The Lives of the Artists
1550 · 624 pages
Vasari was a working painter who knew Michelangelo. His lives of the Italian artists, from Cimabue onward, mix workshop technique with pure gossip, and gave us most of what we believe about genius.
★ 7.3
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
1552 · 143 pages
A Dominican friar who watched it happen set down, island by island, what Spain did to the people of the Caribbean. He forced an empire to argue whether the conquered were human.
★ 6.1