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The Beauty and the Terror

- An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
Af: Catherine Fletcher Engelsk Paperback

The Beauty and the Terror

- An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
Af: Catherine Fletcher Engelsk Paperback
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The Italian Renaissance shaped Western culture - but it was far stranger and darker than many of us realise.

''Brilliant and gripping, here is the full true Renaissance in a history of compelling originality and freshness'' Simon Sebag Montefiore

We know the Mona Lisa for her smile, but not that she was married to a slave-trader. We revere Leonardo da Vinci for his art, but few now appreciate his ingenious designs for weaponry. We visit Florence to see Michelangelo''s David, but hear nothing of the massacre that forced the republic''s surrender. In fact, many of the Renaissance''s most celebrated artists and thinkers emerged not during the celebrated ''rebirth'' of the fifteenth century but amidst the death and destruction of the sixteenth century.

The Beauty and the Terror is an enrapturing narrative which includes the forgotten women writers, Jewish merchants, mercenaries, prostitutes, farmers and citizens who lived the Renaissance every day. Brimming with life, it takes us closer than ever before to the reality of this astonishing era, and its meaning for today.

''Terrifying and fascinating'' Sunday Times

''Enlightening...exactly the alternative history you might wish for'' Daily Telegraph

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The Italian Renaissance shaped Western culture - but it was far stranger and darker than many of us realise.

''Brilliant and gripping, here is the full true Renaissance in a history of compelling originality and freshness'' Simon Sebag Montefiore

We know the Mona Lisa for her smile, but not that she was married to a slave-trader. We revere Leonardo da Vinci for his art, but few now appreciate his ingenious designs for weaponry. We visit Florence to see Michelangelo''s David, but hear nothing of the massacre that forced the republic''s surrender. In fact, many of the Renaissance''s most celebrated artists and thinkers emerged not during the celebrated ''rebirth'' of the fifteenth century but amidst the death and destruction of the sixteenth century.

The Beauty and the Terror is an enrapturing narrative which includes the forgotten women writers, Jewish merchants, mercenaries, prostitutes, farmers and citizens who lived the Renaissance every day. Brimming with life, it takes us closer than ever before to the reality of this astonishing era, and its meaning for today.

''Terrifying and fascinating'' Sunday Times

''Enlightening...exactly the alternative history you might wish for'' Daily Telegraph

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 432
ISBN-13: 9781784707941
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1784707945
Kategori: Italy
Udg. Dato: 4 mar 2021
Længde: 31mm
Bredde: 196mm
Højde: 129mm
Forlag: Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato: 4 mar 2021
Forfatter(e): Catherine Fletcher
Forfatter(e) Catherine Fletcher

Kategori Italy

ISBN-13 9781784707941

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 432

Udgave

Længde 31mm

Bredde 196mm

Højde 129mm

Udg. Dato 4 mar 2021

Oplagsdato 4 mar 2021

Forlag Vintage Publishing

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