Inventing The Renaissance: Myths Of A Golden Age Ada Palmer Apollo Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

The Renaissance Is One Of Most Studied And Celebrated Eras History Spanning End Middle Ages To Beginning Modernity It Has Come Symbolise Transformative Rebirth Knowledge Art Culture Political Thought In Europe For Last Two Hundred Years Historians Have Struggled Describe What Makes This Famous Golden Age Unique Inventing Acclaimed Historian Ada Palmer Provides A Fresh Perspective On Epoch So Captivating Her Witty Irreverent Journey Through Fantasies Constructed About Period Show How Its Legend Derives More From Later Centuries’ Mythmaking Than Often Grim Reality Itself She Examines Defining Figures Movements: Enduring Legacy Niccolò Machiavelli Rediscovery Classics Rise Medici Fall Borgias Astonishing Artistic Achievements Michelangelo Leonardo Cellini Impact Inquisition Expansion Secular Humanism Also Explores Ties Between Money: Books Example Could Cost As Much Grand Houses Period’s Innovative Thinkers Only Thrive With Help Super-Rich Offers Fifteen Provocative Entertaining Character Portraits Men Women Some Obscure Whose Intersecting Lives Real Was Unexpected International Above All Desperate Reputation Suggests Drawing Popular Blogs Writing Characteristic Energy Wit Presents We Never Seen Before Colloquial Funny Brilliant You Would Expect Work Deep Scholarship Make Alternately Laugh Cry Σελίδες: 768 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0603 Διαστάσεις: 15 6X15 6Cm