Then and now

Description:

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.

subjects: Fiction,  Machiavelli, Niccolò, in fiction,  Borgia, Cesare, in fiction,  Statesmen in fiction,  Nobility in fiction,  Italy in fiction,  History,  Nobility,  Statesmen,  Machiavelli, Niccolo, 1469-1527 in fiction,  Borgia, Cesare, 1476?-1507 in fiction,  Biographical fiction,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)

People: Cesare Borgia (b. btwn 1474/1476 d. 1507),  Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)

Places: Italy,  Papal States,  Florence

Times: 1492-1559