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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.
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.
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/
