The Beauty And The Terror Clare Beams you can do anything

you can do anything

Even at ten

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

From Boudica to Greta Thunberg and Margaret Thatcher to Malala

The Beauty And The Terror Clare Beams you can do anythingThe 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