Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
- ISBN-10
- 0385495587
- ISBN-13
- 9780385495585
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 341
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-08-12
- Publisher
- Anchor Books
- Author
- Thomas Cahill
Description
Discusses the Renaissance and Reformation from the late fourteenth through the early seventeenth centuries, explaining how the period's artistic and scientific innovations changed the Western world.
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