From the April 2024 Issue We Need to Talk About Democracy Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power By Erica Benner LR
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From the August 2023 Issue Shopping & Plucking How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity By Jill Burke Painted Love: Renaissance Marriage Portraits By Holburne Museum, Bath, until 1 October
From the December 2021 Issue Scholar in Arms The Light of Italy: The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino By Jane Stevenson LR
From the August 2021 Issue Prince of Publishers The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance By Ross King LR
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