March 2022 Issue Jonathan Keates Secrets of the Seraglio The Lion House: The Coming of a King By By Christopher de Bellaigue LR
October 2021 Issue Dmitri Levitin How Philology Changed the World The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400–1800 By Christopher S Celenza LR
May 2020 Issue Sarah Dunant Love at Second Sight A Renaissance Marriage: The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490–1519 By Carolyn James LR
March 2020 Issue Mary Hollingsworth Popes on the Warpath The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance By Catherine Fletcher LR
March 2017 Issue Catherine Fletcher Florence & the Machinator Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli’s Lifelong Quest for Freedom By Erica Benner
April 2016 Issue Jonathan Keates The Utility of Bastards The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous Times of Alessandro de’ Medici By Catherine Fletcher
April 2003 Issue Sarah Bradford Renaissance Woman Lavinia Fontana: A Painter and Her Patrons In Sixteenth-Century Bologna By Caroline P Murphy LR
February 2004 Issue Carole Seymour-Jones Fatal Attraction Beatrice's Spell: The Enduring Legend of Beatrice Cenci By Belinda Jack LR
October 2004 Issue Christopher Ondaatje Courting The Madonna Raphael: From Urbino To Rome By Hugo Chapman, Tom Henry, Carol Plazzotta LR
April 2008 Issue Sarah Bradford My Last Duchess Isabella de’ Medici: The Glorious Life and Tragic End of a Renaissance Princess By Caroline P Murphy LR
March 2012 Issue Jerry Brotton 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
June 2012 Issue Paul Johnson Worshipper of Women Raphael: A Passionate Life By Antonio Forcellino (Translated by Lucinda Byatt) LR
July 2013 Issue Blair Worden Politician, Know Thyself The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World that He Made By Philip Bobbitt Niccolò Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography By Corrado Vivanti (Translated by Simon MacMichael)
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