Then and Now
FictionMachiavelli, Niccolò, in fictionBorgia, Cesare, in fictionStatesmen in fictionNobility in fiction
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Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance. *Then and Now* enters the world of Machiavelli, and covers three important months in the career of that crafty politician, worldly seducer and high priest of schemers.
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FictionMachiavelli, Niccolò, in fictionBorgia, Cesare, in fictionStatesmen in fictionNobility in fictionItaly in fiction
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ItalyPapal StatesFlorence1492-1559
About the author
William Somerset Maugham
25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965
William Somerset Maugham was born at the British Embassy in Paris, France, where his father was an English lawyer handling the legal affairs of the British embassy. His mother died of tuberculosis while he was young, a death which traumatized him for life. Two years later, his father died of cancer, and he was sent to England to be cared for by his uncle, Henry MacDonald Maugham, the Vicar of Whitstable, in Kent. His uncle was cold and cruel, and the boarding school he attended, The King's School in Canterbury, was also miserable for him. At sixteen, he refused to continue at The King's School and he was allowed to travel to Germany, where he studied literature, philosophy and German at …
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