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his actual list for the Renaissance time period taken from the Chronological History section of All Through the Ages will give an idea of the format and scope of the book.

Renaissance, 15th - 16th Centuries

Resources for all ages:

Italian Renaissance by John D Clare (Living History series) G

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Journey Through History: The Renaissance by Gloria Vergas G

Antonio’s Apprenticeship: Painting a Fresco in Renaissance Italy by

Taylor Morrison

Botticelli: Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists by Venezia

(1444-1510 3rd-4th grade) G

Pop Up Leonardo da Vinci by A & M Provensen (Italy: 1452-1519) G

Da Vinci: Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists by Venezia

(1452-1519 3rd-4th grade) G

Michelangelo: Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists by Venezia (1475-1564) G

Michelangelo’s World by Piero Ventura

Bruegel: Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists by Venezia

(Belgium 1525-1569) G

St. Philip of the Joyous Heart by Francis X Connolly (Italy: 16th cen.

monk) A

Sir Walter Raleigh by Adele deLeeuw (1552-1618, World Explorer

series 3rd-4th grade)

Rembrandt: Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists by Venezia

(Netherlands 1606-69) G

4-6: History Stories of Other Lands: the New Liberty 1485-1688 by Arthur Guy Terry; Famous Men of the Renaissance & the Reformation by Robert G Shearer G; The Renaissance: History of Everyday Things by Giovanni Caselli G; The Renaissance by Simon Goodenough (overview, Living Past series) B; The Everyday Life of a Florentine Merchant by Giovanni Caselli; A Renaissance Town: the Inside Story by Jacqueline Morley (Florence, Italy) G; Story of Sculpture by Francesca Romei G; The Apprentice by Pilar Molina Llorente (hist. fict. Florence, Italy) S; Giotto & Medieval Art by Lucia Corrain (Italy 1266-1337, Masters of Art series) G; The Glorious Impossible by L'Engle & Giotto (Giotto's 40 frescoes of the life of Christ) G; Leonardo da Vinci by Diane Stanley (Italy: 1452-1519, for grades 3 and up) G; Leonardo da Vinci: Artist, Inventor & Scientist by F Romei (1452-1519, Masters of Art series) G; Leonardo da Vinci by Emily Hahn (Italy: 1452-1519) L; Leonardo da Vinci by Norman F Marshall & Aldo Ripamonti (Florence, Italy: 1452-1519) S; Leonardo da Vinci by Anthony Mason (Famous Artists: Italy 1452-1519) G; Leonardo da Vinci: Pathfinder of Science by Henry Gillette (1452-1519 Immortals of Science series); Leonardo da Vinci by Tony Hart (Famous Children, Italy 1452-1519, early years) G; Leonardo da Vinci by Bruno Santi B; Michelangelo: Master of the Italian Renaissance by Gabriella di Cagno (Masters of Art series) G; Michelangelo by Jen Green (Famous Artists: Italy 1475-1564) G; Introducing Michelangelo by Robin Richmond (Italy 1475-1564) G; Michelangelo by Tony Hart (Famous Children, Italy 1475-1564, early years) G; Michelangelo & His Times by Veronique Milande (humorous account of Michelangelo's Italy) G; Galileo & Experimental Science by Rebecca B Marcus (1564-1642, Immortals of Science series); Galileo by Leonard Fisher (Italian astronomer, 1564-1642) G; Mary, Queen of Scots by Emily Hahn (Scotland & France: 1542-1587) L; Good Queen Bess by Diane Stanley (England: 1533-1603) G; Queen Elizabeth & the Spanish Armada by Frances Winwar (England: 1588) L; Under Drake's Flag: a tale of the Spanish Main by G A Henty (1588); Walter Raleigh by Henrietta Buckmaster (England: 1552-1618) L; Will Shakespeare & the Globe Theater by Anne Terry White (England: 1564-1616) L; Bard of Avon: the Story of William Shakespeare by Diane Stanley (England: 1564-1616) G; Shakespeare's Theater: the Inside Story by Jacqueline Morley G; An Introduction to Shakespeare by Marchette Chute; Tales From Shakespeare by Charles & Mary Lamb E; Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit; The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman N; Rembrandt by Claudio Pescio (Netherlands 1606-69, Masters of Art series) G; I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth de Trevino (Spain: slave to Velazquez, 1599-1660) N; Don Quixote and Sancho Panza by Margaret Hodges (Spain 1605, Cervantes' masterpiece) G; A 16th Century Mosque: the Inside Story by Fiona Macdonald (Mid east) G

