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Renaissance & History

Lucy Wooding

Northern Lights

The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare

By Paul Strathern

December 2021 Issue

Sarah Dunant

Scholar in Arms

The Light of Italy: The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino

By Jane Stevenson

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

June 2020 Issue

Bijan Omrani

Good Rule Hunting

Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy

By James Hankins

April 2019 Issue

Sarah Dunant

An American in Florence

House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo

By Allison Levy

February 2019 Issue

David Abulafia

Classical Connections

The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found – A History in Seven Cities

By Violet Moller

August 2002 Issue

John Adamson

Did They Pullulate?

Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance Convent

By Mary Laven

March 2003 Issue

Leonie Frieda

Murder In The Cathedral

April Blood: Florence & the Plot against the Medici

By Lauro Martines

August 2006 Issue

Allan Massie

Regarding Rudolf

The Theatre of the World: Alchemy, Astrology and Magic in Renaissance Prague

By Peter Marshall

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

June 2005 Issue

Mary Emma Baxter

Haggling Their Way out of Hell

Medici Money

By Tim Parks

February 2014 Issue

James Hall

High Minds, Low Lives

The Ugly Renaissance

By Alexander Lee