The Renaissance polymath Leon Battista Alberti ... during which the sculptor almost dies of a fever. The book’s climax is a transformative religious epiphany comparable to the ecstasy of St ...

You don’t have to look far in the past to see a time when romance was widely thought of as low-brow or embarrassing, said Katherine Nazzaro, manager of Porter Square Books: Boston Edition.

The Renaissance was a period in history that saw ... Before Johannes Gutenberg's invention, reproducing a book involved copying it by hand. All across Europe, the printing press was ...

Books line the walls from floor to ceiling ... investigation into the personal library,” with an emphasis on Renaissance humanists such as Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) and François Rabelais ...

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