Tiepolo Pink

8 best books like Tiepolo Pink (Roberto Calasso): Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, The Bull from the Sea, Heart of a Dog, History of Beauty, Trieste and The Meaning of Nowhere, Master of Shadows: The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, The King Must Die

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Author	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
ISBN	1400067820

From the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost philosophers of our time, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a book on how some systems actually benefit from disorder.

In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem; in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder...

The Bull from the Sea

Author	Mary Renault
ISBN	0099463539

4.5 stars

Mary Renault’s _The Bull from the Sea_ takes up where The King Must Die left off and continues the legendary story of Theseus and his kingship of Attica. There are some differences between this volume and its predecessor, most notably in the fact that the scope of this tale is much...

Heart of a Dog

Author	Mikhail Bulgakov
ISBN	0802150594

Mikhail Bulgakov's absurdist parable of the Russian Revolution.

A world-famous Moscow professor -- rich, successful, and violently envied by his neighbors -- befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland...

History of Beauty

Author	Umberto Eco
ISBN	0847826465

Now in paperback, Umberto Eco’s groundbreaking and much-acclaimed first illustrated book has been a critical success since its first publication in 2004. What is beauty? Umberto Eco, among Italy’s finest and most important contemporary thinkers, explores the nature, the meaning, and the...

Trieste and The Meaning of Nowhere

Author	Jan Morris
ISBN	0306811804

Here's a book for lovers of all things Italian. This city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century, she has come to see it as a touchstone for her interests and preoccupations: cities, seas, empires. It...

Master of Shadows: The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens

Author	Mark Lamster
ISBN	0385523793

The true story of how seventeenth-century Europe's most famous painter doubled as a secret agent and negotiated a peace between superpowers.Peter Paul Rubens is best remembered as the Old Master with the penchant for fleshy, pink nudes whose popularity was eclipsed by that of Rembrandt van Rijn....

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Author	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
ISBN	1400069971

The Bed of Procrustes is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black...

The King Must Die

Author

Mary Renault

“Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity,...