Renaissance
I, Caravaggio
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Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610), known by his birthplace, Caravaggio, was a towering figure in Baroque painting, known for intense, sometimes grotesque psychological realism and ...Read Review
The Maiden of Florence
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From the opening, harrowing pages to the final quiet and amazingly satisfying ending, this is a magnificent historical novel. The Maiden of Florence ...Read Review
The Pomegranate Gate (The Mirror Realm Cycle)
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In The Pomegranate Gate, Kaplan builds two parallel worlds. One is based on Inquisition-era Spain. The other, the realm of the semi-immortal Maziks, ...Read Review
How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity
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Jill Burke is a historian of the body and its visual representation, also noted for her Royal-Society funded project, ‘Renaissance Goo’, to remake ...Read Review
Disobedient
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Rome, 1599: six-year-old Artemisia Gentileschi is hoisted onto the shoulders of the painter Caravaggio in order to witness the public beheading of Beatrice Cenci. ...Read Review
Dulcinea
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15th-16th century Spain. Dolça Llull Prat, the young, artistic daughter of a Barcelona aristocrat, lives a carefree life of luxury until ...Read Review
Ritual of Fire (Cesare Aldo series, 3)
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This is the third book to feature Cesare Aldo, an officer of Florence’s criminal court. As the title suggests, heat is at ...Read Review
The Queen’s Scribe (Sea and Stone Chronicles)
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When Estelle, daughter of the Grand Master Jacques de Milly’s falconer in Rhodes, arrives at the Cyprus royal court in summer 1457, she ...Read Review
Margaret of Austria
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History, as most of us know it and are taught it, is filled with the names of kings and emperors. Few women make ...Read Review
Three Fires
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This short, vibrant novella from acclaimed Scottish author Denise Mina immerses the reader in the life of Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican priest. In ...Read Review
