Paul Johnson. First edition. Dust Jacket: Near Fine. An unclipped jacket designed by Gabrielle Bordwin. Hardcover: Near Fine. New York: The Modern Library, 2000. No writing or markings in the book, like new, 196 pp.
The author, educated at Oxford, has published a number of landmark works on history, philosophy and religion. He is considered one of the preeminent historians of our time.
The Renaissance holds an undying place in the human imagination, and its great heroes remain our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern; reviving the city as the center of human activity and the acme of civilization; and, of course, producing the most astonishing outpouring of artistic creation the world has ever known. Perhaps no era in history was more revolutionary, and none has been more romanticized.
