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The Devil's Broker : Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth-Century Italy
The Devil's Broker Seeking Gold God and Glory in FourteenthCentury Italy
Author: Frances Stonor Saunders
"There were good ways to die, — and there were bad ways to die." So begins this effervescent history of an Italy about to shake itself free of the medieval age and move confidently into the Renaissance. First, though, there was an ordeal to pass through, one worthy of the imagination of Dante. Unleashed by a pause in the cataclysmic Hundred Years...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780060777296
ISBN-10: 006077729X
Publication Date: 5/24/2005
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Fourth Estate
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Very interesting book on the movers and shakers of the 14th century
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