“Machiavelli's three-month mission to the court of Cesare Borgia (who is often referred to in this novel by his sobriquet “Valentino”) provides the background for the imagined scenario of The Throne... Mr. Bernini’s seamless weave of sources and storytelling sometimes resembles recent biographical works...Smartly voiced, briskly paced in Oonagh Stranksy’s translation... The Throne paints a Machiavelli credibly embedded in his vibrant, vicious times—but capable as well of the flinty thoughts and words that would outlive them.”
Read the full review in the Wall Street Journal.
