Title: A long and dull read
Review: This book makes up for a lack of a coherent narrative with endless quotes. Jardine discusses the many ways in which the trade in worldly goods - spices, books, works of art, jewels, and other riches - expanded during the Renaissance. But it is an incoherent tale, where the overall narrative is lost in the desire to delve into the minutiae. Explanations are few and far between, what abounds instead are endless shopping list by medieval princes. How they lived and what the motivations were of these characters is not discussed. One is left with a profound sense of boredom.
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