Renaissance
The Painter’s Daughter
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Alessandra Lippi is the beautiful daughter of the infamous painter Fra Lippo Lippi. Her story begins in 1467, as she tells of her first ...Read Review
The Food Taster
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This work is purported to be the innovative, sassy memoir of Ugo Difonte, a food taster in 16th century Italy. Ugo, unwillingly pushed ...Read Review
Thief Of Souls
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Benson has made a name for herself juxtaposing the medieval and the modern (Plague Tales, for instance) and here, again, she proves that ...Read Review
Fire, Burn!
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France in the sixteenth century represents a turbulent struggle for power between Charles de Bourbon and Francis I. Charles desperately needs funds to ...Read Review
The Family
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The title of this novel evokes The Godfather both as a marketing device and an indication of the tone to be taken. This ...Read Review
The Day Laid on the Altar
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Three artists weave the fabric of sixteenth century Italian artistic life in Bernardi’s intriguing novel: Bartolomeo, a peasant farmer who collects shards ...Read Review
To Ruin a Queen
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Fiona Buckley draws the reader into the story with her lively and fluid first-person narration: “The journey that took me from the Châ...Read Review
Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan
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Biographical FictionEpicMilitary
This book spans a period between 1536 and 1583, and is essentially the story (very well-known there) of Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s rise from street brat ...Read Review
Bellarion The Fortunate: A Romance
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Rafael Sabatini had earned quite a name for himself as a writer of both historical novels and biographies in the first part of ...Read Review
Bianca
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Elegant paints a colorful portrait of Renaissance Venice at the height of its glory in the mid to late 16th century. Bianca, a ...Read Review