The Renaissance is arguably the most significant period in the history of art. Earls provides biographical chapters for each of the 10 most famous artists from the European Renaissance: Alberti Brunelleschi Donatello Fra Filippo Lippi Giotto Da Vinci Mantegna Masacio Michelangelo Raphael
While his detractors found his verse to be deliberately obscure, Robert Browning resisted such charges and went on to become one of he most critically acclaimed and popular English poets of the 19th century. Known for his imaginative originality and dramatic power, Browning is one of the most undervalued major poets of the English language, as is evidence in his enduring works such as "My Last Duchess", "Fra Lippo Lippi", "Childe Roland" to the "Dark Tower Came", "Andrea del Sarto", and "Caliban Upon Setebos".