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The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Women in Culture & Society) by Margaret Rosenthal Publisher Comments The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onestathe honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered wit... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Oxford Paperbacks) by Michael Baxandall Publisher Comments Serving as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of pictures in a given historical period, this new edition to Baxandall's pre-eminent scholarly volume examines early... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Venetian Affair: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century by Andrea Di Robilant Publisher Comments In the waning days of Venice’s glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the city’s oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Murder of a Medici Princess by Caroline P. Murphy Publisher Comments In Murder of a Medici Princess, Caroline Murphy illuminates the brilliant life and tragic death of Isabella de Medici, one of the brightest stars in the dazzling world of Renaissance Italy, the daughter of Duke Cosimo I, ruler of Florence and Tuscany... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy by Sarah Bradford Publisher Comments The very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissanceincest, political assassination, papal sexual abuse, poisonous intrigue, unscrupulous power grabs. Yet, as bestselling biographer Sarah Bradford... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 by Christopher Hibbert Publisher Comments The first major biography of the Borgias in thirty years, Christopher Hibbert's latest history brings the family and the world they lived inthe glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissanceto life. The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism,... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Renaissance Florence by Gene Brucker Publisher Comments In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the city of Florence experienced the most creative period in her entire history. This book is an in-depth analysis of that dynamic community, focusing primarily on the years 1380-1450 in an examination of the... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King Staff Pick Of the many transformations that architecture has undergone throughout history, none is more important to the Renaissance than Filippo Brunelleschi's dome design for the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence. Few books have introduced Renaissance... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici by Miles J Unger Publisher Comments Magnifico is a vividly colorful portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici, the uncrowned ruler of Florence during its golden age. A true "Renaissance man," Lorenzo dazzled contemporaries with his prodigious talents and magnetic personality. Known to history as Il... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $11.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily by Nancy Goldstone Publisher Comments The riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial--and a reign as triumphant as any in the Middle A ges. On March 15, 1348, Joanna I, Queen of Naples, stood trial for her life before the Pope and his court in Avignon. She was... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Scourge & Fire Savonarola & Renaiss by Lauro Martines Publisher Comments A riveting new book about Savonarola, a lowly friar of Renaissance Florence, but also a charismatic preacher and the talk of all Italy in the 1490s when he called for the renewal of a corrupt Church and the purging of vile governments. From the Hardcover... (read more) Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin Publisher Comments ”It is in Venice, and in Venice only, that effectual blows can be struck at this pestilent art of the Renaissance. Destroy its claims to admiration there, and it can assert them nowhere else.” This was Ruskin’s war cry as he entered the... (read more) Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded by Marcello Simonetta Publisher Comments A brutal murder, a nefarious plot, a coded letter. After five hundred years, the most notorious mystery of the Renaissance is finally solved. The Italian Renaissance is remembered as much for intrigue as it is for art, with papal politics and infighting... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.42 New - Hardcover
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Lucrezia Borgia by Maria Bellonci Publisher Comments Although she was a daughter of Pope Alexander VI and chiefly remembered as a raven-haired poisoner, Bellonci depicts a passionate woman moving uncertainly through the Papal court and the intrigues, ambitions and political chicanery that swirled about her.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici by Miles J. Unger Publisher Comments Magnifico is a vividly colorful portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici, the uncrowned ruler of Florence during its golden age. A true "Renaissance man," Lorenzo dazzled contemporaries with his prodigious talents and magnetic personality. Known to history as Il... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Stones of Florence (02 Edition) by Mccarthy Publisher Comments This is a unique tribute to Florence, combining history, artistic description, and social observation. A memorable portrait of the Florentine spirit and of those figures who exemplify this spirit, such as Dante, Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, Donatello, and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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I Tatti Renaissance Library #28: Pietro Bembo: History of Venice Volume I: Books I-IV by Pietro Bembo Publisher Comments Pietro Bembo (1470 — 1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was the most celebrated Latin stylist of his day and was widely admired for his writings in Italian as well. His early dialogue on the subject of love... (read more) Your price: $29.25 New - Hardcover
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The Italian Renaissance by J H Plumb Publisher Comments A definitive overview of Renaissance-era Italy.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Il Gigante: Michelangelo, Florence, and the David 1492-1504 by Anton Gill Publisher Comments British Praise for Il Gigante: "There is certainly nothing rushed about this excellent account of the world's greatest sculptor... Through Gill's sensitive and accessible reading of the David in particular we can perhaps feel a little closer to... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Amalia's Tale: A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice by David I Kertzer Publisher Comments This quintessential David-and-Goliath saga tells the story of a wholly unexpected triumph of the poor against the rich and of a crusading city attorney who fought on behalf of an impoverished peasant. Amalia Bagnacavalli, an illiterate young peasant from... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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