At the height of his fame and fortune, Niccolò Paganini, arguably the greatest violinist ever to live,
was both the toast, and the bane, of Europe.
Entangled in Florentine politics during a tumultuous time at the height of the Renaissance, Niccolò Machiavelli became alternately a diplomat,
a victim, a prisoner, an exile and, ultimately, the“father of modern political theory.”.