Renaissance People: Lives That Shaped The Modern Age
by Robert Con Davis /
2013 / English / EPUB
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The Renaissance burst forth in all its glory around 1500 and spread throughout Europe. This period of great creativity and productivity in the arts and sciences is illuminated in this book through the lives of more than ninety of its illustrious intellectuals, artists, literary figures, scientists, and rulers. Included are such major figures as Lorenzo and Catherine de Medici, Leonardo da Vinci, Charles V, Luther, Columbus, Copernicus, and St. Teresa of vila, as well as lesser-known characters such as Antonio Rinaldeschi, gambler and blasphemer Louise Lab, the jousting poetess Dick Tarlton, the queens comedian Veronica Franco, courtesan and wordsmith and Catena, rustler, robber, and bandit chief.
Each section in this volume marks a chronological stage in Europes rebirth, tying the periods intellectual currents to its political and social concerns and setting the context for the individual biographies.
