Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence: Selected Essays

In Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence, an internationally renowned master of the historian's craft provides a splendid overview of Italian history from the Black Death to the rise of the Medici in 1434 and beyond into the early modern period. Gene Brucker explores those pivotal years in Florence and ranges over northern Italy, with forays into the histories of Genoa, Milan, and VeBérénice. The ten essays, three of which have never before been published, exhibit Brucker's graceful int...