The Civilization of Europe in the RenaissanceThe masterpiece of Britains leading Renaissance scholar. Winner of the Time Life Silver Pen Award and The Royal Society of Literature Award. A superb evocation of the Europe of the long 16th century, wonderfully fresh and rich in its copious illustrative detail, full of innumerable delights. The book is the summation of John Hales career as a historian, and as the crowning achievement of a master designer whose richly fabricated works have given so