Geometry of Genius: How Masonry and Mathematics Built the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence

What does it truly mean to step inside a miracle? For the seasoned historian, reading about the past can often feel like looking at a pressed flower inside a ledger—dry, flat, and stripped of the fragrant life that once made it vibrant. We are routinely inundated with sterile architectural textbooks that treat the great cathedrals of Europe as mere civil engineering projects, analyzing their mason...