Renaissance
Marvelous
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Before the much-loved tale of Beauty and the Beast came the actual life of Petrus Gonsalvus, who was brought from the Canary Islands ...Read Review
From the Drop of Heaven: Legends, Prejudice, and Revenge
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Based on historical figures and events in northeastern France, this novel takes place from 1572 to 1622. Catherine Cathillon is a peasant girl whose family ...Read Review
The Virgins of Venice
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Venice in 1509 is an opulent dream of a city in many ways, but a nightmare for daughters of the patrician class. Justina Soranzo ...Read Review
The Marriage Portrait
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Maggie O’Farrell follows her award-winning Hamnet with another touching tragedy of a young life cut short. Lucrezia de’ Medici is 15 when, upon ...Read Review
The Heretic’s Daughter (Isaac Alvarez Mysteries Book 2)
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In the years following the Reconquista, Andalusía is a difficult place to live for conversos like Isaac Alvarez and his blended family, ...Read Review
The Importance of Sons: Chronicles of the House of Valois
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The Importance of Sons focuses on Duchess Anne of Brittany and Countess Louise d’Angoulême, and their open rivalry over who would ...Read Review
The Gallery of Beauties: A Venice Beauties Mystery
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This debut mystery set in Renaissance Venice is a delight to read, especially for those who have visited the city. The Rialto, the ...Read Review
The Hearts of All on Fire
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Florence, 1473. Guid’Antonio Vespucci, Doctor of Law, is already preparing for a case when a guest at his home for a festival dies ...Read Review
The Colour Storm (UK) / The Color Storm (US/Can)
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It is 1510, the height of the Venetian Renaissance. Giorgione Barbarelli—known as Zorzo—is a young painter, fired by ambition but on the ...Read Review
Carnival of Ash
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Sometime in the Renaissance era, Cadenza is a fictional city located in Italy, near enough to Venice for the inhabitants to be under ...Read Review