Word: durant
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...Renaissance, by Will Durant. Volume V of the ambitious popular survey o Western civilization which has engaged Historian Durant for nearly 25 year (TIME, Sept...
...Renaissance, by Will Durant. Volume V of the ambitious popular survey of Western civilization which has engaged Historian Durant for nearly 25 years (TIME. Sept...
...WILL DURANT...
...Renaissance, by Will Durant. Volume V of the ambitious popular survey of Western civilization which has engaged historian Durant for nearly 25 years 'TIME, Sept...
Medicis in Action. The Renaissance, as he lays it out, "first of all ... took money-smelly bourgeois money"; and he growls for good measure a byword of the 19th century materialism that shaped his attitude: "Money is the root of all civilization." Following this economic predilection, Durant gives the clearest description in any one-volume history of the age of the fiscal and political hotbed of Florence, where those hardy perennials, the Medici, first reared their brilliant heads. Item: he recites with delight how the fiscal-minded Florentines won a war against Venice and Naples by calling in so many...