Then and now
Subtitle: a novel
By: [by] W. Somerset Maugham.
Publisher: Doubleday & company, inc.
Published: 1946
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 -- Fiction.; Borgia, Cesare, 1476?-1507 -- Fiction.; Nobility -- Papal States -- Fiction.; Statesmen -- Italy -- Fiction.; Italy -- History -- 1492-1559 -- Fiction.
Description: A novel which finds a parallel to the turmoil of the 20th century in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance. Maugham enters the world of Machiavelli and covers three important months in the career of that crafty politician, worldly seducer and high priest of schemers.
Notes: "First edition."