Colin Jones

Jesters’ Paradise

Figures of the Fool: From the Middle Ages to the Romantics

July 2024 Issue

Alexander Lee

Architect, Philosopher & Horse Tamer

Leon Battista Alberti: Writer and Humanist

By Martin McLaughlin

LR

December 2023 Issue

Sarah Dunant

Naked Attraction

Earthly Delights: A History of the Renaissance

By Jonathan Jones

LR

August 2023 Issue

Sarah Dunant

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

May 2023 Issue

Lucy Wooding

Northern Lights

The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare

By Paul Strathern

LR

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

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

October 2021 Issue

James Hall

When the Saints Went Marching In

The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece: Between Icon and Narrative

By David Ekserdjian

LR

August 2021 Issue

Sarah Dunant

Prince of Publishers

The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance

By Ross King

LR

May 2021 Issue

Dmitri Levitin

A Gleam in the Eye

Visions of Heaven: Dante and the Art of Divine Light

By Martin Kemp

LR

June 2020 Issue

Bijan Omrani

Good Rule Hunting

Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy

By James Hankins

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

April 2020 Issue

John Guy

When in Florence

Machiavelli: His Life and Times

By Alexander Lee

LR

April 2020 Issue

Emma Park

Porkers & Pissheads

The Pig War

By John Placentius (Translated from Latin by Michael Fontaine)

How to Drink: A Classical Guide to the Art of Imbibing

By Vincent Obsopoeus (Translated from Latin by Michael Fontaine)

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

October 2019 Issue

Mary Hollingsworth

View from the Palazzo

Out of Italy

By Fernand Braudel

A Month in Siena

By Hisham Matar

LR

July 1990 Issue

Antonia Nashe

Disgusting but Nice

Machiavelli in Hell

By Sebastian de Grazia

LR

April 2001 Issue

Sebastian Shakespeare

Merlin of Mortlake

The Queen's Conjuror: The Science and Magic of Dr Dee

By Benjamin Woolley

LR

July 1985 Issue

A L Rowse

Irresistibly Readable

Renaissance Essays

By Hugh Trevor-Roper

LR

April 2019 Issue

Sarah Dunant

An American in Florence

House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo

By Allison Levy

LR

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