The Ugly Renaissance, Alexander Lee ¦ 9780091944346 ¦ Hardback ¦ 2013 ¦ Like New

The Ugly Renaissance\n\nby Alexander Lee\n\nHardback\n\nCondition: Unread (see below for details)\n\nAuthor: Alexander Lee\n\nPublisher:  Hutchinson\n\nFormat: Hardback with Dust Jacket\n\nISBN:  9780091944346\n\n \n\nRenowned as an age of artistic rebirth, the Renaissance is cloaked with an aura of beauty and brilliance.\n\nBut behind the Mona Lisa s smile lurked a seamy, vicious world of power politics, perversity and corruption that has more in common with the present day than anyone dares to admit. Enter a world of corrupt bankers, greedy politicians, sex-crazed priests, rampant disease, and lives of extravagance and excess.\n\nEnter the world of the ugly Renaissance.\n\nUncovering the hidden realities beneath the surface of the period s best-known artworks, historian Alexander Lee takes the reader on a breathtaking and unexpected journey through the Italian past and shows that, far from being the product of high-minded ideals, the sublime monuments of the Renaissa;