The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519
6 best books like The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 (Christopher Hibbert): Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture, The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici, April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici, Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe, The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped, Empire of Lies
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
| Author | Ross King |
| ISBN | 0142000159 |
Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance man bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder. Not a master mason or carpenter, Filippo Brunelleschi was a goldsmith and clock maker. Over twenty-eight years, he would dedicate himself to solving puzzles...
| Author | Elizabeth Lev |
| ISBN | 0151012997 |
The astonishing life of a long-misunderstood Renaissance virago.Wife, mother, leader, warrior. Caterina Riario Sforza was one of the most prominent women in Renaissance Italy—and one of the most vilified. In this glittering biography, Elizabeth Lev reexamines her extraordinary life and accomplishments.Raised...
One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing narrative opens up an entire culture, revealing the dark side of Renaissance man and politician Lorenzo de' Medici.
On a Sunday...
Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
| Author | Nancy Goldstone |
| ISBN | 0670038431 |
Set against the backdrop of the turbulent thirteenth century, a time of chivalry and crusades, poetry, knights, and monarchs comes the story of the four beautiful daughters of the count of Provence whose brilliant marriages made them the queens of France, England, Germany, and Sicily.
From...
| 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...
| Author | Raymond Khoury |
| ISBN | 1250210968 |
A sweeping thriller in the tradition of The Man in the High Castle, Fatherland and Underground Airlines from New York Times bestselling author Raymond Khoury.
"The best what-if thriller for a long, long time -- makes you think, makes you sweat, and makes you choose, between what...
