The Devil's Broker: Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth-Century Italy by Frances Stonor Saunders
The Devil's Broker: Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth-Century Italy

Frances Stonor Saunders

The Devil's Broker: Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth-Century Italy

Frances Stonor Saunders

352 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative fast-paced
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"There were good ways to die,and there were bad ways to die."So begins this effervescent history of an Italy about to shake itself free of the medieval age and move confidently into the Renaissance. First, though, there was an ordeal to pass throu...

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