Mary Hollingsworth is a scholar of the Italian Renaissance, and author of The Cardinal’s Hat, The Borgias: History’s Most Notorious Dynasty and Patronage in Renaissance Italy: From 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Century.
Books in order of publication:
Architecture of the 20th Century (1988)
Patronage in Renaissance Italy: From 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Century (1994)
Patronage in Sixteenth Century Italy (1996)
The Cardinal’s Hat: Money, Ambition and Housekeeping in a Renaissance Court (2004)
Art in World History (2008)
The Borgias: History’s Most Notorious Dynasty (2011)
Conclave: 1559 (2013)
The Medici (2017)
The Family Medici: The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty (2018)
Princes of the Renaissance (2021)
Catherine de’ Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen (2024)
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