Magic Italy

The new book of the famous medievist Natalia Basovskaya will allow the reader to touch the history of one of the most ancient cultural cradle of the world - Italy. Famous painters, fearless sailors and travelers, Roman dads and enterprising rulers, as well as the most exciting and significant events of the past against the background of Italian color will appear on these pages. You will learn how the blind native of the aristocratic family Enriko Dandolo received the title of the head of the Venetian Republic and influenced the outcome of the fourth crusade, who allowed Niccolo Machiavelli to write his most ambiguous work, the sovereign’s son Tommaso Campanella was recognized as the “greatest son of Italy "along with Italy. With scientist Galileo Galilee