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Robin Simon
Who Needs Florence?
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350
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Alexander Lee
In the Tongues of Immortals
The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Sublime Language
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Sarah Dunant
Scholar in Arms
The Light of Italy: The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino
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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
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Sarah Dunant
Prince of Publishers
The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
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Bijan Omrani
Good Rule Hunting
Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy
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Sarah Dunant
Love at Second Sight
A Renaissance Marriage: The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490–1519
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Mary Hollingsworth
Popes on the Warpath
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
By Catherine Fletcher
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Mary Hollingsworth
View from the Palazzo
Out of Italy
By Fernand Braudel
A Month in Siena
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April 2019 Issue
Sarah Dunant
An American in Florence
House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo
By Allison Levy
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Catherine Fletcher
Florence & the Machinator
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli’s Lifelong Quest for Freedom
By Erica Benner
March 2003 Issue
Leonie Frieda
Murder In The Cathedral
April Blood: Florence & the Plot against the Medici
By Lauro Martines
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Sarah Bradford
Renaissance Woman
Lavinia Fontana: A Painter and Her Patrons In Sixteenth-Century Bologna
By Caroline P Murphy
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June 2004 Issue
Sarah Bradford
Biography of A Wardrobe
The Cardinal's Hat: Money, Ambition and Housekeeping in A Renaissance Court
By Mary Hollingsworth
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October 2004 Issue
Christopher Ondaatje
Courting The Madonna
Raphael: From Urbino To Rome
By Hugo Chapman, Tom Henry, Carol Plazzotta
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Jonathan Keates
Poison, What Poison?
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy
By Sarah Bradford
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Charles Saumarez Smith
A Life of Infinite Possibilities
Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind
By Charles Nicholl
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Sarah Bradford
My Last Duchess
Isabella de’ Medici: The Glorious Life and Tragic End of a Renaissance Princess
By Caroline P Murphy
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Mary Emma Baxter
Haggling Their Way out of Hell
Medici Money
By Tim Parks
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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
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It wasn’t until 1825 that Pepys’s diary became available for the first time. How it was eventually decrypted and published is a story of subterfuge and duplicity.
Kate Loveman tells the tale.
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Arthur Christopher Benson was a pillar of the Edwardian establishment. He was supremely well connected. As his newly published diaries reveal, he was also riotously indiscreet.
Piers Brendon compares Benson’s journals to others from the 20th century.
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Of the siblings Gwen and Augustus John, it is Augustus who has commanded most attention from collectors and connoisseurs.
Was he really the finer artist, asks Tanya Harrod, or is it time Gwen emerged from her brother’s shadow?
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