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  • Becoming Leonardo

    An Exploded View of the Life of Leonardo da Vinci

    by Mike Lankford ...
    A Wall Street Journal Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year“A truly intimate portrait of one of the greatest creators in human history,” this biography of Leonardo Da Vinci “has the pace, elegance, and authorial omnipresence of a novel,” bringing both artist and Renaissance Italy to life (Noah Charney, author of The Art of Forgery)Why did Leonardo Da Vinci leave so many of his major ... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Before Galileo

    The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe

    by John Freely ...
    A physicist and historian sheds light on scientific minds, breakthroughs, and innovations that paved the way for the Scientific Revolution.Histories of modern science often begin with the heroic battle between Galileo and the Catholic Church, a conflict which ignited the Scientific Revolution and led to the world-changing discoveries of Isaac Newton. As a consequence of this narrative frame, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Conquest of New Spain

    Translated by John Cohen ...
    Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers.Bernal Díaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a fascinatingly detailed description of the Spanish landing in Mexico in 1520 and their amazement at the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Lorenzo de Medici

    Lorenzo de' Medici was never an old man. He died in 1492 at the age of forty-three. He came to power in fifteenth-century Florence at the age of twenty. In the twenty-odd years of his rule, this banker, politician, international diplomat, free-wheeling poet and songwriter, and energetic revolutionary helped to give shape, tone, and tempo to that truly dazzling time of Western history, the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow

    by Adam Zamoyski ...
    Adam Zamoyski’s bestselling account of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European history.In 1812 the most powerful man in the world assembled the largest army in history and marched on Moscow with the intention of consolidating his dominion. But within months, Napoleon’s invasion of Russia – history’s first example of ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Ugly Renaissance

    Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty

    by Alexander Lee ...
    A fascinating and counterintuitive portrait of the sordid, hidden world behind the dazzling artwork of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, and moreRenowned as a period of cultural rebirth and artistic innovation, the Renaissance is cloaked in a unique aura of beauty and brilliance. Its very name conjures up awe-inspiring images of an age of lofty ideals in which life imitated the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology

    How Cyriacus of Ancona—merchant, spy, and amateur classicist—traveled the world, fighting to save ancient monuments for posterity.At the beginning of the fifteenth century, a young Italian bookkeeper fell under the spell of the classical past. Despite his limited education, the Greeks and Romans seemed to speak directly to him—not from books but from the physical ruins and inscriptions that lay ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • April Blood

    Florence and the Plot against the Medici

    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 in April 1478, assassins attacked Lorenzo and his brother as they attended Mass in the cathedral of Florence. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Henry VIII’s Wives: History in an Hour

    by Julie Wheeler ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.In his ambition to provide a male heir to the throne, Henry VIII married six times. Divorce from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, caused England’s break from the Catholic church in Rome. He went on to divorce Anne of Cleves and behead Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard for infidelities. Jane Seymour died and Catherine Parr survived Henry ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Cardinal's Hat

    Money, Ambition, and Everyday Life in the Court of a Borgia Prince

    “A riveting portrait of the day-to-day life of a wealthy, worldly Renaissance prince” as he pursues power and influence in the Catholic church (USA Today).The second son of Alfonso d’Este and Lucretia Borgia, the Duke and Duchess of Ferrara, Ippolito d’Este was made the archbishop of Milan at the age of nine. But from the time of his father’s death in 1534, he set his ambitions on acquiring the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Montaigne

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Will Stone ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    A brilliant and impassioned biography of one of the founding fathers of humanism, from one of its greatest defenders in the 20th centuryWritten during the Second World War, Zweig's typically passionate and readable biography of Michel de Montaigne, is also a heartfelt argument for the importance of intellectual freedom, tolerance and humanism. Zweig draws strong parallels between Montaigne's age, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Reversing Sail

    A History of the African Diaspora

    Series Book 3 - New Approaches to African History
    This 2005 book examines the global unfolding of the African Diaspora, the migrations and dispersals of the people of Africa, from antiquity to the modern period. Their exploits, challenges, and struggles are discussed over a wide expanse of time in ways that link as well as differentiate past and present circumstances. The experiences of Africans in the Old World, in the Mediterranean and Islamic ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Michelangelo

