From the November 2015 Issue Delft Touches Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing By Laura J Snyder LR
From the July 2004 Issue Escapades of an Agitator Jem Sultan: The Adventures of a Captive Turkish Prince in Renaissance Europe By John Freely
From the December 2014 Issue To Mozambique & Beyond The Visitor: André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia By Liam Matthew Brockey LR
From the September 2011 Issue The Heirs of Lucretius The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began By Stephen Greenblatt LR
From the May 2006 Issue Speaking with the Dead The English Civil War: A People’s History By Diane Purkiss LR
From the March 2006 Issue Fundamentalist Friar Scourge and Fire: Savonarola and Renaissance Italy By Lauro Martines LR
From the March 2012 Issue The Mad Prophet and Mach the Knife Savonarola: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet By Donald Weinstein Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology By Paul Oppenheimer LR
From the May 2012 Issue What Killed the Cat? Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything By Philip Ball LR
From the March 2014 Issue The Painter’s Painter Piero della Francesca: Artist & Man By James R Banker LR
From the May 2013 Issue Pictures of Thought The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes By Steven Nadler LR
From the February 2014 Issue Roads to Xanadu Mr Selden’s Map of China: The Spice Trade, a Lost Chart and the South China Sea By Timothy Brook
From the April 2013 Issue Cameo Appearances Medusa’s Gaze: The Extraordinary Journey of the Tazza Farnese By Marina Belozerskaya LR
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