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HISTORY The Artist, the Philosopher and the Warrior: Leonardo, Machiavelli and Borgia - a Fateful Collision by Paul Strathern JONATHAN CAPE, pounds 25, 456 pp Saul David hails an account of the coming together of three Renaissance giants
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On this dayBorn: Jules Verne (1828), John Grisham (1955)
died: Baldesar Castiglione (1529), Iris Murdoch (1999)
For a few short months in the winter of 1502/3, three giants of
the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci
and Niccolo Machiavelli - travelled together through the
mountains, remote villages and hill towns of
the Romagna in one of the most treacherous campaigns in military
history. 'It was', writes Paul Strathern, 'a unique constellation:
each, in his own way, emblematic of a distinct aspect of humanity.'
The very name of Borgia summons up 'images of betrayal, murder ...
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