Era 4
Renaissance
The rebirth of everything
Two hundred years in which Europe painted the Sistine Chapel, sailed to continents it didn't know existed, cracked open the printing press, and broke the Church in half. The Renaissance figures are patrons and heretics, cartographers and poisoners — all of them convinced the world was being remade under their feet. First-person biographies of the artists, navigators, and reformers who dragged the medieval world into the modern one.
Chronicles in this era
No. 07 · 1452 – 1519
Leonardo da Vinci
He Filled 13,000 Pages With the Future. Then the World Lost Them for 300 Years.
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No. 08 · 1469 – 1527
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Man Who Taught Princes to Rule
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No. 12 · 1564 – 1616
William Shakespeare
The Upstart Crow Who Named the World
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