I thought I needed a break from my extended rambles in the 15th and 16th centuries and as the Python's say "and now for something completely different" I picked up Alan Lightman's The Horde
Recently finished a book that brought me back in contact with a subject and personalities I studied in college (back in the dawn of time). My interest then as now should come as no surprise as Vespasiano da Bisticci was one of the foremost booksellers of his day, another terrific look at the Renaissance by Ross King