Renaissance
The Tigress of Forlì: The Life of Renaissance Italy’s Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici
Caterina Sforza, born in 1463, lived a full life. The illegitimate daughter of the future Duke of Milan, she was…
The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
There was something serendipitous about reading this book in a week that modern scientists took a step closer to the…
Cross My Heart
Venice, 1585. Confined to a convent for the six years since her mother’s death, 16-year-old Laura lives for her memories…
The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth
At the dawn of the 17th century, two very different men set out to prove Copernicus’s hypothesis that the sun,…
Sister Queens
Sister Queens is the story of two daughters of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, Their Most Catholic Majesties,…
Velazquez and the Surrender of Breda: The Making of a Masterpiece
Diego Velazquez is perhaps best known for his rendering of one of the few Spanish victories during the long war…
The Courtesan’s Lover
Naples, 1564: beautiful and smart Francesca Felizzi strives to acquire wealthy patrons in her quest to become a cortigiana honesta,…
The Midwife of Venice
In this beautifully conceived debut novel, Hannah, a young Jewish midwife living in the ghetto of Venice, has her late…
The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth
The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth follows the lives of Johannes Kepler, a German Lutheran who was the first man to mathematically…
The Hand of Fatima
Editors' choice
In 1564, after years of Christian oppression, the Moors of Grenada exact a terrible revenge against their masters: after the…
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