ANTWERP: THE GLORY YEARS (PB)

For half the sixteenth century, Antwerp was a dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the known world. It was also the place for breaking rules - religious, sexual, intellectual. But when Antwerp rebelled with the Dutch against the Spanish and lost, all that glory was buried, and its true history rewritten. This book sets out to bring its wilder days to life using every kind of clue: novels, paintings, songs, schoolbooks, letters and the archives of Venice, London and the Medici.