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Vasari on Giotto, Leonardo and Michelangelo; art history begins in 1550.

The Renaissance in one walkable city: Michelangelo's David, Brunelleschi's dome, and the Uffizi

Botticelli's Birth of Venus, Leonardo, Raphael and Caravaggio under one Renaissance roof in Florence

Stand before the 5.17 m marble David — Michelangelo's flawless Renaissance colossus in Florence

Ezio Auditore in Renaissance Florence and Venice; the game that made the series.

Ten young Florentines tell a hundred stories while the plague rages; the first modern prose.

Socrates on justice, the philosopher-king and the cave; the book Western philosophy replies to.

Edward Said on how the West invented the East to rule it.