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The Wars of the Roses by Hugh Bicheno
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Wars of the Roses were a prolonged brawl over an inheritance by a deeply dysfunctional extended family. The inheritance in question was the throne of England; the story is one of unbridled ambition and murderous treachery. From the 1450s, when the mentally unstable Henry VI struggled to control the ...Show more
Vendetta: High art & low cunning at the birth of the Renaissance by Hugh Bicheno
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, was the archetypal 'Renaissance man': a brilliant soldier, scholar and ally of the pope, he spent much of the vast wealth on commissioning artists to decorate the city. Sigismondo Malatesta, lord of the neighbouring city of Rimini, was also a brilliant soldier an ...Show more
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