From King Death to King Sun

What is the continent we call Europe?
When and how was its modern civilization founded?
What brilliant minds and what mischievous personalities wrote its most splendid pages and its bloodiest chapters?

In this book we will answer all the above and we will see European history as we have never seen it before. We will encounter extravagant monarchs, cunning clerics and depraved monks. We will talk about shrewd merchants, conspiratorial bankers, greedy seafarers and boisterous sailors.

We will see oppressed minorities, abused women, tormented scientists and inspired artists, while we will read about paradoxical notions, spicy mysteries, gourmet recipes, sex scandals and deadly intrigues. But, above all, we will wonder about human nature, a nature capable of the greatest achievements and the worst catastrophes…

Europe in 11+1 stories. From the outbreak of the medieval plague to the Florentine Renaissance.
From the Fall of Constantinople to the conquest of America and India. From the amorous customs of Europeans to the great artists of the High Renaissance.
From the Reformation to the Witch Hunts and the Scientific Revolution.
From the magnificent Baroque to the golden age of French absolutism and an earthquake that shook Europeans.

Society, economy, art, science, politics and all the events that shaped European civilization, presented with humor, and at the same time with substantial seriousness and with love for humanity.