RENAISSANCE

Topics include Florence, the Medici, the Bronze Head, Brunelleschi’s Dome, da Vinci, Michelangelo, education and Renaissance women, life of the lower classes, the Northern Renaissance, the printing press, the Reformation, music and the Harmony of the Spheres, food and feasts, fashion and hygiene, the Age of Exploration, the rise of the nation-state, Machiavelli, and Elizabethan England.