Born in 1973, Raphaël Cardetti spent all his childhood in Italy and has the French–Italian nationality.
A teacher in a French university, he is a specialist of the political philosophy of the Florentine Renaissance.
Set in Florence, at the end of the 15th century. To assuage his thirst for vengeance, the young Niccolo Machiavel is weaving a sombre political plot in the hope of destabilising the powers in office.
Since the fall of the Medicis, tempers are quick to rise in the superb Florentine...
Set in Florence, at the end of the 15th century. To assuage his thirst for vengeance, the young Niccolo Machiavel is weaving a sombre political plot in the hope of destabilising the powers in office.
Since the fall of the Medicis, tempers are quick to rise in the superb Florentine metropolis. When horribly mutilated corpses are discovered, the governors immediately accuse Savonarole, the charismatic bishop, of leading the town to ruin. But Niccolo Machiavel, a brilliant student, puts his perfect knowledge of the human soul – and of political conniving – into practise, when he takes charge of the investigation. But isn't he really trying to serve his own interests? For, as he was to write in his most famous work, “It is essential to be able to hide one's nature, to be a great simulator and dissimulator.”
A dark and violent historical novel, Les Larmes de Machiavel, is about a character we all know well. The plot, full of unanticipated events, reveals the disturbing and perverse aspects of a personality that still has mystery and contradictions to reveal.
Born in 1973, Raphaël Cardetti spent all his childhood in Italy and has the French–Italian nationality.
A teacher in a French university, he is a specialist of the political philosophy of the Florentine Renaissance.