The Beauty and the Terror - Fletcher Catherine

'Brilliant and gripping, here is the full true Renaissance in a history of compelling originality and freshness' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIOREThe Italian Renaissance shaped western culture - but it was far stranger and darker than many of us realise.We revere Leonardo da Vinci for his art but few now appreciate his ingenious designs for weaponry. We know the Mona Lisa for her smile but not that she was married to a slave-trader. We visit Florence to see Michelangelo's David but hear nothing of the massacre... Zobrazit více