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The words Italian Renaissance evoke images of great artists, beautiful architecture, enlightened humanism, and the rediscovery and flourishing of literary pursuits. Here Lee (early modern history, St. Catherine's Coll., Oxford) provides a corrective to this near universally accepted view of the era. Jealousy, infidelity, egotism, tyranny, squalor, disease, and many other vices and plights of the low and high born were abundant and liberally distributed in grand old Italia. The Renaissance was far from being a golden age for all. Even the fam...Log In or Sign Up to Read More