Dedicated to John Addington Symonds, these essays explore the late medieval world: the Beguines and weaving brothers of the Low Countries, the mystics of the convent of Helfta, the Great Schism, Valentine Visconti and the French claim to Milan, the Malatesta, and the fall of Piero de’ Medici.
Graceful historical essays by a poet with a scholar’s curiosity. Download the free EPUB.