Contending with the Culture » Lorenzo de Medici http://redhatrob.com The Director's Blog - Rob Shearer, Francis Schaeffer Study Center, Mt. Juliet, TN Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:00:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 New books on the bedside table – March 13, 2009 http://redhatrob.com/2009/03/new-books-on-the-bedside-table-march-13-2009/ http://redhatrob.com/2009/03/new-books-on-the-bedside-table-march-13-2009/#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:00:28 +0000 admin http://redhatrob.com/?p=680 Lives of the Ancient Egyptians: Pharaohs, Queens, Courtiers and Commoners
by Toby Wilkinson (Thames & Hudson, 2007)

100 biographies – Many Pharaohs, but there are others, including Imhotep the Architect; Metjen, Pharaoh’s servant; Perniankhu, court dwarf; Hemira, priestess from the Delta; Senenmut, Hatshetsup’s Architect.

Of course Hatshepsut, Akhenaten, and Tut get their own chapters as do a host of other, more obscure rulers. I’m looking forward to it. And one day, I’m going to write a Famous men of Egypt for Greenleaf to publish.
The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded
by Marcello Simonetta

An Italian Ph.D. student at Yale (himself a descendant of one of the Renaissance Chancellors of Milan) uncovers evidence of the involvement of the Duke of Urbino in the plot to murder the Medici carried out (with the blessing of the Pope) in 1478.

Murder, mystery, conspiracy, coded letters, Renaissance history – what’s not to like?

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