Machiavelli: The Art of Terror

When he wasn’t inventing commedia dell-arte, Niccolo Machiavelli wrote the famous textbook on terrorism that Hitler and Mussolini kept by their bedsides. Robert Cohen’s Machiavelli – The Art of Terror delves into the notorious Italian statesman/playwright’s passionate and often deadly entanglements with history’s most outrageous Popes, tyrants, and artists.