Chronological Period/16th Century
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The Great Siege, Malta 1565: Clash of Cultures: Christian Knights Defend Western Civilization Against the Moslem Tide
$13.99 Add to cartThe indispensable account of the Ottoman Empire’s Siege of Malta from the author of Hannibal and Gibraltar.
In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was thought to be invincible- Author: Bradford, Ernle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: August 19 2014
- ISBN10: 1497637864
- Language: English
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
$19.99 Add to cartUpdated with a new foreword by Tom Hanks: acclaimed historian William Manchester A World Lit Only by Fire is a “captivating and marvelously vivid” popular history of the Middle Ages (Publishers Weekly… [more below]
- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0316545562
- Language: English
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Leonardo. the Complete Paintings and Drawings
$60.00 Add to cartUnmatched in his ingenuity, technical prowess, and curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) epitomizes the humanistic ideal of the Renaissance man: a peerless master of painting, sculpture, cartograph
- Author: Zöllner, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 11 2019
- ISBN10: 3836576252
- Language: English
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William Shakespeare Comedies
$14.99 Add to cartBring on the merriment whenever you open this collection of Shakespeare’s entertaining comedies.
The comedies of William Shakespeare–including The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s D- Series: Word Cloud Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 164517154X
- Language: English
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Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious F
$19.00 Add to cartIn this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of t… [more below]
- Author: Kritzler, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0767919521
- Language: English
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A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1587, John White and 117 men, women, and children landed off the coast of North Carolina on Roanoke Island, hoping to carve a colony from fearsome wilderness. A mere month later, facing quickly dim… [more below]
- Author: Horn, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0465024904
- Language: English
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The Mapmaker’s Daughter
$16.99 Add to cart‘Oh my word… fantastic… [The] stories intertwine so beautifully, it’s truly amazing. Such a lot of research must have to have been done but so worth it. I can’t recommend this book enough.‘ NetGal
- Author: Marchant, Clare
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 0008454388
- Language: English
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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
$16.99 Add to cart“Extraordinary. . . . It is a tribute to Starkey’s narrative drive, his puckish wit, and sharp discrimination that it doesn’t seem a page too long. . . . With each queen, Starkey offers a vivid charac
- Author: Starkey, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: May 21, 2021
- ISBN10: 0060005505
- Language: English
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Baillie Gifford Prize’s 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners award
What accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever l
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Shapiro, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0060088745
- Language: English
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Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
$20.00 Add to cartIn the bestselling tradition of Hampton Sides’s In the Kingdom of Ice, a “gripping adventure tale” (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expedition
- Author: Pitzer, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982113359
- Language: English
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Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo
$19.99 Add to cartCalled “tremendously entertaining” (The New York Times) Stephanie Storey’s brilliant bestselling debut, brings early 16th-century Florence, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo Buonarroti alive for art… [more below]
- Author: Storey, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 19 2018
- ISBN10: 1628729066
- Language: English
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When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History
$28.00 Add to cartA dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cort s that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas
On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquista
- Author: Restall, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 006242727X
- Language: English
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Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
$18.99 Read moreA stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first publishe
- Author: Mantel, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 30, 2021
- ISBN10: 0008430004
- Language: English
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Leo Africanus
$25.43 Add to cartAn imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan. He wrote the first trilingual dictionary and Description of Africa.
- Author: Maalouf, Amin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: March 25 1998
- ISBN10: 1561310220
- Language: English
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The Prince: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$17.00 Add to cartA new translation of the infamous Renaissance classic, in a striking deluxe edition
The original blueprint for realpolitik, The Prince shocked sixteenth-century Europe with its advocacy of ruthless t- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0143105868
- Language: English
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Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
$20.00 Add to cartIn this astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller, acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center … [more below]
- Author: Levy, Buddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0553384716
- Language: English
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Who Was William Shakespeare?
$6.99 Add to cartThe beloved plays of Shakespeare are still produced everywhere, yet the life of the world’s most famous playwright remains largely a mystery. Young Will left the town of Stratford to pursue theater in
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Mannis, Celeste
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 28, 2006
- ISBN10: 0448439042
- Language: English
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The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
$20.00 Add to cartIrving Stone’s classic biographical novel of Michelangelo–the #1 New York Times bestseller in which both the artist and the man are brought to vivid, captivating life.
His time–the turbulent Renais- Author: Stone, Irving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: September 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0451213238
- Language: English
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Leonardo’s Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master
$23.99 Add to cartLeonardo’s Notebooks is a biography of the genius in his own words, connecting moments of his life to artistic accomplishments through his writings, drawings, and intimate thoughts.
Leonardo da Vinci- Series: Notebook
- Author: Da Vinci, Leonardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1579129463
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
$33.00 Add to cartThis remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long be… [more below]
- Author: Targoff, Ramie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 12, 2024
- ISBN10: 0525658033
- Language: English
