Renaissance means "rebirth" in French. The Renaissance period of European history is aptly named because people had a rebirth, or renewed, interest in the ideas
One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing n
The Renaissance in National Context aims to dispel the commonly-held view that the great efflorescence of art, learning and culture in the period from c. 1350 t