Renaissance writers and thinkers modified the idea of the monk’s cell to create refuges in which books were the only company.

The Renaissance polymath Leon Battista Alberti ... during which the sculptor almost dies of a fever. The book’s climax is a transformative religious epiphany comparable to the ecstasy of St.

The Renaissance was a period in history that saw ... Before Johannes Gutenberg's invention, reproducing a book involved copying it by hand. All across Europe, the printing press was ...

Looking back at the trans-national book phenomenon of ‘The Executed Renaissance’ – a Ukrainian literary anthology published by Jerzy Giedroyc in 1959 in France that paid tribute to the generation of ...