 | April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici by Lauro Martines
Buy used from: $0.50 The Medici avenged themselves on the plotters. They also bankrolled many geniuses of the Renaissance, and grabbed the Papal throne a few times.
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 | Pietro Perugino by Rizzoli
Buy used from: $11.09 Beautiful volume. The NY Times wrote, "seldom has a more important exhibit appeared in a less important place." It also badmouthed GR's role in the da Vinci horse project. [ppbk: 0942159209]
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 | Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance by Anthony Grafton
Buy used from: $7.48 One of two recent titles on a less than household name.
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 | On the Art of Building in Ten Books by Leon Battista Alberti
Buy new: $29.68 / Used from: $25.90 The other one.
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 | Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King
Buy used from: $2.87 More than a story of the Dome, it brings alive the struggles of that time and place.
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 | MICHELANGELO AND THE POPE'S CEILING by ROSS KING
Buy used from: $7.19 Same author, slightly later time, better known artist.
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![The Agony and the Ecstasy [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HJGAQT09L._SL75_.jpg) | The Agony and the Ecstasy [VHS]
Buy used from: $2.71 A fine movie, one of Heston's best performances, and not too far out from the historical standpoint.
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![Biography - Michelangelo [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TKZW91HVL._SL75_.jpg) | Biography - Michelangelo [VHS]
Buy used from: $2.95 His life puts into perspective the achievements of modern artists. My favorite Biography program.
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![A&E Biography - Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Master [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5118CHAA6SL._SL75_.jpg) | A&E Biography - Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Master [VHS]
Buy used from: $4.94 A failure in many things, completed very little, but a scientific and artistic revolutionary.
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 | Fortune Is a River : Leonardo Da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History by Roger D. Masters
Buy used from: $0.26 Two biographies in one. Fascinates from cover to cover. Should be on A&E!
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 | The City Of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo by Jacob D'Ancona
Buy new: $21.86 / Used from: $1.02 The account of Jacob D'Ancona is (unlike Marco Polo's) undisputed.
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 | Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng by Xin Xu
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $11.02 Their synagogue burned 300 years ago, but their ethnicity is still so indicated on their id papers.
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 | Ancestors: The Loving Family in Old Europe by Steven Ozment
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $1.81 Blows apart the myths, including the myth that we know nothing about it. [hardcover: 0674004833]
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 | Those Terrible Middle Ages: Debunking the Myths by Regine Pernoud
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $7.95 More myth demolition.
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 | In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman F. Cantor
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 First saw some of this claimed in James Burke's BBC video series.
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 | Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
Buy used from: $0.01 see also http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/Spring03/Antikythera.html
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 | The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World by Ken Alder
Buy used from: $2.95 So, what was wrong with barleycorns?
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 | The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Everest was Named by John Keay
Buy used from: $2.99 Another thing that seems like it has always been around. Boy, did I have a time finding this book, unable to remember its title...
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 | Great Hedge of India: The Search for the Living Barrier That Divided a People by Roy Moxham
Buy new: $18.70 / Used from: $0.93 Don't even ask how big the lawn was...
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 | The Great Hedge of India: The Search for the Living Barrier that Divided a People by Roy Moxham
Buy used from: $0.30 Paperback
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 | Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History by Giles Milton
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 At least nutmeg has an aroma, unlike the tulip...
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 | The Scents of Eden: A History of the Spice Trade by Charles Corn
Buy new: $12.48 / Used from: $2.80 Wouldn't you hate to work on a book for years, on some forlorn forgotten topic, and find another title on the same thing?
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 | The Far-Farers: A Journey from Viking Iceland to Crusader Jerusalem by Victoria Clark
Buy new: $28.00 / Used from: $0.67 the author retraces the route (more or less) of a 10th century Christian convert and proselyte.
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![A&E Biography - William Shakespeare: Life of Drama (1996) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01HHRDZKG9L._SL75_.jpg) | A&E Biography - William Shakespeare: Life of Drama (1996) [VHS]
Buy used from: $2.44 Redefined the language and theater in a relatively short life and career.
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 | King Arthur: The True Story by Graham Phillips
Buy used from: $1.85 Graham Phillips hit this one out of the park. If there is a literal solution to the mystery, this is it.
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