ALEXANDER LEE is a fellow in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. A prize-winning specialist in the history of the Italian Renaissance, he holds degrees from the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, and has held posts at Oxford, Luxembourg, and Bergamo. He is the author of numerous academic works on the Renaissance, including, most recently, Petrarch and St. Augustine: Classical Scholarship, Christian Theology and the Origins of the Renaissance of Italy, and is currently working on a new biography of Niccolò Machiavelli.
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
“Fascinating. . . . Explore[s] the dualities of creative brilliance
and human baseness.” —The Spectator
“An entertaining frolic buttressed by serious scholarship. . . . An
illuminating look at how the flowering of human imagination
celebrated in the Renaissance was fertilized by the excesses of
human nature.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Effortlessly combining scholarly depth with a highly accessible
style. . . . Lee has given us a Renaissance that is . . . uglier,
but infinitely more interesting.” —New Humanist
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