7-9: Renaissance and Reformation by Dorothy Mills (overview); Renaissance: Maker of Modern Man by Kenneth M Setton (National Geographic Society); Lorenzo de Medici & the Renaissance by Charles L Mee (Horizon Caravel series); Leonardo da Vinci by da Vinci (from Leonardo Exposition, Milan 1938, writings show how deeply Leonardo penetrated the most varied fields of human knowledge); Leonardo da Vinci by Jay Williams (Horizon Caravel series); What Makes a Leonardo a Leonardo? by Richard Muhlberger (Italy 1452-1519) G; Second Mrs. Giaconda by E L Konigsburg (Italy: 1452-1519, da Vinci & the Mona Lisa) S; Michelangelo by Elizabeth Ripley (bio Italy 1475-1564 sculptor, architect, painter) A; What Makes a Raphael a Raphael? by Richard Muhlberger (Italy 1483-1520) G; Great Masters by Giorgio Vasari (6 Italian artists by a contemporary) A; Galileo & the Magic Numbers by Sidney Rosen (bio Italian astronomer) A; The Universe of Galileo & Newton by William Bixby (Horizon Caravel series); What Makes a Bruegel a Bruegel? by Richard Muhlberger (Belgium 1525-1569) G; What Makes a Rembrandt a Rembrandt? by Richard Muhlberger (Netherlands 1606-69) G; Doctor Paracelsus by Sidney Rosen (Switzerland 1493-1541 scientific medical research) A; Don Quixote by Michael Harrison (Spain 1605, retelling of Cervantes' masterpiece) G; Windsor Castle by William H Ainsworth (Henry VIII) A; King’s Fool by Margaret Barnes (Henry VIII) A; Marmion: a Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott (England - Scotland 1513 poem) A; Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (mid 16th c. England) R; Francis Bacon: The Temper of a Man by Catherine Bowen (under James I, 1561-1626) A; Sir Walter Raleigh by John Buchan (bio) A; Sir Walter Raleigh, Captain & Adventurer by Geoffrey Tease (bio) A; Queens and the Hive by Edith Sitwell (Elizabeth, Mary, & Mary) A; Murder for Her Majesty by Beth Hilgartner (Elizabethan era intrigue) A; Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott (England 1575: Elizabeth & Earl of Leicester) B; The Lion and the Throne by Catherine Bowen (Sir Edward Coke) A; Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley (England: 1575-88, intolerance) A; Shakespeare of London by Marchette Chute (England, 1564-1616 biography) A; The Wonderful Winter by Marchette Chute (Shakespeare’s Theatre) A; Shakespeare's Theater by Walter C Hodges; I Will Adventure by Elizabeth Janet Gray (1596 London - Shakespeare) A; Shakespeare's England by Louis B Wright (Horizon Caravel Series); Bartholomew Fair by Mary Stolz (a day at Bartholomew Fair in 1598) S; The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott (Scotland, poem, legend, Gaelic history) A; The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Sir Walter Scott (Scotland, poem, customs of clans) A; The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott (Scotland, hist. fic.) A; The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott (Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots, sequel to above) A; The Tower of London by William H Ainsworth (1553-59, Queen Mary’s reign) A; Reluctant Queen, Mary Tudor by Molly Haycroft A; Master Cornhill by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (the Great Plague - 1665) S

10-12: Michelangelo by Howard Hibbard (bio Italy 1475-1564) A; The Agony & the Ecstasy by Irving Stone (hist. fic. Michelangelo Florence & Rome) A; Romola by George Eliot (Florence, Italy: 1492-98) A; Romance of Leonardo da Vinci by Dmitri Merejkowski (Italy 15th cen.) A; Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by George Braziller W; Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter W; The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (Italy: treatise on government pub. 1513) W; Oration on the Dignity of Man by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (defense of Christianity); Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais (1490-1553 France, giant legends) W; Spiritual Exercises by Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556 Spain) C; Cellini’s Autobiography by Benvenuto Cellini (Italy 16th cen sculptor) W; Interior Castle, The Way of Perfection by Theresa of Avila (1515-82 Spain) C; The Dark Night of the Soul, The Ascent of Mt. Carmel by John of the Cross (1577? Spain) C; Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616 Spain) W, R; King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare (1509-47, changes leading to Reformation in England) W; Frances Bacon: His Career & Thought by Fulton Anderson (bio) A; Utopia by Sir Thomas More (published in England 1516) W; Thomas More by Raymond W Chambers (bio) A; The Life of Sir Thomas More by William Roper (bio by son-in-law) A; More’s Utopia: The Biography of an Idea by J H Hexter (ideal state) A; Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt (drama of Thomas More); Essays by Michel Eyquem Montaigne (1533-1592) W; The Queen’s Quair by Maurice Hewlett (Mary Queen of Scots 1553-59) A; Mary: Queen of Scotland & the Isles by Stefan Zweig (brilliant & irresistable biography); Novum Organon by Francis Bacon (1561-1626) W; Elizabeth the Great by Elizabeth Jenkins (bio: 1533-1603) A; Queen Elizabeth I by John E. Neale (authoritative bio) A; Works of William Shakespeare (1564-1616 England) W, C; Alias Shakespeare by Joseph Sobran (Earl of Oxford as the true author of Shakespeare); Private Devotions by Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626 England) C; Sir Walter Raleigh by S J Greenblatt (bio) A; The King’s Cavalier by Samuel Shellabarger (France: hist. fic. 1523) A; Introduction to the Devout Life by Francis de Sales (1567-1622 France) C; Henry of Navarre by Q Hurst (France: Henry IV reigned 1589-1610, popular king) A

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