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  • The Italian City-Republics

    by Trevor Dean, Daniel Waley ...
    Now in its fifth edition, The Italian City Republics illustrates how, from the eleventh century onwards, many Italian towns achieved independence as political entities, unhindered by any centralising power. Until the fourteenth century, when the regimes of individual ‘tyrants’ took over in most towns, these communes were the scene of a precocious, and very well-documented, experiment in republican ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Later Medieval Europe

    1250-1520

    by Daniel Waley, Peter Denley ...
    From the divine right of kings to the political philosophies of writers such as Machiavelli, the medieval city-states to the unification of Spain, Daniel Waley and Peter Denley focus on the growing power of the state to illuminate changing political ideas in Europe between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. Spanning the entire continent and beyond, and using contemporary voices wherever ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • The Borgias

    The Hidden History

    by G. J. Meyer ...
    An unprecedented portrait of the Renaissance-era Borgia family and their storied milieu, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tudors“A vivid and at times startling reappraisal of one of the most notorious dynasties in history . . . If you thought you knew the Borgias, this book will surprise you.”—Tracy Borman, author of Queen of the Conqueror and Elizabeth’s Women“Fascinating . . . a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Faithful Executioner

    Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

    by Joel F. Harrington ...
    The extraordinary story of a renaissance-era executioner and his world, based on a rare and overlooked journal.In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a remarkable document: the journal of a sixteenth-century executioner. The journal gave an account of the 394 people Meister Frantz Schmidt executed, and the hundreds more he tortured, flogged, or disfigured ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard: The Causes for Their Downfalls

    The Tudor Dynasty, #3

    by Alexandria Ingham ...
    Series Book 3 - The Tudor Dynasty
    Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard were cousins, although they probably didn't know each other. They were also wives of Henry VIII and the only two to be beheaded for the same crimes - treason and adultery.The two were shrouded in a conspiracy to remove them from power for different reasons and there was one person in common - Jane Boleyn.This book is a continuation from my previous history books ... Read more

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  • The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior

    The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia—three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different, and they would meet only for a short time in 1502, but the events that transpired when they did would significantly alter each man’s perceptions—and the course of Western history.In 1502, ... Read more

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  • Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions

    by G.W. Bernard ...

    $21.99 USD

  • Fire in the City

    Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence

    by Lauro Martines ...
    A gripping and beautifully written narrative that reads like a novel, Fire in the City presents a compelling account of a key moment in the history of the Renaissance, illuminating the remarkable man who dominated the period, the charismatic Girolamo Savonarola. Lauro Martines, whose decades of scholarship have made him one of the most admired historians of Renaissance Italy, here provides a ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Professor of Secrets

    Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy

    by William Eamon ...
    In the tradition of Galileo's Daughter and Brunelleschi's Dome, this exciting story illuminates the captivating world of the late Renaissance—in this case its plagues, remedies, and alchemy—through the life of Leonardo Fioravanti, a brilliant, remarkably forward-thinking, and utterly unconventional doctor. Fioravanti's marvelous cures and talent for self-aggrandizement earned him the adoration of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Ultimate Rodrigo Borgia Collection

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Includes:•Charles River Editors original biography of Rodrigo Borgia•Arnold Mathews The Life and Times of Rodrigo Borgia , Pope Alexander VIAlexander never did what he said.Cesare never said what he did. Italian ProverbThere have been no shortage of controversial Popes who were accused by Catholics and other Christians of impropriety, but the most controversial of all was the Borgia Pope, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Empress of the East

    How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire

    by Leslie Peirce ...
    The "fascinating . . . lively" story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empire (New York Times).In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by slave traders from her Ruthenian homeland and brought to the harem of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A Short History of the Italian Renaissance

    by Kenneth R. Bartlett ...
    Award-winning lecturer Kenneth R. Bartlett applies his decades of experience teaching the Italian Renaissance to this beautifully illustrated overview. In his introductory Note to the Reader, Bartlett first explains why he chose Jacob Burckhardt's classic narrative to guide students through the complex history of the Renaissance and then provides his own contemporary interpretation of that ... Read more

    $56.99 USD