The teacher of the Oxford university Alexander Ли suggests newly to give a glance on the epoch of Renaissance : as not temptingly it was to consider him the era of cultural revival and progress, prosperity and artistic beauty, the achievements of Renaissance always existed in parallel with gloomy, dirty reality. Insidious bankers, greedy politicians, lustful priests, monstrous epidemics, being in an unthinkable clover and debauch is all was a norm. Magnificent monuments of Revival were not only the fruit of high ideals, and created by the artists, that lived in the world of inequality, fanaticism and hatred, exhausted at times. This book is a trip on the surprisingly contradictory past of Italy, the past without that we would not have the opportunity to admire the masterpieces of Renaissance in the museums of the whole world today.