Sprezzatura
Subtitle: 50 Ways Italian Genius Shaped the World
Publisher: Anchor
Published: October 2, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780385720199
First sentence: "With his chief consultant, Sosigenes, an Alexandrian Greek astronomer and mathematician, Caesar devised a new calendar for the new Rome he was to rule, from Spain to the Middle East: a purely solar calendar of 12 months and 365 days with a leap year occurr"