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FORTUNE IS A RIVER

Roger D. Masters

 
 

Sub-title: Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History - The Free Press, N. Y., 1998, 278 pgs., index, sources, notes, maps, illustrations

 
 

Reviewer's Comments: The collaboration between Machiavelli and Leonardo is well known including the episode of their attempt to subdue Pisa. But this book provides much more detail about this subject, especially about the failed effort to divert the Arno River.

 
 

Chapter 1 - A Mysterious Friendship -

 
 

Chapter 2 - Leonardo Achieves Fame -

 
 

Chapter 3 - Niccolo Achieves Power -

 
 

Chapter 5 - The Meeting -

 
 

Chapter 6 - The Collaboration Begins -

 
 

Chapter 7 - The Arno Diversion Fails

 
 

Chapter 8 - The Aftermath

 
 

Chapter 9 - Leonardo in the Courts of Power -

 
 

Chapter 10 - Niccolo's Struggle, Victory and Defeat

 
 

Chapter 11 - The Legacy

 

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