The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
9 best books like The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped (Paul Strathern): Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture, The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici, April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519, Niccolò's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli, Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths, The Secrets of Rome: Love and Death in the Eternal City, Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
| Author | Ross King |
| ISBN | 0142000159 |
Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance man bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder. Not a master mason or carpenter, Filippo Brunelleschi was a goldsmith and clock maker. Over twenty-eight years, he would dedicate himself to solving puzzles...
| Author | Elizabeth Lev |
| ISBN | 0151012997 |
The astonishing life of a long-misunderstood Renaissance virago.Wife, mother, leader, warrior. Caterina Riario Sforza was one of the most prominent women in Renaissance Italy—and one of the most vilified. In this glittering biography, Elizabeth Lev reexamines her extraordinary life and accomplishments.Raised...
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 narrative opens up an entire culture, revealing the dark side of Renaissance man and politician Lorenzo de' Medici.
On a Sunday...
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
| Author | Arthur Herman |
| ISBN | 0609809997 |
Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education,...
| Author | Christopher Hibbert |
| ISBN | 0151010331 |
The first major biography of the Borgias in thirty years, Christopher Hibbert's latest history brings the family and the world they lived in—the glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissance—to life.The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance...
| Author | Maurizio Viroli |
| ISBN | 0374528004 |
Este apasionante estudio de Maurizio Viroli, que reivindica al tan vapuleado Nicolás Maquiavelo (1469-1527) como uno de los más inteligentes historiadores y pensadores políticos de todos los tiempos, es el mejor pórtico de la nueva colección Tiempo de Memoria, en su vertiente de historia....
| Author | Karen Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0345391683 |
"SPLENDID . . . Eminently sane and patient . . . Essential reading for Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike."
--The Washington Post
Venerated for millennia by three faiths, torn by irreconcilable conflict, conquered, rebuilt, and mourned for again and again, Jerusalem is a sacred city...
| Author | Corrado Augias |
| ISBN | 0847829332 |
From Italy's popular author Corrado Augias comes the most intriguing exploration of Rome ever to be published. In the mold of his earlier histories of Paris, New York, and London, Augias moves perceptively through twenty-seven centuries of Roman life, shedding new light on a cast of famous, and infamous,...
Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World
| Author | Brad S. Gregory |
| ISBN | 0062471201 |
When Martin Luther published his 95 Theses in October 1517, he had no intention of starting a revolution. But very quickly his criticism of indulgences became a rejection of the papacy and the Catholic Church emphasizing the Bible as the sole authority for Christian faith, radicalizing a continent,...
