The Renaissance
Renaissance classics, in modern English.
The age that put the individual conscience at the centre of a book and then had to live with the consequences. Its prose is closer to us than its distance suggests: an argument conducted at speed, by writers who expected to be contradicted. Each Aeneas Press edition presents the complete work with spelling and punctuation in present-day American usage, illustrated with credited full-page plates.
The editions
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