For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Sarah Dunant

From the April 2024 Issue

We Need to Talk About Democracy

Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power

By Erica Benner

From the December 2023 Issue

Naked Attraction

Earthly Delights: A History of the Renaissance

By Jonathan Jones

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 July 2023 Issue

The Marchioness & Me

Meetings with Isabella d’Este

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

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

From the May 2020 Issue

Love at Second Sight

A Renaissance Marriage: The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490–1519

By Carolyn James

From the April 2019 Issue

An American in Florence

House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo

By Allison Levy