馬基雅維裏：他的生活與時代

Machiavelli : His Life and Times

[基本信息/Product Details]

Publisher : Picador; Main Market edition (18 Mar. 2021)

Language : English

Paperback : 784 pages

ISBN-10 : 1447275004

ISBN-13 : 978-1447275008

Reading age : 18 years and up

Dimensions : 131 x 196 x 42 (mm) 564g

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[書籍內容/Book De*ion]

尼科洛·馬基雅維利是意大利政治思想家和歷史學家。1469年誕生於意大利佛羅倫薩。其思想常被概括為馬基雅維利主義。

在中世紀後期政治思想家中，他第一個明顯地擺脱了神學和倫理學的束縛，為政治學和法學開闢了走向獨立學科的道路。他主張國家至上，將國家權力作為法的基礎。代表作《君主論》主要論述為君之道、君主應具備哪些條件和本領、應該如何奪取和鞏固政權等。他是名副其實的近代政治思想的主要奠基人之一。

但馬基雅維利真的像人們通常認為的那樣陰險嗎?難道他不是一個更加富有同情心的人物嗎?他不是會容易出現政治失誤、職業失敗造成個人悲劇嗎？

亞歷山大·李揭示了這個神話背後的人,跟着他從出生到死亡,從他父親的貧窮和受老師虐待的童年生活,到他的婚姻和他的感情經歷,再到他的政治成功，等待他的結局卻是墮落和流放。通過馬基雅維利的個人經歷，李揭示了迄今尚未觀察到的馬基雅維利的生活和思想之間的聯繫。他還揭示了馬基雅維利所經歷的世界:從文藝復興時期佛羅倫薩的大廳到波吉亞教皇亞歷山大六世的宮廷，從斯廷奇監獄的地牢到魯西萊花園，他將在那裏開始創作他畢生的偉大作品。

這本引人入勝、嚴謹的傳記，既是對一個時代的描繪，也是對一位獨特迷人的人物的描繪，比以往任何時候都更加全面地將讀者帶入了馬基雅維利的世界

'A wonderfully assured and utterly riveting biography that captures not only the much-maligned Machiavelli, but also the spirit of his time and place. A monumental achievement.' – Jessie Childs, author of God's Traitors.

‘A notorious fiend’, ‘generally odious’, ‘he seems hideous, and so he is.’

Thanks to the invidious reputation of his most famous work, The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli exerts a unique hold over the popular imagination. But was Machiavelli as sinister as he is often thought to be? Might he not have been an infinitely more sympathetic figure, prone to political missteps, professional failures and personal dramas?

Alexander Lee reveals the man behind the myth, following him from cradle to grave, from his father’s penury and the abuse he suffered at a teacher’s hands, to his marriage and his many affairs (with both men and women), to his political triumphs and, ultimately, his fall from grace and exile. In doing so, Lee uncovers hitherto unobserved connections between Machiavelli’s life and thought. He also reveals the world through which Machiavelli moved: from the great halls of Renaissance Florence to the court of the Borgia pope, Alexander VI, from the dungeons of the Stinche prison to the Rucellai gardens, where he would begin work on some of his last great works.

As much a portrait of an age as of a uniquely engaging man, Lee’s gripping and definitive biography takes the reader into Machiavelli’s world – and his work – more completely than ever before.

[作者簡介/Author]

亞歷山大·李(Alexander Lee)是華威大學(University of Warwick)的研究員。他是四本廣受好評的著作的作者，最近的一本是《人文主義》和《帝國:14世紀意大利的帝國理想》。他寫一個專欄,今天對歷史和貢獻文章在廣泛的歷史和文化主題《星期日電訊報》、《華爾街日報》,《衞報》新政治家,泰晤士報文學副刊,和異議,並經常出現在BBC電視和電台,英國獨立電視台,中央電視台和天空新聞。他住在法國。

Alexander Lee is a research fellow at the University of Warwick. He is the author of four acclaimed books, most recently Humanism and Empire: The Imperial Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy. He writes a regular column for History Today,and has contributed articles on a wide variety of historical and cultural subjects to the Sunday Telegraph, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the New Statesman, the Times Literary Supplement, and Dissent, and has frequently appeared on BBC television and radio, ITV, Central Television and Sky News. He lives in France.