RenaissanceHaris Vlavianos Known for his spare, precise, and emotionally charged poetry, acclaimed Greek poet Haris Vlavianos paints 36 quixotic poem portraits of Renaissance figures to remind us that the past is always present. Vlavianos focusses on a central period of turbulence and renewal in European history through the ventriloquized voices of both well known and marginal characters of the time. Renaissance traces their hopes, dreams, and disappointments,