A review by outdoorsmanjph
Fortune is a River: Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History by Roger D. Masters

slow-paced

1.0

finished the next book about the failure of Da Vinci and Machiavelli to redirect the Arno river to make Florence a coastal trading power while defeatingbtheir rivals at the mouth of the river in Pisa.  It’s an interesting study of two geniuses failing together, but the author’s style and use of embedded large images made me dislike the book.  The politics of Renaissance Florence is also a dumpster fire of shifting allegiances and intrigue that makes the first two thirds or the Machiavelli sections boring and overloaded witg minor characters.