Renaissance
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
Artemisia
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This extraordinary novel is a must read for anyone remotely interested in Baroque Italy, art, or painter Artemisia Gentileschi. I have very ...Read Review
The Stars Compel
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In this sequel to The Stars Dispose, Roessner continues her retelling of the life of Catherine de’ Medici in a story whose characters ...Read Review