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Franco Bernini (born in 1954) is an Italian director and screenwriter. Born in Viterbo, Bernini entered the cinema industry in 1987 as a sound screenwriter, and was a close collaborator of Carlo Mazzacurati and Daniele Luchetti.
Jun 1, 2024 · A low-level diplomat, a spy, a conspirator and a man struggling to stay alive and solvent: he was all these. Navigating the labyrinthine world of Italian politics in the 16 th century was a tricky business and could result in imprisonment, torture and/or death if handled ineptly.
Jun 24, 2024 · Franco Bernini’s 2023 novel Il trono, narrating the tempestuous 1502 relationship between Cesare Borgia and Niccolo Machiavelli, now has an English-language translation by Oonagh Stransky, issued in a sturdy hardcover from Europa Editions as The Throne.
Jun 11, 2024 · “Bernini’s engrossing historical novel follows Machiavelli’s trajectory through the corridors of power in 16th-century Italy. . . As the relationship between the biographer and his subject evolves, each man relies on the other to achieve his political ambitions, yet only one will succeed.”—
- Franco Bernini
Set against the backdrop of the Renaissance, rife with political intrigue and cultural flourishing, Bernini's richly imagined novel masterfully captures a society teetering on the brink of change and revolution, as one man takes his chance at greatness, navigating the treacherous corridors of power with guile and charisma.
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- Franco Bernini
As Franco Mormando’s dazzling biography reveals, Bernini was a man driven by many passions, possessed of an explosive temper and a hearty sex drive, and he lived a life as dramatic as any of his creations.
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Set against the backdrop of the Renaissance, rife with political intrigue and cultural flourishing, Bernini's richly imagined novel masterfully captures a society teetering on the brink of change and revolution, as one man takes his chance at greatness, navigating the treacherous corridors of power with guile and charisma/