Renaissance Lives: Portraits Of An Age
by By Rabb, Theodore K.
Category: History , Europe , Renaissance

With Renaissance Lives, Theodore K. Rabb revives a tradition of writing that was often practiced by the historians of that astounding era: to tell the story of an age by examining the lives of those who lived it. Rabb&#39;s subjects are all people who felt change gather speed around them: from Titian and Galileo to Catherine de&#39; Medici and John Milton. In their stories we see, above all, the powers of ideas to liberate, to enthrall, to provoke, and to resolve conflict.Renaissance Lives shows us the struggle &#151; with its grave disappointments but also its extraordinary achievements that accompanied the creation of the world we recognize as our own.