(Paperback)

Fifteen brilliantly potted biographies of the Renaissance era's most creative and vivid figures, fascinating individuals who embody the hopes, discoveries, and struggles of an age that gave birth to the modern world. Their stories make us see anew the profound transformations of an entire era that took for its name a word meaning "rebirth."

(Paperback)

A leading Renaissance scholar examines what brought one of history's most fascinating eras to its end and how it gave rise to the modern era