Further Reading
Many of the primary sources are not, originally, in English. I have noted the translation I am using.
Apuleius. The Golden Ass. Robert Graves translation.
Ariosto, Ludovico. Orlando Furioso. Guido Waldman translation.
Benner, Erica. Be Like the Fox.
-. Machiavelli’s Prince: A New Reading.
Berlin, Isaiah. ‘The Question of Machiavelli.’
Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron.
Bradford, Sarah. Cesare Borgia: His Life and Times.
Brown, Alison. Bartolomeo Scala 1430-1497: Chancellor of Florence. The Humanist as Bureaucrat.
–. Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy.
Cavalcanti, Guido. Complete Poems. Anthony Mortimer translation.
Kleiman, Irit Ruth. Philippe de Commynes: Memory, Betrayal, Text.
Commines, Philippe de. Memoirs.
Currie, Elizabeth. Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence
DeGrazia, Sebastian. Machiavelli in Hell.
Gleeson-White, Jane. Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance.
Guicciardini, Francesco. History of Italy.
Hankir, Zahra. Eyeliner: A Cultural History.
Hibbert, Christopher. Rise and Fall of the House of Medici.
Herren, Judith. Ravenna.
Isaacson, Walter. Leonardo da Vinci.
Jones, Ben. Apocalypse Without God.
Jones, Rosemary Devonshire. Francesco Vettori: Florentine Citizen and Medici Servant.
Kidwell, Carol. Marullus.
King, Ross. The Bookseller of Florence.
–. Brunelleschi’s Dome.
Lee, Alexander. The Dirty Renaissance.
Livy. The Early History of Rome. Penguin Classics translation by Aubrey de Selincourt. (1960)
Lowe, K.J.P. Church and Politics in Renaissance Italy: The Life and Career of Cardinal Francesco Soderini.
Lucretius. De Rerum Natura. Penguin Classics translation by A.E. Stallings. (2007)
Machiavelli, Niccolò. Tutte le Opere: Storiche, politiche, e Letterarie.
–. The Chief Works and Others. Ed., trans. by Allan Gilbert in three volumes.
Maddocks, Fiona. Hildegard of Bingen.
Martines, Lauro. Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence.
– Power and Imagination.
Martino, Maestro. The Art of Cooking. Translation by Jeremy Parzen.
Marullus, Michael. Poems. Translation by Charles Fantazzi.
Najemy, John. A History of Florence.
– Machiavelli’s Broken World.
– Between Friends.
– The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli (ed.).
O’Malley, Michelle and Evelyn Welch (eds.). The Material Renaissance (Studies in Design)
Ovid, Metamorphoses. Ted Hughes translations in “Tales from Ovid.”
Palmer, Ada. Inventing the Renaissance.
Petrarca, Francesco. “How a Ruler Ought to Govern His State.” Translation by Benjamin G. Kohl.
Ridolfi, Roberto. The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli. Translation by Cecil Grayson.
Slattery, Luke. ‘A Renaissance Murder Mystery.’
Skinner, Quentin, et al, eds. Machiavelli and Republicanism.
Strathern, Paul. Death in Florence.
–. The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior.
–. The Florentines.
Terrence. The Girl from Andros.
Terry-Fritsch, Allie, “Florentine Convent as Practiced Place: Cosimo de’Medici, Fra Angelico, and the Public Library of San Marco”
Villari, Pasquale. The Life and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli.Weinstein, Donald. Savonarola: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet.