Three Golden Ages: Discovering the Creative Secrets of Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan England, and America's FoundingMadison Books, 1998 M11 13 - 648 pages In this intriguing book, best-selling author Alf Mapp, Jr. explores three periods in Western history that exploded with creativity: Elizabethan England, Renaissance Florence, and America's founding. What enabled these societies to make staggering jumps in scientific knowledge, develop new political structures, or create timeless works of art? |
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