interests run from the remote annals of
ancient Rome to the tormented chronicles of early modern Italy, and
an unflaggingly committed participant in the events of his own
time. The result is a singularly humane portrait of a wise man
making his way through what was often a cruel, chaotic world.
*Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame*
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