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 ...

The title of the book Rozstrilane Vidrodzhennia (literally: The Shot Renaissance) was allegedly proposed by Giedroyc, although the phrase was used by Lavrinenko earlier. The term ‘Renaissance’ ...

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 ...