The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici

6 best books like The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici (Elizabeth Lev): Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia, After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England, The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped, The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519

Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I

Author

Tracy Borman

Around the year 1049, William, Duke of Normandy and future conqueror of England, raced to the palace of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders. The count’s eldest daughter, Matilda, had refused William’s offer of marriage and publicly denounced him as a bastard. Encountering the young woman, William...

Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

Author

Jon Meacham

From Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham comes a sweeping yet intimate biography of George H. W. Bush. Based on rigorous research, hours of private interviews, and extraordinary access to Bush’s diaries and to his family, Destiny and Power paints a vivid and...

Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

Author	Michael Korda
ISBN	0061712612

T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935) first won fame for his writings and his participation in the British-sponsored Arab Revolt of WWI, but the adventurer known even in his day as "Lawrence of Arabia" is remembered today mostly as the subject of the 1962 film masterpiece based on his life. This splendid page-turner...

After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England

Author	Leanda de Lisle
ISBN	0345450469

# Runner Up, Saltire First Book of the Year Award
A brilliant history of the succession of James I of England, and the shifting power and lethal politics that brought him to the throne.In the dawn of the 17th-century when Mary Queen of Scots was dead and Elizabeth I grown old, the eyes of the English...

The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped

Author	Paul Strathern
ISBN	0553807528

Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolo 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...

The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519

Author	Christopher Hibbert
ISBN	0151010331

The first major biography of the Borgias in thirty years, Christopher Hibbert's latest history brings the family and the world they lived in—the glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissance—to life.The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance...