Worldly Goods
Subtitle: A New History of the Renaissance
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: September 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780393318661
First sentence: CONSTANTINOPLE (now Istanbul) stands on a peninsula at the mouth of the Bosphorus, dominating the route from the Black Sea via the Sea of Marmora into the eastern Mediterranean.