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Five Best: Books on the Italian Renaissance
The Renaissance polymath Leon Battista Alberti ... during which the sculptor almost dies of a fever. The book’s climax is a transformative religious epiphany comparable to the ecstasy of St ...
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There’s no such thing as a ‘golden age,’ says Renaissance scholar
In new book, UChicago’s Ada Palmer explores popular misunderstandings of the Renaissance and historical myths used for ...
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Column: Paintings that vanish and books that go missing
Day, the author of Baby Meets World, wrote his narrative nonfiction as an account of the attempt to steal the Mona Lisa in ...
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The Renaissance: the rebirth of medicine, 14th to 17th century
The Renaissance was a period in history that saw ... Before Johannes Gutenberg's invention, reproducing a book involved copying it by hand. All across Europe, the printing press was ...
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The Executed Renaissance: The Book that Saved Ukrainian Literature from Soviet Oblivion
The title of the book Rozstrilane Vidrodzhennia (literally: The Shot Renaissance) was allegedly proposed by Giedroyc, although the phrase was used by Lavrinenko earlier. The term ‘Renaissance’ ...