The Beauty and the Terror by Catherine Fletcher
The Beauty and the Terror by Catherine Fletcher
SKU: 9781784707941 • Barcode: 9781784707941

The Beauty and the Terror

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Main subject: European history
  • Genre / subject: Church history
  • Author: Catherine Fletcher
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

The Beauty and the Terror by Catherine Fletcher is a history book for adult readers.

The Italian Renaissance shaped Western culture - but it was far stranger and darker than many of us realise. We know the Mona Lisa for her smile, but not that she was married to a slave-trader. We revere Leonardo da Vinci for his art, but few now appreciate his ingenious designs for weaponry. We visit Florence to see Michelangelo's David, but hear nothing of the massacre that forced the republic's surrender.

In fact, many of the Renaissance's most celebrated artists and thinkers emerged not during the celebrated 'rebirth' of the fifteenth century but amidst the death and destruction of the sixteenth century. The Beauty and the Terror is an enrapturing narrative which includes the forgotten women writers, Jewish merchants, mercenaries, prostitutes, farmers and citizens who lived the Renaissance every day.

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