Lauro Martines

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1. Lauro Martines

   Author of April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici, Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence, Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy

2. Christopher Hibbert

   Author of The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall, Rome: The Biography of a City, The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519

3. Henry Kamen

   Author of Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763, Philip of Spain

4. Gene A. Brucker

   Author of Renaissance Florence, Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence

5. John Julius Norwich

   Author of A Short History of Byzantium, A History of Venice, Byzantium: The Decline and Fall

6. Steven Runciman

   Author of A History of the Crusades, Volume I : The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century (Canto)

7. Marc Bloch

   Author of Feudal Society, Volume 1: The Growth of Ties of Dependence, Feudal Society, Volume 2: Social Classes and Political Organization

8. Caroline P. Murphy

   Author of Isabella de' Medici: The Glorious Life and Tragic End of a Renaissance Princess, The Pope's Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere

9. Ross King

   Author of Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture, Michelangelo & The Pope's Ceiling

10. Henri Pirenne

    Author of Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade, Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe

11. Fernand Braudel

    Author of The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol. 1, The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15Th-18th Century, Vol. 3

12. Frances Stonor Saunders

    Author of Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman

13. Alison Weir

    Author of Lancaster and York: The Wars of the Roses, Queen Isabella

14. Richard C. Trexler

    Author of Public Life in Renaissance Florence (Cornell Paperbacks)

15. Iris Origo

    Author of The merchant of Prato: Francesco Di Marco Datini

16. John Rigby Hale

    Author of Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance

17. Johan Huizinga

    Author of The Autumn of the Middle Ages

18. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

    Author of Carnival in Romans

19. Garrett Mattingly

    Author of Renaissance Diplomacy

20. Hans Baron

    Author of Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance