The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization by Paul Strathern

The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization

Italian Histories

Paul Strathern

400 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging medium-paced
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A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth to the Renaissance. Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something happened that transformed the entire culture of ...

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