Download or read book 1434: The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance written by Gavin Menzies and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-02-02 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and technology that formed the basis of the European Renaissance and our modern world.