The Renaissance: The rebirth of the world

The age of rediscovery — Machiavelli, More, and Bacon, when Europe woke to antiquity and remade art, politics, and thought.

In this collection

• The Resurrection
• The Schoolmistress's Story
• Dinner, Real and Reputed
• The Brothers
• The Wild Knight and other Poems: King's Cross Station
• A Cure for the Blues
• Shew Us the Father
• The Colonel's Soliloquy
• Caesar and Cleopatra
• Three Dominican Nuns
• Head and Bottle
• Wild Margaret
• The Magic Skin
• The Kami
• Rome: the Vatican-Sala Delle Muse
• Forgiveness
• Virtue in War
• The Edge of the World
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