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The Life of Francois Rabelais

Jean Plattard

Biography

First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis.

humanist, middleages, renaissance

Etiquette For Renaissance Gentlemen

Baldesar Castiglione

Classic Fiction

A classic quidebook for noblemen. Upon its publication in 1528, Castigliones handbook was considered something

renaissance, shortstories

The English Face Of Machiavelli

A Changing Interpretation 1500-1700

Felix Raab

Philosophy

In inventing modern political science, Machiavelli challenged the time-honoured preconceptions of Christendom,

history, literature, machiavelli, politics, renaissance

Henry VIII

Jasper Ridley

Biography

The enthralling portrait by an acclaimed historian of one of Europes most enigmatic and formidable rulers. An e

england, king, renaissance, tudor

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

Classic Fiction

The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death.

humanist, pandemic, plague, renaissance

The Prince

Niccoló Machiavelli

Philosophy

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following observation

politics, realpolitik, renaissance