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  • Francesca Fiorani The best books to understand the art and culture of Renaissance Florence Book cover of Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style Book cover of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Book cover of The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance Book cover of Cosimo De' Medici and the Florentine Renaissance: The Patron's Oeuvre Book cover of The Companion Guide to Florence
  • Gina Buonaguro The best books about women in Renaissance Venice Book cover of Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent Book cover of In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel Book cover of The Midwife of Venice Book cover of Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice Book cover of Ciao, Carpaccio! An Infatuation
  • Nicholas Scott Baker The best books that explore what Renaissance Italy was really like Book cover of Public Life in Renaissance Florence Book cover of Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli During the Renaissance Book cover of The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro De' Medici Book cover of Love and Death in Renaissance Italy Book cover of Everyday Renaissances: The Quest for Cultural Legitimacy in Venice
  • Sharon Bennett Connolly The best books on histories of medieval families Book cover of The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown Book cover of Crusaders and Revolutionaries of the Thirteenth Century: De Montfort Book cover of Red Roses: Blanche of Gaunt to Margaret Beaufort Book cover of The Brandon Men: In the Shadow of Kings Book cover of On the Trail of the Yorks
  • Adele Jordan The best books for exciting adventure in the Renaissance to keep the pulse racing Book cover of Dark Fire Book cover of City of Vengeance Book cover of The Royal Secret Book cover of Martyr Book cover of Act of Oblivion
  • Meredith K. Ray The best books about women’s lives in the Renaissance Book cover of Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna Book cover of How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity Book cover of Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power Book cover of Sarra Copia Sulam: A Jewish Salonnière and the Press in Counter-Reformation Venice Book cover of Sacred Hearts
  • Jacopo della Quercia The best books for understanding the dark side of Shakespeare's world Book cover of The Witchcraft Sourcebook Book cover of Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage Book cover of Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy Book cover of Shakespeare the Man Book cover of De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem
  • Ross King The best books about books Book cover of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World Book cover of The World of Aldus Manutius: Business and Scholarship in Renaissance Venice Book cover of The Book on the Bookshelf Book cover of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Book cover of The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library
  • Peter Elbling The best bloody and tasty books about the brilliance, cruelty, and especially the food, of the Italian Renaissance Book cover of The Decameron Book cover of De honesta voluptate Book cover of Aretino's Dialogues Book cover of The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Book cover of The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
  • Toby Lester The best books on the geographical ideas that informed the age of discovery Book cover of The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus Book cover of The Story of Maps Book cover of The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies Book cover of Ptolemy’s Geography in the Renaissance Book cover of The History of Cartography, Volume 3: Cartography in the European Renaissance
  • Celeste McNamara The best books on Renaissance Italy Book cover of The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento Book cover of Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli During the Renaissance Book cover of Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy Book cover of Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection Book cover of Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
  • Helen Hackett The best books on how Shakespeare thought about the mind Book cover of Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance Book cover of Being Protestant in Reformation Britain Book cover of The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy: Robert Burton in Context Book cover of Phantasmatic Shakespeare: Imagination in the Age of Early Modern Science Book cover of Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition
  • Jeannie Mobley The best historical fiction about art and the artists behind it Book cover of Girl with a Pearl Earring Book cover of The Last Painting of Sara De Vos Book cover of Midnight Blue Book cover of All the Light We Cannot See Book cover of The Marriage Portrait
  • Emily J. Edwards The best mystery books set in the perfect time & place Book cover of The Big Rewind Book cover of Dead Dead Girls Book cover of A Quiet Life in the Country Book cover of Take Her Down Book cover of A Morbid Taste for Bones
  • Janice Maynard The best beach reads that make you laugh out loud and sigh at the sexy sweetness Book cover of When in Rome Book cover of The Family You Make Book cover of Miracle on 5th Avenue Book cover of Crazy Rich Asians Book cover of Simply Magic
  • JD McKelvin The best books to explore your inner darkness Book cover of A Game of Thrones Book cover of Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West Book cover of Hawaii Book cover of Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems Book cover of Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
  • Owen W. Knight Owen W. Knight's favourite books that conjure up a sense of place Book cover of The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) Book cover of Titus Groan Book cover of The Dark is Rising Book cover of Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error Book cover of The Last House on Needless Street
  • Cormac O'Brien The best books on early modern European warfare Book cover of The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West 1500-1800 Book cover of Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the 16th Century Book cover of Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics Book cover of Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660 Book cover of The Thirty Years War
  • Elizabeth Goldring The best books on Tudor art and architecture Book cover of Picture and Poetry, 1560-1620: Relations Between Literature and the Visual Arts in the English Renaissance Book cover of Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House Book cover of A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 Book cover of The Elizabethan Image: An Introduction to English Portraiture, 1558-1603 Book cover of Houses of Power
  • Clarissa Pattern The best stories wherein a fictional Shakespeare enters stage right Book cover of Dream Country Book cover of The Daylight Gate Book cover of The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory Book cover of A Dead Man in Deptford Book cover of No Bed for Bacon
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