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Primary sources

Leon Battista Alberti
On Painting [Della Pittura]; trans John R. Spencer. (pb) £3.50

Kenneth R. Bartlett, ed.
The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance: A Sourcebook. (pb) £6.50

Alan Boase, ed.
The Poetry of France, Volume I, 1400-1600: an anthology. (hb) £7.00

Gene Brucker, ed.
Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence: The Diaries of Buonaccorso Pitti & Gregorio Dati. (pb) £6.00

Marsilio Ficino
Platonic Theology: Volume 5, Books XV-XVI; ed. James Hankins & William Bowen; tr. Michael J. B. Allen. (hb) £11.00

Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Ambrogio Lorenzetti [Il Buongoverno]; Enzo Carli, intro. (loose bound) £10.00

Piccolomini (Pius II)
Secret Memoirs of a Renaissance Pope: The Commentaries of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, Pius II; an abridgment; trans. Florence A. Gragg, ed. Leona C. Gabel. (hb, Folio Soc.) £15.00

David Rowland, trans.
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de Sus Fortunas y Adversidades). (pb) £4.00

Giorgio Vasari
Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti. (hb, Folio Soc.) £6.00
Lives of the Artists: A Selection; tr. George Bull. (hb, Folio Soc.) £35.00 for 3‑vol set

Reference

[Auction catalogue].
The Michel Wittock Collection, Part 1: Important Renaissance Bookbindings. Wednesday 7 July 2004. (pb) £15.00

Martin Davies
The Early Netherlandish School; 3rd edn. (pb) £5.00

Frank N. Magill, ed.
Dictionary of World Biography: Volume 3, The Renaissance. (hb) £25.00

Paul Joannides
Michelangelo and his Influence: Drawings from Windsor Castle. (pb) £20.00

David Rundle, gen. ed.
The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. (pb) £6.00

Magnolia Scudieri
Museum of San Marco: The Official Guide. (pb) £2.50

Secondary sources

[Journal].
Medievalia et Humanistica, New Series, no. 15 (1987): The Early Renaissance. (hb) £11.00

[No author].
The Renaissance: Six Essays. (pb) £4.50

[No author].
Society and History in the Renaissance: A Report of a Conference Held at the Folger Library on April 23 and 24, 1960. (pb) £5.00

Franco Ambrosio, rev
The Brancacci Chapel. (pb) £8.50

Bernhard Berenson
The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance, with an index to their works; 2nd edn. (hb) £8.00

Hugh Bicheno
Vendetta: High Art and Low Cunning at the Birth of the Renaissance. (pb) £6.50

Jacob Burckhardt
Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien: ein Versuch. (hb) £6.00

Peter Burke
The Renaissance. (pb) £4.00

Charles H. Carter, ed.
From the Renaissance to the Counter-Reformation: Essays in honour of Garrett Mattingly. (hb) £6.00

E. R. Chamberlin
The World of the Italian Renaissance. (hb) £6.00

Bruce Cole
The Renaissance Artist at Work, from Pisano to Titian. (hb) £9.00

Elizabeth Currie
Inside the Renaissance House. (hb) £6.00

Georges Dumézil
The Riddle of Nostradamus: A Critical Dialogue. (hb) £15.00

Richard Fremantle
Florentine Painting in the Uffizi: An Introduction to the Historical Background. (pb) £5.00

Anton Gill
Il Gigante: Michelangelo, Florence and the David, 1492-1504. (hb) £6.00
Il Gigante: Michelangelo, Florence and the David, 1492-1504. (hb, slightly shop soiled) £6.00

Ferdinand Gregorovius
Lucrezia Borgia, The Daughter of Pope Alexander VI: A Chapter from the Morals of the Italian Renaissance. (hb) £6.00

John Hale
Renaissance Exploration. (pb) £5.00

Denys Hay
(w/ John Law): Italy in the Age of the Renaissance, 1380-1530. (hb) £25.00
(ed.): New Cambridge Modern History: 1, The Renaissance 1493-1520. (pb) £9.00

Vernon Lee
Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediæval in the Renaissance. (hb) £9.50

