The Beauty And The Terror Clare Beams As the winged ship Aurora

As the winged ship Aurora sets sail

From Boudica to Greta Thunberg and Margaret Thatcher to Malala

with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain

Even at ten

The Beauty And The Terror Clare Beams As the winged ship AuroraThe Italian Renaissance shaped Western culture but it was far stranger and darker than many of us realize. We know the Mona Lisa for her smile, but not that she was married to a slave trader. We revere Leonardo da Vinci for his art, but few now appreciate his ingenious designs for weaponry. We visit Florence to see Michelangelo's David, but hear nothing of the massacre that forced the republic's surrender. In fact, many of the Renaissance's most