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Secondhand book for saleHugh Bicheno.
Vendetta: High Art and Low Cunning at the Birth of the Renaissance.
Published London: Phoenix, 2009 (previously published in hardback by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008).
ISBN 9780753825723.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: CPI Mackays, Chatham.
Size: 133x214x25mm.
Page count: xxvii,290pp inc. inc. several monochrome maps & illustrations, plus 16 pages of colour plates.
Main language: English.
Overall condition very good: an unused copy with a little shelf wear on the covers, base of pages slightly grubby.
This item £6.50
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)[
Publisher’s price £12.99]
Weight without packaging: 417g.
An examination of the Renaissance centred on the feud between Federico da Montefeltro and Sigismondo Pandolfo and their families, which “epitomized the spirit of the condottieri — the entrepreneurs who added a military dimension to the explosion of new ideas at the heart of the Renaissance”.
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