Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period in Europe, from the 14th to the 17th century, considered the bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history. It started as a cultural movement in Italy in the Late Medieval period and later spread to the rest of Europe, marking the beginning of the Early Modern Age.

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Graceless Heart (The Spellbound History, #1)
The Marriage Portrait
The Medici Return (Cotton Malone, #19)
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
Perspective(s)
The Six Loves of James I
A Poisoner's Tale
A Little Trickerie
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History
The Stolen Lady
The King's Pleasure (Tudor Rose, #2)
Costanza
City of Vengeance (Cesare Aldo #1)
Florenzer
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
Disobedient
The Prince
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Macbeth
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Birth of Venus
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
King Lear
The Tempest
Othello
Don Quixote
Utopia
Dr. Faustus
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Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté. ...more
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Spike, rake, sponge, charge, wad, shot, wad – the gun crews worked like automatons. There was something extraordinary in the way that every man performed his motions as a part of the action. Every movement was synchronised with the next. They were a perfect machine – each one a piece of the mechanism, like the wheels of the watch in his pocket. He could think of no other example of men working together with such precision. This was man, industry and science in unison. Was this the way of the fut ...more
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