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Botticelli, Sandro

Angelis, Rita de. Botticelli: The Complete Paintings. London: Granada, 1980. Translated by Jane Carroll.

Ettlinger, Leopold D, and Ettlinger, Helen S. Botticelli. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976.

Horne, Herbert P. Botticelli: Painter of Florence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980.

Levey, Michael, ed. The Complete Paintings of Botticelli. London: Weidenfed &Nicolson, 1970.

Lightbown, Ronald. Sandro Botticelli: Life and Work. London: Thames and Hudson, New ed., 1989.

Salvini, Roberto. All the Paintings of Botticelli. London: Oldbourne, 1965. Translated by John Grillenzoni.

Santi, Bruno. Botticelli. London: Constable &Co. Ltd., 1991.

Copernicus, Nicolaus

Adamczewski, Jan. Nicolaus Copernicus and his Epoch. Warsaw: Interpress Publishers, 1972.

Armitage, Angus. Copernicus: The Founder of Modern Astronomy. London: Allen &Unwin, 1938.

Copernicus, Nicolaus. Complete Works. London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1972-1985. Edited by Pawel Czartoryski. Translated by Zygmunt Nierada and Erna Hilfstein.

Copernicus, Nicolaus. Copernicus, on the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1976. A new translation from the Latin, with an introduction and notes by A. M. Duncan.

Hoyle, Fred. Nicolaus Copernicus: An Essay on his Life and Work. London: Heinemann, 1973.

Johnson, Francis R. Astronomical Thought in Renaissance England. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1937.

Koyre, Alexander. The Astronomical Revolution: Copernicus, Kepler, Borelli. London: Methuen, 1973. Translated by R. E. W. Maddison.

Kuhn, Thomas S. The Copernican Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957.

Neyman, Jerzy, ed. The Heritage of Copernicus: Theories “Pleasing to the Mind”. Cambridge, MA, and London: M.I.T. Press, 1977.

Westman, Robert S., ed. The Copernican Achievement. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1975.

Renaissance

Encyclopaedia of the Renaissance. London: Batsford, 1988. Comprehensive and beautifully illustrated reference dictionary, with bibliography.

Bergin, Thomas G., and Speake, Jennifer. Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Facts on file, 1987. Useful guide to the influential figures and political movements of the period.

Black, C., and others. Atlas of the Renaissance. London: Cassell, 1994. Good atlas of renaissance historiography; currently alone in its field.

Burckhardt, Jacob. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. Various publishers, Classic 19th-century study of the Renaissance, still important.

Burke, Peter. The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy. Cambridge: Polity, Standard work, first published 1972 as Culture and Society in Renaissance Italy 1420-1540.

Cairns, Trevor. Renaissance and Reformation. Cambridge University Press, 1987. An introduction to the period.

Hale, John. The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance. London: Harper Collins; Fontana, Wide-ranging study of all aspects by leading scholar, with ample bibliography.

Kristeller, Paul. Renaissance Thought and its Sources. Lectures on such themes as philosophy, religion, science, and literature.

Renaissance Music

Brown, Howard Mayer. Music in the Renaissance. Hemel Hempstead: Prentice-Hall, 1976.

Brown, Howard Mayer. Papal Music and Musicians in Medieval and Renaissance Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Gangwere, Blanche. Music History During the Renaissance Period, 1425-1520. London: Greenwood Press, 1991.

Haar, James. The Science and Art of Renaissance Music. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.

Henry, Derrick. The Listener's Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Music. Poole: Blandford Publishing Ltd., 1983.

Knighton, Tess, and Fallows, David. Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music. London: J. M. Dent, 1992.

McGee, Timothy J. Mediaeval and Renaissance Music: A Performer's Guide. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1989.

Reese, Gustave. Music in the Renaissance. London: J. M. Dent &Sons, 1954.

Rooley, Anthony. Musicks Feaste, 1480-1600: Music of the Renaissance. London: Sussex Publications Ltd., 1982.

Strunk, Oliver. Source Readings in Music History: (2): The Renaissance. London: Faber &Faber Ltd., 1981.

Williams, Pete. Music in the German Renaissance: Sources, Styles and Contexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Titian

Crowe, Sir Joseph A., and Cavalcaselle, Giovanni B. Titian: his Life and Times. London: John Murray, 1877. Reprinted 1978.

Goffen, Rona. Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice. Bellini, Titian and the Franciscans. London: Yale University Press, 1986.

Goffen, Rona. Titian's Women. London: Yale University Press, 1997.

Gould, Cecil. Titian as Portraitist. London: National Gallery, 1976.

Pedrocco, Filippo. Titian. London: Constable &Co. Ltd., 1993.

Ridolfi, Carlo. Life of Titian. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.

Rosand, David, ed. Titian: his World and his Legacy. Guildford: Columbia University Press, 1982.

Rosand, David. Painting in Sixteenth Century Venice. Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Wethey, Harold E. The Paintings of Titian. London: Phaidon Press, 1969-1975.