Princes of the Renaissance

Exceptionally sumptuous… This vivid history brings to life the vices and virtues of the feuding ruling families of Italy’ – Michael Prodger, The Times
Full of treasures to be uncovered… A glittering, at times rather gory, world that is different and yet dreamily familiar to our own’ * BBC History Revealed *
Dense politics relieved by dazzling art * Kirkus *
An accessible and entertaining introduction to a groundbreaking period in world and art history * Publishers Weekly *
A significant addition to Renaissance studies, and a delicious deep dive for those fascinated by the era * Foreword Reviews *
[A] sweeping tour of Renaissance century Italy… Princes of the Renaissance [is] a celebration of this fascinating moment in Italian history that is both beautifully designed and bursting with incredible colour images’ * Travels Through Time Podcast *
This beautifully illustrated history tries to make sense of the many rulers and governing dynasties of Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries, a squabbling, treacherous bunch who through their patronage and hunger for grandeur powered the artistic efflorescence of the Renaissance * The Times *
A head-scrambling epoch that Mary Hollingsworth, the author of books on the Medici and the Borgias, has done wonders to make comprehensible * The Times *

Mary Hollingsworth is a scholar of the Italian Renaissance and the author of The Medici, which was widely praised on its publication by Head of Zeus in 2017, and Princes of the Renaissance, published in 2021. Her other books include The Cardinal’s Hat, The Borgias: History’s Most Notorious Dynasty and Patronage in Renaissance Italy: From 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Century.

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