Renaissance
The Phoenix of Florence
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The author returns to Renaissance Italy with The Phoenix of Florence. Onorio Celavini, a commander in the Medici’s feared policy force, investigates ...Read Review
Mira’s Way (The Miramonde Series)
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Mira’s Way, though one of a series, is a stand-alone story that grips from start to finish. It tells the dual tales ...Read Review
Love That Moves the Sun: Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo Buonarroti
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A Renaissance woman, wife, mother, poet, diplomat, spiritual reformist, and lover – all labels for Vittoria Colonna that omit the essence of this unique ...Read Review
A Brightness Long Ago
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Guy Gavriel Kay is the master at writing fantasy that is richly based in a particular historical time and place, and, at the ...Read Review
The Inquisitor’s Niece
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Alonso Malki is a convert to Christianity whose father has been condemned by the Inquisition for relapsing into Judaism. Fearful that his father’...Read Review
Katharina: Deliverance
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This is an engrossing tale about the life of Katharina von Bora, the wife of Martin Luther, the controversial priest who defied the ...Read Review
The Chef’s Secret
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Renaissance Italy, 1577. Bartolomeo Scappi has died. The famed chef of several popes and orchestrator of the most lavish banquets known to Rome, Scappi ...Read Review
Lady in Ermine: The Story of a Woman Who Painted the Renaissance
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What reader could not fall in love with a heroine—a female Renaissance painter, no less—as she strives to preserve the artistic ...Read Review
The Flames of Florence
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As the 15th century draws to a close in Florence, danger lurks around every corner. Donna Russo Morin’s deft strokes illustrate the ...Read Review
Against the Inquisition
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Against the Inquisition is the 2018 English translation of the 1991 Argentine novel La Geste del Marrano. Widely praised by Argentine readers and reviewers, the ...Read Review