Renaissance lives portraits of an age [WorldCat Entities]

"With [this book, the author] returns to a tradition of writing that was often practiced during that era of astounding creativity: telling the larger story of the age through the lives of notable individuals. [He] describes fifteen men and women - some familiar, such as Catherine de' Medici and Galileo, and others less so, such as Gluckel of Hameln, a diarist and merchant. These figures help us see anew the trials and triumphs that transformed their age. In [this book] we encounter close up the political, artistic, economic, religious, philosophic, and scientific struggles that gave rise to modern world. -Back cover."