    The Artist, the Man and his Times

    In this vividly written biography, William E. Wallace offers a new view of the artist. Not only a supremely gifted sculptor, painter, architect and poet, Michelangelo was also an aristocrat who firmly believed in the ancient, noble origins of his family. The belief in his patrician status fueled his lifelong ambition to improve his family's financial situation and to raise the social standing of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Out of Italy

    Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise

    Translated by Siân Reynolds ...
    From the author of Memory and the Mediterranean, a comprehensive history of the Italian city states from 1450 to 1650.In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, “Italy” exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean. Its cultural, economic, and political ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sacred Trash

    The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza

    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    **NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALISTPart of the Jewish Encounter series**One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect several pieces of rag paper and parchment. It was the unlikely start to what would prove a remarkable, continent ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Book of the Courtier

    Translated by George Bull ...
    In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to define the essential virtues for those at Court. In a lively series of imaginary conversations between the real-life courtiers to the Duke of Urbino, his speakers discuss qualities of noble behaviour - chiefly discretion, decorum, nonchalance and gracefulness - as well as wider questions such ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Teutonic Knights

    by William Urban ...
    The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. Their history is suffused with crusading, campaigning and struggle. Feared by their enemies but respected by medieval Christendom, the knights and their Order maintained a firm hold over the Baltic and northern Germany and established a formidable regime which flourished across Central Europe for 300 years.This major new book ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anne Boleyn: Henry VIII's Obsession

    Henry VIII's Obsession

    Anne Boleyn was the most controversial and scandalous woman ever to sit on the throne of England. From her early days at the imposing Hever Castle in Kent, to the glittering courts of Paris and London, Anne caused a stir wherever she went. Alluring but not beautiful, Annes wit and poise won her numerous admirers at the English court, and caught the roving eye of King Henry.Anne was determined to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Magnifico

    The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici

    Magnifico is a vividly colorful portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici, the uncrowned ruler of Florence during its golden age. A true "Renaissance man," Lorenzo dazzled contemporaries with his prodigious talents and magnetic personality. Known to history as Il Magnifico (the Magnificent), Lorenzo was not only the foremost patron of his day but also a renowned poet, equally adept at composing philosophical ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Black History: History in an Hour

    by Rupert Colley ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Encompassing everything from immigration to civil war, emancipation, slavery and migration, Black History in an Hour gives you a neat overview of this vast and fascinating subject.This e-book is a superb introduction to the long and varied history of African Americans.Know your stuff: read about Black History in just one hour. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • Basilica

    The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's

    by R. A. Scotti ...
    In this dramatic journey through religious and artistic history, R. A. Scotti traces the defining event of a glorious epoch: the building of St. Peter's Basilica. Begun by the ferociously ambitious Pope Julius II in 1506, the endeavor would span two tumultuous centuries, challenge the greatest Renaissance masters—Michelangelo, Raphael, and Bramante—and enrage Martin Luther. By the time it was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • Anne Boleyn: The Young Queen To Be

    The Young Queen to be

    Anne Boleyn is perhaps the most engaging of Henry VIIIs Queens. For her he would divorce his wife of some twenty years standing, he would take on the might of the Roman Church and the Holy Roman Empire; he would even alienate his own people in order to win her favour and, eventually, her hand.But before Henry came into her life Anne Boleyn had already wandered down loves winding path. She had ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Shaping of Western Civilization, Volume I

    From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century

    Michael Burger's goal in this inexpensive overview is to provide a brief, historical narrative of Western civilization. Not only does its length and price separate this text from the competition, but its no-frills, uncluttered format and well-written, one-authored approach make it a valuable asset for every history student.The Shaping of Western Civilization: From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Boleyns: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Family

    The Rise & Fall of a Tudor Family

    by David Loades ...
    The fall of Anne Boleyn and her brother George is the classic drama of the Tudor era. The Boleyns had long been an influential English family. Sir Edward Boleyn had been Lord Mayor of London. His grandson, Sir Thomas had inherited wealth and position, and through the sexual adventures of his daughters, Mary and Anne, ascended to the peak of influence at court.The three Boleyn children formed a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD