The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
By: Ross King
3.98
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings--the dazzli…
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1. The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
By: Christopher Hibbert
3.88
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
At its height, Renaissance Florence was a center of enormous wealth, power, and influence. A republ… read more
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2. Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City
By: Paul Strathern
3.92
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. … read more
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3. Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis
By: Robert M. Edsel
4.19
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
From the author of the #1 New York Timesbestseller The Monuments Men. When Hitler's armies occupied… read more
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4. House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown
By: Nathen Amin
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Wars of the Roses were a tumultous period in English history, with family fighting family for t… read more
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6. Intellectuals in the Middle Ages
By: Jacques Le Goff
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In this pioneering work Jacques Le Goff examines both the creation of the medieval universities in … read more
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7. Rampjaar 1672: hoe de Republiek aan de ondergang ontsnapte
By: Luc Panhuysen
3.41
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Het jaar 1672 staat in de Nederlandse geschiedenis gegrift als het Rampjaar. In dat jaar werd de Re… read more
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8. Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
By: Christopher de Hamel
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
'An endlessly fascinating and enjoyable book' Neil MacGregor 'Full of delights' Tom Stoppard An ext… read more
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9. Onions in the Stew (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #4)
By: Betty MacDonald
3.49
Format: 465 pages,
The bestselling author of the American humor classic The Egg and I continues the adventure with thi… read more
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10. The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
By: Paul Strathern
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, Th… read more
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11. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
By: Stephen Greenblatt
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work… read more
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12. De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen
By: Bart Van Loo
4.31
Format: 607 pages, Hardcover
Meesterverteller Bart Van Loo neemt de lezer op sleeptouw langs duizend jaar Europese geschiedenis.… read more
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13. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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14. The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case
By: Philippa Langley
3.67
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1483, Edward V (age twelve) and his brother Richard, Duke of York (age nine), disappeared from t… read more
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15. The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
By: Ross King
3.98
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings--the dazzli… read more
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16. Alfabetul bucatelor. Povestiri cu miez gustos cuprinzând rețete românești reinventate sau de la străini împrumutate
By: Vlad Macri
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Îmbinând gastronomia cu memorialistica, într-un stil spumos şi ludic, condimentat cu erudite excurs… read more
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17. Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery
By: Earl Swift
3.98
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes a gripping new wor… read more
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18. The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
By: Paul Strathern
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth… read more
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19. Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore
By: Emma Southon
4.22
Format: 285 pages, None
They said she was a tyrant. A murderer, and the most wicked woman in history. She kicked her way… read more
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20. The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters
By: Benjamin Moser
4.20
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
A Washington Post Notable Book of 2023Plunged into a strange land at twenty-five, Benjamin Moser be… read more
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21. Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
By: Joseph Luzzi
3.77
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of uneart… read more
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22. The Library: A Fragile History
By: Andrew Pettegree
3.84
Format: 518 pages, Hardcover
Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, des… read more
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"In 1748, the Earl of Chesterfield passed on some useful advice to his son: 'Buy good books and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors a…"-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History
"Mudie's insistence on the three-volume format was undoubtedly responsible for the verbosity of many nineteenth-century novels, as authors went to extraordinary efforts to pad their texts to the requi…"-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History
23. The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
By: Roland Ennos
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking examination of the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem—in… read more
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24. The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
By: Edward Wilson-Lee
3.68
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Created in 1539, the Biblioteca Colombina in Sevilla contains over 3000 books. This is but a fracti… read more
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"Vedere sì tanti libri, mi lasciò senza favella/sicchè mi dissi, "-Edward Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
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25. Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
By: Richard Ovenden
3.72
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful d… read more
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26. Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome
By: Douglas Boin
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent “barbarians” who … read more
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27. Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
By: Natalie Dykstra
4.05
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The vivid and masterful story of an American original—a formidable art collector and builder of one… read more
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28. To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace
By: Kapka Kassabova
4.10
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The celebrated author of Border explores a mysterious, ancient, and little-understood corner of Eur… read more
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"All is one. Don't let me forget this, don't let the bastards divide me again. Our tragedy is fragmentation. It begins as a state of mind and ends up as destiny. It is the tragedy of our family of nat…"-Kapka Kassabova, To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace
29. The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6)
By: Seishi Yokomizo
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain vill… read more
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30. The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna
By: Tim Parks
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy’s legendary revolutionary, was finally forced to a… read more
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31. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country
By: Juliet Nicolson
3.44
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more
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