In this masterful study, Paul Strathern (author of The Medici, & Napoleon in Egypt) details the incidental convergence of three of Renaissance Italy's most brilliant minds. The Artist, the Philosopher & the Warrior follows Leonardo Da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli & Cesare Borgia through the mountains, remote villages & hill towns of the Italian Romagna. This was a period of extreme significance & considerable danger, not just for themselves, but for the country they were helping to shape.
Borgia has become a byword for brutal & inhuman deeds, marred with the suspicion of incest. Depicted as a savage whose eyes were fixed on the prize of his own kingdom