Book Lists Liked by <a href="/user/show/29063524-veronica">Veronica</a> (12 Lists)

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The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser

The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan

The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

The Lais of Marie de France by Marie de France

From Adam's Rib? -- Women in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

282 books — 138 voters

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King

The House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Italian Renaissance

298 books — 185 voters

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Othello by William Shakespeare

Death in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann

The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke

In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant

Books Set in Venice

338 books — 282 voters

The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman

The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory

The White Queen by Philippa Gregory

The Kingmaker's Daughter by Philippa Gregory

The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

Fiction Set in 15th Century

78 books — 49 voters

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory

The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett

Fiction Set in 16th Century

167 books — 74 voters

The Hostage Bride by Jane Feather

The Accidental Bride by Jane Feather

Libertine's Kiss by Judith James

Virgin Earth by Philippa Gregory

Puritan Bride by Anne O'Brien

The 17th century romance list.

25 books — 23 voters

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Shōgun by James Clavell

The Tacksman's Daughter by Donna Scott

Historical fiction 1600 - 1700

145 books — 88 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Q by Luther Blissett

The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni

Rinascimento privato by Maria Bellonci

Italian Historical Fiction

119 books — 44 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

Summer of my German Soldier by Bette Greene

Books You Didn't Know Were Movies

24 books — 18 voters

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

The Renaissance Club by Rachel Dacus

A Light of Her Own by Carrie Callaghan

Dear Theo by Vincent van Gogh

Karkhana by Waswo X. Waswo

Great books about art

214 books — 68 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell

The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman

Medieval and Renaissance historical fiction

472 books — 413 voters

Death of an Officer by Mark Ellis

City of Masks by Mary Hoffman

Da Vinci's Tiger by L.M. Elliott

Changeling by Philippa Gregory

Duchessina by Carolyn Meyer

Italy in YA & Middle Grade Historical Fiction

114 books — 50 voters