Inspired by the beauty of the Renaissance and the extravagance of
Baroque art, this poetry collection delights in the splendors of the
past with its descriptions of forgotten glories, remote places, and
colorful meditations on unusual relics and marvels.Moving between
different languages, continents, and time periods, the poems vary
fromrecollections of the world of the 17th century to shorter sequences
that view contemporary England through the eyes of a spy, to a group of
elegies and epistles about the place and history of northern Scotland."