Michael Levey
Early Renaissance. (hb) £3.50

J. Basil Oldham
The Renaissance. (hb) £4.50

Walter Pater
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry; 6th edn. (hb) £6.00

Mark Phillips
The Memoir of Marco Parenti: A Life in Medici Florence. (hb) £8.00

J. H. Plumb, and others
The Penguin Book of the Renaissance. (pb) £1.50

George Pottinger
The Court of the Medici. (hb) £6.00

Ingrid D. Rowland
From Heaven to Arcadia: The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance. (hb) £9.00

Stanley Sadie, gen. ed.
The New Grove High Renaissance Masters: Josquin, Palestrina, Lassus, Byrd, Victoria. (pb) £6.00

Edith Sichel
The Renaissance. (hb) £5.00

John Stephens
The Italian Renaissance: The Origins of Intellectual and Artistic Change before the Reformation. (pb) £6.00

Roy Strong
Art and Power: Renaissance Festivals 1450-1650. (pb) £10.00

Walter Ullmann
Medieval Foundations of Renaissance Humanism. (hb) £10.00

Herbert M. Vaughan
Studies in the Italian Renaissance. (hb) £4.50

Paul Robert Walker
The Feud that Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World. (hb) £6.00

William H. Werkmeister, ed.
Facets of the Renaissance. (pb) £12.50

Michael White
The Pope and the Heretic: The True Story of Giordano Bruno, the man Who Dared to Defy the Inquisition. (hb, US edn.) £7.00

Clemens Zintzen
Vom Menschenbild der Renaissance. (hb) £12.50

Books & journals containing related material

[Journal].
The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, Sixth Series, vol. 10, no. 4 (Dec. 1988). (pb) £4.50

[Journal].
Past and Present: A Journal of Historical Studies., no. 52 (Aug. 1971). (pb) £2.00

Maria Bellonci
Diario di Rinascimento Privato. (pb) £5.00
Diario di Rinascimento Privato: English Version. (pb) £5.00

Anthony Bertram
Florentine Sculpture. (pb) £4.00

J. Peter Burkholder
Study and Listening Guide for A History of Western Music, and Norton Anthology of Western Music. (pb) £6.00

G. Carotti
A History of Art: vol. III. Italian Art in the Middle Ages. Art in Upper and Southern Italy. (hb) £8.00

Julia Cartwright
Mantegna and Francia. (pb) £5.00

Tobias Churton
The Gnostics. (pb) £6.00

A. G. Dickens
The Age of Humanism and Reformation: Europe in the Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. (pb) £5.00

D. Dymond
An Introduction to Medieval History. (hb) £6.00

Galienne Francastel
Italian Painting: From Byzantine to Renaissance. (hb) £20.00

George Holmes, ed.
The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe. (pb) £7.00

Ross King
Brunelleschi’s Dome: The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence. (pb) £4.50

H. G. Koenigsberger and George L. Mosse
Europe in The Sixteenth Century. (pb) £2.00

John E. Law
The Lords of Renaissance Italy: The Signori, 1250-1500. (pb) £1.50

Carol Maddison
Marcantonio Flaminio: Poet, Humanist and Reformer. (pb) £12.00

Rosalind Mitchison, ed.
Why Scottish History Matters. (pb) £5.00

David Nicholas
The Transformation of Europe 1300-1600. (pb) £12.50

Frida Schottmüller, ed.
Fra Angelico da Fiesole: Des Meisters Gemälde, zweite neubearbeitete auflage. (hb) £6.00

Alistair Smith
Renaissance Portraits. (pb) £7.00

Lewis W. Spitz, ed.
The Reformation: Material or Spiritual? (pb) £7.00

Piero Torriti, ed.
Pienza: citta’ del Rinascimento. (pb) £6.00

James M. Weiss
Humanist Biography in Renaissance Italy and Reformation Germany: Friendship and Rhetoric. (hb) £45.00

Roberto Weiss
The Dawn of Humanism in Italy. (pb) £5.00

K. J. Wilson
Incomplete Fictions: the Formation of English Renaissance Dialogue. (hb) £15.00

Charles R. Young, ed.
The Twelfth-Century Renaissance. (pb) £5.00

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