Life in the Renaissance

by John E Readence

Overview

Here, award-winning historian Charles L. Mee Jr. explores life in Renaissance Italy – from the ascendancy of Florence and the Medicis to the genius of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Through wars and violence to festivals and feasts, Mee examines the people – artists, clergy, courtiers, merchants, scholars, and women - who fashioned the cradle for the rebirth of the Western world.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158002687
Publisher:	New Word City, Inc.
Publication date:	04/05/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	396,476
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Charles L. Mee Jr. is the author of a dozen books of history, on such subjects as the origins of the Cold War, summit diplomacy, and the American Constitutional Convention. He was for some years the editor-in-chief of Horizon, a magazine of history, literature, and the arts. In recent years, he has written several dozen plays, which have been produced in New York, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Istanbul, and southern India, among other places around the world. Among his many honors, he has received the award for lifetime achievement in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.