Book Review

Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance: Courtly Ladies & Courtesans. Edited by Laura Anna Stortoni. Translated by Mary Prentice Lillie. large type edition edition ed. New York: Italica Press, 2008.

Baxandall, Michael. Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style. 2

edition ed. Oxford Oxfordshire ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Bradford, Sarah. Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy. Reprint edition ed. New York: Penguin

Books, 2005. Dunant, Sarah. The Birth of Venus: A Novel. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004. Dunant, Sarah. Blood and Beauty: The Borgias; a Novel. Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014. Forcellino, Antonio. Raphael: A Passionate Life. Translated by Lucinda Byatt. 1 edition ed.: Polity, 2015. Frieda, Leonie. Catherine De Medici: Renaissance Queen of France. 2.12.2006 edition edition ed. New York: Harper

Perennial, 2006. Gayford, Martin. Michelangelo: His Epic Life. Reprint edition ed.: Penguin UK, 2017. Graham-Dixon, Andrew. Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane. 1 edition ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company,

2012. Grebe, Anja and Ross King. Vatican: All the Paintings: The Complete Collection of Old Masters, Plus More Than 300

Sculptures, Maps, Tapestries, and Other Artifacts. Slp Har/Dv edition ed. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2013.

Herman, Eleanor. Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope. Reprint

edition ed. New York: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2009. Hibbert, Christopher. The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519. 1 edition ed. Boston: Mariner Books, 2009. Hibbert, Christopher. The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall. William Morrow Paperbacks, 2012. King, Ross and Anja Grebe. Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743. Slp Har/Ma edition ed. New York: Black

Dog & Leventhal, 2015. Krondl, Michael. The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice. Reprint edition ed. New

York: Ballantine Books, 2008. Lapierre, Alexandra. Artemisia: A Novel. Translated by Liz Heron. Reprint edition ed. New York: Grove Press, 2001. Lev, Elizabeth. The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza

De' Medici. 1 edition ed. Boston: Mariner Books, 2012. Martines, Lauro. April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici. 1 edition ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford

University Press, 2004. Mormando, Franco. Bernini: His Life and His Rome. Reprint edition ed. Chicago, Ill.; Bristol: University of Chicago Press,

2013. Morrissey, Jake. The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome. Reprint edition

ed. Pymble, NSW; New York: Harper Perennial, 2006.

Murphy, Caroline P. The Pope's Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice Della Rovere. 1 edition ed. New York: Oxford

University Press, 2006. Murphy, Caroline P. Murder of a Medici Princess. 1 edition ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Panyard, Christine Sistine Chapel, The: A Biblical Tour. Reprint edition ed. New York: Paulist Press, 2013. Parks, Tim. Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence. 1 edition ed. New York: W. W.

Norton & Company, 2006. PhD, Christine Panyard. Sistine Chapel, The: A Biblical Tour. Reprint edition ed. New York: Paulist Press, 2013. Rosenthal, Margaret F. The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice. 1

edition ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Schütze, Sebastian. Caravaggio: The Complete Works. TASCHEN, 2017. Strathern, Paul. The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance. London: Pimlico, 2004. Strathern, Paul. Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City. 1 edition

ed. Place of publication not identified: Pegasus Books, 2016. Sullivan, George H. Not Built in a Day: Exploring the Architecture of Rome. New York: Da Capo Press, 2006. Thompson, E. A. Romans and Barbarians: The Decline of the Western Empire. 1 edition ed. Madison, Wis.: University of

Wisconsin Press, 2002. Unger, Miles J. Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo De' Medici. 1 edition ed. New York: Simon &

Schuster, 2008. Vasari, Giorgio. The Lives of the Artists Volume 1. Translated by George Bull. Reprint edition ed. London etc.: Penguin

Classics, 1988. Vasari, Giorgio. Lives of the Artists, Vol. 2. Edited by Peter Murray. Translated by George Bull. Reprint edition ed.

Baltimore: Penguin Classics, 1988. Vasari, Giorgio. The Lives of the Artists. Translated by Julia Conway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella. Reissue edition

ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Vreeland, Susan. The Passion of Artemisia: A Novel. First Edition edition ed. New York: Penguin Books, 2002. Walker, Paul Robert. The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World.

Reprint edition ed.: Harper Perennial, 2003.