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Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Cruelty, and Debauchery in the Age of Beauty

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Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Cruelty, and Debauchery in the Age of Beauty
29.99 €
Oxford University lecturer Alexander Lee offers a fresh look at the Renaissance: however tempting it may be to think of it as an era of cultural revival and progress, prosperity and artistic beauty, the achievements of the Renaissance always existed alongside a grim, sordid reality. Treacherous bankers, greedy politicians, lustful priests, monstrous epidemics, living in unthinkable luxury and debauchery were all the norm. The magnificent monuments of the Renaissance were not only the product of high ideals, but were created by sometimes tormented artists who lived in a world of inequality, bigotry and hatred. This book is a journey through Italy's wonderfully contradictory past, a past without which we would not have the opportunity today to admire the Renaissance masterpieces in museums around the world.
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