10 best books of August: the Monitor's picks

Here are 10 August must-reads suggested by the Monitor's book critics.

8. "Death in Florence," by Paul Strathern

Strathern (historian and author of "The Venetians") tells the dramatic story of the intersection of two legendary 15th-century figures: Lorenzo (the Magnificent) de’ Medici, the grand but ruinously ambitious patron of Renaissance Florence, and Girolamo Savonarola, the fiery monk who incautiously crusaded against de' Medici and his kind.

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