Renaissance
By Fire, By Water
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In 1492, three events would change Iberia and change the world: Isabella and Ferdinand’s reconquest of Muslim Granada, the expulsion of the Jews ...Read Review
The Secret of the Glass
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In the early 17th century, the art of glassblowing is highly respected by the Venetian government, and some of its practitioners are extremely ...Read Review
The India Road
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As a small country with a population of less than one million in the 1490s, Portugal seems to be an unlikely candidate to ...Read Review
The Devil & Maria d’Avalos
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The year is 1590; the setting rich with art, magnificent architecture, lavish costumes. Yet all is not right in Denmark… or, as it so ...Read Review
A Woman of Seville
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At noon each day, Paula Sanchez, a courtesan in the city of Seville, enters the Mercedarian convent along with the handsome Father Rastro, ...Read Review
Twilight of a Queen
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The titular queen in the fifth novel in Carroll’s 16th-century saga is Catherine de Medici, dowager queen of France, whose influence and ...Read Review
Hue and Cry
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St. Andrews, Scotland, 1579. A young lawyer, Hew Cullen, returns home from France. His welcome home is lukewarm even from his family. He finds ...Read Review
Tomato Rhapsody
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Set in 16th-century Italy, this first novel by Adam Schell is advertised as “a fable of love, lust and forbidden fruit.” In it, ...Read Review
The Sting of Justice
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Mara, the Brehon judge, attends the funeral of a local priest little expecting that his will not be the only dead body in ...Read Review
The Devil’s Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici
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Catherine de Medici is perhaps one of the most maligned women in history. It appears, however, in Kalogridis’s deft interpretation of Catherine’...Read Review