![]() ![]() ![]() As I dove into my research, I soon took particular interest in the closing months of the year 1502, when Machiavelli was a junior Florentine diplomat at the court of Cesare Borgia, the celebrated "Duke Valentino," who at the time was playing this deadly political chess game against a cabal of mercenary warlords known as the condottieri-a bloody political drama that Machiavelli would later place at the very center of The Prince.Īlthough Valentino's court was located in the remote fortress city of Imola during those final months of 1502, it attracted all sorts of interesting and nefarious characters, among them the Duke's innovative military engineer, Leonardo da Vinci. ![]() I began The Malice of Fortune with the rather modest ambition of writing a novel that featured Machiavelli as a detective perhaps he could use the precepts of The Prince to solve a crime. An Exclusive Essay by Author Michael Ennis ![]()
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