Non-fiction books about the renaissance. Books written during or leading up to the renaissance. and fiction books set during the renaissance.
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Venice: A Maritime Republic
Frederic C. Lane
Inspiration and Authority in the Middle Ages: Prophets and their Critics from Scholasticism to Humanism (Oxford Historical Monographs)
Brian Fitzgerald
From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Europe
Anthony Grafton
Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
After the Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe
George Huppert
The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City
Iris Origo
City States in Classical Antiquity and Medieval Italy
Anthony Molho
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style
Michael Baxandall
The Language Of History In The Renaissance: Rhetoric And Historical Consciousness In Florentine Humanism
Nancy S. Struever
In Search of God and Self: Renaissance and Reformation Thought
Donald J. Wilcox
Caterina Sforza
Cristina Castillón Puig
The Venetians (Italian Histories)
Paul Strathern
Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy
James Hankins
Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
Thomas Cahill
The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded
Marcello Simonetta
Princes of the Renaissance: The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution
Mary Hollingsworth
Princes of the Renaissance
Olivier Bernier
Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps
Chet Van Duzer
Vendetta: High Art and Low Cunning at the Birth of the Renaissance
Hugh Bicheno
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
Frances A. Yates
Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance
J.R. Hale
A Companion to Renaissance Drama
Arthur F. Kinney
Niccolò's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli
Maurizio Viroli
Machiavelli: A Biography
Miles J. Unger
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
Laurence Bergreen
The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King
Princess Michael of Kent
Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
Veronica Buckley
The Pope's Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere
Caroline P. Murphy
Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages
Richard E. Rubenstein
Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna
Ramie Targoff
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