Tag: Italian


  • “It’s much safer to be feared than loved” (p.66). – Niccolo Machiavelli  Synopsis and Recommendation Written by Niccolo Machiavelli and published in 1432, The Prince is a political treatise that is considered one of the most famous, if not the most famous, book on politics ever written. Even if one has not heard of the…

  • A Room with a View

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    “Does it not strike you as odd that she should play so wonderfully, play Beethoven with such passion, and live so quietly?” Synopsis and Recommendation A room with a view, a novel written by E.M Forester and adapted into a film directed by James Ivory, follows the romance of Lucy Honeychurch and George Emerson as…