The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Disease and Excess in an Age of Beauty by Alexander Lee

The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Disease and Excess in an Age of Beauty

Alexander Lee

624 pages first pub 2013 (editions) user-added

nonfiction historical
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Renowned as an age of artistic rebirth, the Renaissance is cloaked with an aura of beauty and brilliance. But behind the Mona Lisa’s smile lurked a seamy, vicious world of power politics, perversity and corruption that has more in common with the ...

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