Renaissance
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Michelangelo
$20.00 Add to cartItalian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His manifold achievements in painting, sculpture, architect
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Néret, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3836530341
- Language: English
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Yellow: The History of a Color
$39.95 Read moreFrom the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the present
In this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau–a renowned authority on the history of- Author: Pastoureau, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 26 2019
- ISBN10: 069119825X
- Language: English
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Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta: A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Hoefnagel
$85.00 Add to cartNow back in print, “the ultimate booklover’s gift book”—Los Angeles Times
In 1561-62 the master calligrapher Georg Bocskay (died 1575), imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, crea- Author: Hendrix, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1606066587
- Language: English
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
$16.00 Add to cartBartolom? de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus’s voyages, Las Casas was so horrified… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Las Casas, Bartolom? de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0140445625
- Language: English
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Saint-Seducing Gold (the Forge & Fracture Saga, Book 2): Volume 2
$19.99 Add to cartSaint-Seducing Gold is the second book in Brittany N. Williams’s stunning YA historical fantasy trilogy–the Forge & Fracture Saga–that New York Times bestselling author Ayana Gray called “nothing sh… [more below]
- Series: The Forge & Fracture Saga
- Author: Williams, Brittany N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1419758667
- Language: English
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Discourse on Voluntary Servitude: Why People Enslave Themselves to Authority
$11.95 Add to cartWhile short in words, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude speaks volumes to all those who value liberty on all levels, but who are currently trapped in the yoke of oppression by the many tyrants in every
- Author: De La Boetie, Etienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: December 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1944855017
- Language: English
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Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini
$28.95 Read moreReunites two masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance after more than four centuries apart.
The Three Philosophers by Giorgione (Italian, 1477-1510) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and St. Fr
- Author: Salomon, Xavier F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 191387544X
- Language: English
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The Virgins of Venice
$19.99 Read moreIn sixteenth-century Venice, one young noblewoman dares to resist the choices made for her
Venice in 1509 is on the brink of war. The displeasure of Pope Julius II is a continuing threat to the republi
- Author: Buonaguro, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1443468398
- Language: English
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The King’s Anatomist: The Journey of Andreas Vesalius
$17.95 Add to cart5-star Goodreads Reviews for The King’s Anatomist
★★★★★ “This is a well-conceived novel with an interesting narrative approach that is surprisingly successful. Switching b
- Author: Blumenfeld, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 173295089X
- Language: English
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Musick for the King: A Historical Novel
$16.99 Add to cartStaring debtor’s prison in the eye, George Frederik Handel is depressed and suffering from various illnesses. Faced with crushing verbal, intellectual, financial, and even physical opposition, he can
- Author: Doyle, Barrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1486619797
- Language: English
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Solomon’s Gold: an immersive Elizabethan murder mystery
$17.99 Add to cartMEET DR WILLIAM GILBERT IN THIS ENTHRALLING ELIZABETHAN HISTORICAL MYSTERY.
16th Century England.
Dr William Gilbert enjoys the company of one of his more accomplished patients, a Jewish-born Christian
- Series: The Doctor William Gilbert Mysteries #3
- Author: Tourney, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1839015616
- Language: English
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All about Love
$8.99 Add to cartAlasdair Cynster known to his intimates as Lucifer decides to rusticate in the country before the matchmaking skills of London′s mamas become firmly focused on him, the last unwed Cynster. But a
- Series: Cynster Novels #6
- Author: Laurens, Stephanie
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0380812010
- Language: English
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The Galileo Gambit
$19.99 Add to cartFather Michael Dominic, prefect of the Vatican Secret Archive in Rome, is entrusted with the mission of transporting the original 17th-century trial documents of Galileo to Loyola Law School in Chicag
- Author: McAvoy, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1954123337
- Language: English
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The Botticelli Secret: A Novel of Renaissance Italy
$36.00 Add to cartIn this exhilarating cross between The Da Vinci Code and The Birth of Venus, an irrepressible young woman in 15th-century Italy must flee for her life after stumbling upon a deadly secret when she ser
- Series: Reading Group Gold
- Author: Fiorato, Marina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0312606362
- Language: English
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Juana, La Mujer Que Fue Papa
$24.95 Add to cartDurante siglos la iglesia ha negado su existencia.
La novela sobre la mujer que se sentó en el trono papal
Siglo IX, Maguncia. Hija de un predicador que llegó a Sajonia para esparcir la palabra de Dio
- Author: Ortega Blake, Arturo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 6070796063
- Language: Spanish
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The Last Jew: A Novel of the Spanish Inquisition
$19.99 Add to cartIn the year 1492, the Inquisition has all of Spain in its grip. After centuries of pogrom-like riots encouraged by the Church, the Jews – who have been an important part of Spanish life since the days
- Author: Gordon, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0312300530
- Language: English
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The Crimson Petal and the White
$18.99 Add to cartA teenage prostitute ascends through the many layers of Victorian London society in this highly acclaimed “big, sexy, bravura novel” (New York Times).
London, 1870s. At the heart of this panoramic narr… [more below]
- Author: Faber, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0156028778
- Language: English
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The Diary of Carlo Cipriani
$17.95 Add to cartFor readers who’ve always wanted a story of how the Original Spanish horses could’ve arrived in Corolla, North Carolina, and for fans of Dances with Wolves and Castaway, The Diary of Carlo Cipriani i
- Author: Sanders, J. Willis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: July 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1954763107
- Language: English
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The Disciple
$12.50 Add to cartAdrien Sixte is a reclusive intellectual known for his theories on psychological materialism. Sixte’s orderly, self-enclosed world is violently interrupted when a desperate mother petitions his help a
- Author: Bourget, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: July 08 2021
- ISBN10: 195131915X
- Language: English
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A Crowning Mercy
$16.99 Add to cart“If you love historical drama…then look no further.”
—Boston GlobeBernard Cornwell, the perennial New York Times bestselling author of the Richard Sharpe series and “perhaps the greatest writer of
- Author: Cornwell, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0061724386
- Language: English
