In Cesare Borgia, Machiavelli initially saw a conjunction of virtù (ability or skill) and fortuna (good fortune). This exile from politics, so painful to him, also stimulated his creativity: all his major writings come from this time.Īlong with Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier, The Prince was de rigueur reading for every educated European during the 16th century. After being tortured, he retired to his estate and wrote his most famous work in 1513. With the return of the Medici, Machiavelli was forced out of office. He went on diplomatic missions, and therefore encountered Cesare Borgia, the son of Pope Alexander VI, who provided the original model for The Prince. Often considered the father of modern political science, Machiavelli had extensive experience in government service as an elected official of Florence’s Second Chancery, a role he filled from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici family was out of power. Or rather he saw the necessary next phase of history to be a return to the classical past: the renaissance, or rebirth, of Italy by a kind of revolution back to a pre-papal Rome. A Florentine like Dante, Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) stands on the frontier between the Renaissance and modernity.
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Low Town is an attention-grabbing debut that will leave readers riveted. His latest book is A City Dreaming, and it's his favorite one so far. Daniel Polansky has crafted a thrilling novel steeped in noir sensibilities and relentless action, and set in an original world of stunning imagination, leading to a gut-wrenching, unforeseeable conclusion. Daniel Polansky, winner of the Prix Imaginales, is the author of the critically-acclaimed Low Town trilogy and The Builders, which was a 2016 Hugo Award finalist. To protect his home, he will take part in a dangerous game of deception between underworld bosses and the psychotic head of Black House, but the truth is far darker than he imagines. As a former agent with Black House?the secret police?he knows better than anyone that murder in Low Town is an everyday thing, the kind of crime that doesn?t get investigated. setting him on a collision course with the life he left behind. The Warden?s life of drugged iniquity is shaken by his discovery of a murdered child down a dead-end street. Every day is a constant hustle to find new customers and protect his turf from low-life competition like Tancred the Harelip and Ling Chi, the enigmatic crime lord of the heathens. After a fall from grace five years ago, a man known as the Warden leads a life of crime, addicted to cheap violence and expensive drugs. It is an ugly place, and its champion is an ugly man. In the forgotten back alleys and flophouses that lie in the shadows of Rigus, the finest city of the Thirteen Lands, you will find Low Town. Drug dealers, hustlers, brothels, dirty politics, corrupt cops. I think it would be very hard to argue that Marlowe didn’t intend for these historical figures to be seen as intimate lovers. Imagine my surprise when something from the late 1500s is brave enough to go there quite openly. Prior to recent memory, most literature referencing gay love tends to be thickly veiled behind a wall of friendship, lest anyone consider it obscene. King Edward and Gaveston pine over each other as passionately as Romeo and Juliet, with lingering embraces, confessions of eternal devotion, and a willingness to die for true love. My instant obsession with this play is likely a result of Marlowe’s uninhibited lines expressing same-sex romance. Edward II is just as good as Shakespeare’s finer histories, and clearly better than some of his worst. Christopher Marlow was, of course, one of Shakespeare’s rivals, and a worthy one at that. Marvelous! It’s been years since I binged on the complete works of Shakespeare, and I’d forgotten just how wonderful renaissance theater could be. To the surprise of no one, Ronaldo dispatched it with ease. Referee Martin Atkinson didn't blow up for it, but a quick VAR review showed that it was a clear spot kick. 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Over many years Coyne produced the distinctive art work for many of his own album covers but his move to Germany, in the 1980s, saw his work on full-size paintings blossom in its own right. Prominent BBC disc jockey and world music authority Andy Kershaw described Coyne as "a national treasure who keeps getting better" and as one of the great British blues voices. In the mid-1970s, prior to the formation of the Police, Coyne's band included guitarist Andy Summers. Many influential musicians have described themselves as Coyne fans, among them Sting and John Lydon. The "anti-star" was born in Derby, Derbyshire, England, and died in his adopted home of Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany.Ĭoyne is notable for his unorthodox style of blues-influenced guitar composition, the intense quality of his vocal delivery, and his bold treatment, in his lyrics, of injustice to the mentally ill. Kevin Coyne (27 January 1944 – 2 December 2004) was an English musician, singer, composer, film-maker, and a writer of lyrics, stories and poems. The Intuitive Eating Workbook offers a new way of looking at food and mealtime by showing you how to recognize your body's natural hunger signals. Based on the authors' best-selling book, Intuitive Eating, this workbook can show you how. You can enjoy food again-you just need to pay attention to your body's natural hunger cues. If you are ready to throw in your hat and give up on dieting for good, take heart. Have you tried fad diet after fad diet, only to gain weight back? Maybe you've tried the protein diet only to move on to vegetables only? Raw almonds and coconut water every forty-five minutes instead of big meals? Or perhaps you've tried counting calories, but the numbers on the scale still don't add up. Do you use food to comfort yourself during stressful times? The Intuitive Eating Workbook offers a comprehensive, evidence-based program to help you develop a healthy relationship with food, pay attention to cues of hunger and satisfaction, and cultivate a profound connection with your mind and body. Unfortunately, that person is Compass Rose herself"-Back cover Member ofĬataloging source YDX 1990- Burke, Anna Dewey number 813/. As dark secrets bubble to the surface and everything she's fought so hard to accomplish begins to crumble, Rose learns the hard way that she'll have to rely on the only person who can save her from certain disaster. In the year 2514, the only thing more dangerous than the seas is those wh. But when intrigue and subterfuge from enemies old and new begin to swirl around the ship's captain, the infamous Miranda Stillwater, even an uncanny sense of direction won't be enough to help Rose navigate these dangerous straits. Read 101 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Over the course of the last year, she has come to learn that life aboard the mercenary ship Man o' War is rarely dull as hurricanes, swarms of jellyfish, and man-eating squid pose daily doses of danger. Compass Ross was born facing due north, with an inherent perception of cardinal points flowing through her veins. Language eng Summary "In the year 2514, the only thing more dangerous than the seas is those who sail them. Label Sea wolf Title Sea wolf Statement of responsibility Anna Burke Creator She spent her childhood playing with native Maruni children and apprenticing with her father as a trainer and breeder of racehorses. Born in England in 1902, Markham was taken by her father to East Africa in 1906. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. One of the most beautifully crafted books I have ever read, with some of the most poetic prose passages I could imagine, such as the following, resonating with a stately and timeless quality so absent in our modern life: There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. With no ready solutions to offer, the prince consults Blackthorn and Grim. Casting a blight over the entire district, and impossible to drive out by ordinary means, it threatens both the safety and the sanity of all who live nearby. Lady Geileis, a noblewoman from the northern border, has asked for the prince of Dalriada's help in expelling a howling creature from an old tower on her land-one surrounded by an impenetrable hedge of thorns. But trouble has a way of seeking out Blackthorn and Grim. Disillusioned healer Blackthorn and her companion, Grim, have settled in Dalriada to wait out the seven years of Blackthorn's bond to her fey mentor, hoping to avoid any dire challenges. Award-winning author Juliet Marillier's lavishly detailed * Blackthorn & Grim series continues as a mysterious creature holds an enchanted and imperiled ancient Ireland in thrall. |