Renaissance Emir

A Druze Warlord at the Court of the Medici Fakhr ad-Din Ma'n was a small man with outsize ambitions, and Renaissance Emir tells his story, a unique account of cultural discovery with a tragic end. A Druze prince who fled his mountain to seek refuge in Florence at the end of the Renaissance, he took along a diverse party of Moslem, Christian, and Jewish Levantines on their first visit to the 'Lands of the Christians'. The Medici princes, ... Full description