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Ames-Lewis, Francis. Drawing in early Renaissance Italy. 1999.: NC255 .A44 1999
Baxandall, Michael. Giotto and the orators. 1971: ∉
Baxandall, Michael. Painting and experience in 15th century Italy. 1974: ND615 .B32
Black, R. Benedetto Accolti and the Florentine Renaissance. 1985
Black, R. Humanism and education in Renaissance society. Tradition and innovation in Tuscan schools, 1200-1500.
Branca, V. Bocaccio. The man and his works. 1976
Brown, A. Bartomomeo Scala, Chancellor of Florence. 1979.
Bühler, C.F. The 15th century book. The scribes, the printers, the decorators. 1960
Bull, Malcolm. The Mirror Of The Gods: How The Renaissance Artists Rediscovered The Pagan Gods
Butterfield, Herbert. Origins of Modern Science.: A classic. Rather dated now, but highly readable and recommended, as long as you don't stop there.
Campbell, Tony. The earliest printed maps, 1472-1500. 1987
Chambers, D.S. Patrons and Artists in the Italian Renaissance.
Chambers, D., Clough, C.H. & Mallett, M.E. (eds.) War, culture and society in Renaissance Venice. 1993.
Cipolla, Carlo M. Public Health and the Medical Profession in the Renaissance. 1976.
Clark, Kenneth. Piero della Francesca. 1969
Cobban, A.B. The medieval universities. 1975
Cobban, A.B. The medieval English universities: Oxford and Cambridge to c. 1500. 1988
Cochrane, Eric. Historians and historiography in the Italian Renaissance. 1981
Cole, Bruce. The Renaissance Artist at Work. 1984
Cole, Bruce. Italian Art, 1250-1550. 1987.
Cole, B. Giotto and Florentine painting 1280-1375
Coleman, J. Public reading and the reading public in late medieval England and France. 1996
Courtenay, W.J. Schools and scholars in 14th century England. 1987
D'Amico, John F.Renaissance Humanism in Papal Rome. 1983.
Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The printing press as an agent of change. Communications and cultural transformations in early-modern Europe. 1979: A classic work. Deeply flawed, in my opinion, but it's a classic statement of a particular point of view and required reading for anyone interested in the relationship between printing and society.
Fenlon, I. Music and Patronage in 16th Century Mantua. 1981.
Ferguson, Wallace K. The Renaissance in Historical Thought. 1948.: The best work available on the history of the idea of the Renaissance. Unfortunately, it stops with the WWII generation.
Frugoni, Chiara. A distant city. Images of urban experience in the medieval world. 1991
Gardner, J. The tomb and the tiara. Curial tomb sculpture in Rome and Avignon in the later Middle Ages. 1992
Gay, R. House of Gold: Building a Palace in Medieval Venice. 1992.
Gibbs, Robert. Tomaso de Modena, painting in Emilia and the March of Treviso 1340-1380. 1989
Gilbert, C.E. Italian Art, 1400-1500. 1980.
Gill, Anton. Il Gigante: Michelangelo, Florence, And The David, 1492-1504
Grendler, P.F. Schooling in Renaissance Italy. Literacy and learning, 1300-1600. 1989
Grendler, Paul F. The Universities Of The Italian Renaissance
Grosjean, G. Mappamundi. The Catalan atlas of the year 1375. 1978
Hale, J.R. Artists and warfare in the Renaissance. 1990
Harbison, C. The play of realism. 1991
Hay, Denys. The Italian Renaissance in Its Historical Background: A good follow-on to Ferguson's historiographical work (see above).
Hay, Denys. Europe. The emergence of an idea. 1957
Hedeman, A.D. The royal image. Illustrations of the Grandes Chroniques de
Hersey, G.L. Alfonso II and the Artistic Renewal of Naples. 1969.
Hindman, S. (ed.) Printing the written word. The social history of books, c. 1450-1520. 1991
Hood, W. Fra Angelico at San Marco. 1993
Kent, F.W. and Simon, P. eds. Patronage, Art and Society in Renaissance Italy. 1987.
Larner, John. Culture and society in Italy 1290-1420. 1979
Levey, M. The Early Renaissance. 1967: Renaissance art
Lightbown, R. Mantegna. 1986
Lockwood, L. Music in Renaissance Ferrara 1400-1505. 1984
Lowry, M. The world of Aldus Manutius. Business and scholarship in Renaissance Europe. 1979
Lytle, G. and Oregl, S. eds. Patronage in the Renaissance. 1981.
Martindale, A. The rise of the artist in the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. 1972
Morand, K. Claus Sluter. Artist at the court of Burgundy. 1991
Müller, T. Sculpture in Germany, the Netherlands, France and Spain, 1400-1500. 1968
Murdoch, J. & Sylla, E. The cultural context of medieval learning. 1975
Ooostrom, F.P. van The word of honor. Literature at the court of Holland in about 1350-1450. 1992
Palmer, J.J.N. (ed.) Froissart: Historian. 1981
Panofsky, E. Renaissance and renascences in western art. 1970: Despite many revisions and amendments by later historians (this book is older than 1970), Panofsky is still fundamental to any serious study of interpreting Renaissance art.
Pearsall, G. The life of Geoffrey Chaucer. 1992
Piltz, A. The world of medieval learning. 1981
Rosenberg, C.M. (ed.) Art and patronage in late medieval and early Renaissance Italy. 1990
Rouse, M.A. & R. Cartolai, illuminators, and printers in 15th century Italy: the evidence of the Ripoli press. 1988
Saalman, H. The cupola of S. Maria del Fiore. 1980
Saenger, P. "Silent reading: Its impact on late medieval script," Viator 53: 367-414. 1982
Seidel, L. Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini portrait. Stories of an icon. 1993
Sherman, C. Imagining Aristotle. Verbal and visual representation in 14th century France. 1995
Starn, R. & Partridge, L. Arts of power. Three halls of state in 14th century France. 1995
Trapp, J.B. (ed.) Manuscripts in the fifty years after the invention of printing. 1983
Trinkaus, C. In our image and likeness. Humanity and divinity in Italian humanist thought. 2 vols. 1970
Wackernagel, M. The world of the Florentine artists. 1981
Welch, Evelyn S. Art and authority in Renaissance Milan. 1995
Weiss, R. The Renaissance discovery of classical antiquity. 1969
Witt, R.G. Hercules at the crossroads. The life, works and thought of Coluccio Salutati. 1983