A comprehensive, authoritative and highly original portrait of one of history’s most unjustly infamous characters.
Featuring the beauties of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, combined with the dark and hidden side of the Renaissance, by an acclaimed historian and expert in the period. Renowned as an age of artistic rebirth, the Renaissance is cloaked with an aura of beauty and brilliance.
Elite groups vary in their needs and levels of power, thus wielding differing levels of influence on state policy
A sweeping, riveting history of the Venetian ghetto, the world’s first Jewish ghetto; for readers of Simon Schama and Simon Sebag Montefiore.
An exploration of Machiavelli’s frequently bawdy poetry, his comedies, love affairs, friendships, preoccupation with truth, falsehood, and perception – all topics of urgent interest to us today.