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Volker Reinhardt
Author · 38 books
Volker Reinhardt was a professor of modern general and Swiss history at the University of Fribourg. He published numerous books on Italian and French history, including The Power of Beauty: A Cultural History of Italy, as well as biographies of Voltaire, Montaigne, Giordano Bruno, Leonardo da Vinci, and Machiavelli. His biography of Machiavelli received the Golo Mann Prize for Historical Writing. In 2020, he was awarded the Kythera Cultural Foundation Prize for his lifetime achievement.