Title: Then and Now
Subtitle: a novel
Description: Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance. *Then and Now* enters the world of Machiavelli, and covers three important months in the career of that crafty politician, worldly seducer and high priest of schemers.
Subjects: Fiction, Machiavelli, Niccolò, in fiction, Borgia, Cesare, in fiction, Statesmen in fiction, Nobility in fiction, Italy in fiction, History, Nobility, Statesmen, Machiavelli, Niccolo, 1469-1527 in fiction, Borgia, Cesare, 1476?-1507 in fiction, Biographical fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Places: Italy, Papal States, Florence
People: Cesare Borgia (b. btwn 1474/1476 d. 1507), Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Time periods: 1492-1559