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.

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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