Renaissance
The Lion’s Silk: The Isfahan Deception
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This book, more an extended novelette than a traditional novel, tells the tale of Alessandro de’ Medici, a lesser heir to the family ...Read Review
Hiding the Flame
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Hiding the Flame is the second volume in the Women of Renaissance Florence series. It is a portal to another world, transporting us ...Read Review
The Lost Diary of Lucrezia Borgia
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Teague blends historical fiction with elements of adventure, religious mystery, and Christian inspirational fiction, framing the narrative around the discovery of a lost ...Read Review
Heart
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Heart by Jonathan Chalstrey opens in 1506 Seville, where sixteen-year-old Hernando Bustamante serves as apprentice to the curious and determined Doctor Bartolo. What begins ...Read Review
Graceless Heart
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Graceless Heart is advertised as Isabel Ibañez’s first foray into adult fiction, having previously written YA novels. I’m not sure ...Read Review
Love in the time of the Medici
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Genoa, 1602: Twelve-year-old Livia Vernazza, daughter of an ailing mattress-maker, threatens to jump out of a window rather than marry her father’s choice ...Read Review
Bianca’s Cure
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Set in late Renaissance Italy, this novel follows Bianca, the beautiful daughter of a Venetian nobleman and a healer. Forbidden by her family ...Read Review
Sinners
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Any internet inquiry into Beatrice Cenci will tell you she was repeatedly raped by her father. Whether true or not, Sinners edges around ...Read Review
The Marchesa
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On an unspecified day in the present, Isabella D’Este waits in the shadows of the Mantua Reading Room for her newest scholar ...Read Review
The Bruegel Boy
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The Bruegel Boy is an engrossing read set during the religious conflicts, the Beeldenstorm, in Flanders and Holland during the mid-1560s, and ...Read Review
