Nonfiction books about the Italian renaissance
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last updated May, 2026
On Conspiracies (A Selection of 7 Essays) (Great Ideas #083)
Niccolò Machiavelli
Inferno
Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy
The Prince
Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence (Studies in the History of Sexuality)
Michael Rocke
Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
Ada Palmer
The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded
Marcello Simonetta
How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity
Jill Burke
Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna
Ramie Targoff
Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword
Milo Manara
Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles – A Biography of the Revolutionary Italian Artist Who Painted Ordinary People (Eminent Lives)
Francine Prose
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
Paul Strathern
The Lives of the Artists
Giorgio Vasari
Renaissance Diplomacy
Garrett Mattingly
Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy
Lauro Martines
April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici
Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
Ross King
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