Description
A comprehensive, authoritative and highly original portrait of one of history's most unjustly infamous characters.
About the Author
Alexander Lee is a research fellow at the University of Warwick. He is the author of four acclaimed books, including The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty (a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year) and Humanism and Empire: The Imperial Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy. He writes a regular column for History Today, and has contributed articles on a wide variety of historical and cultural subjects to the Sunday Telegraph, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the New Statesman, the Times Literary Supplement, and Dissent, and has frequently appeared on BBC television and radio, ITV, Central Television and Sky News. He lives in France.