The most popular Renaissance books of 2026

Devoted to His Sword

Florence A. Bliss

The Sistine Chapel Michelangelo's Magnum Opus

Asia Graziano

Lorenzo Ghiberti Designer

Scott Nethersole

Beloved Son Felix Coming of Age in the Renaissance

Felix Platter

No More Time to Lose The Battle of Kahlenberg and the Relief of Vienna, 12 September 1683

Alan Exelby

The Alchemical Imagination Creativity As Catalyst for Radical Transformation

Eliza Swann

Forming Aristocracy

The Late Hamish Scott

The Rising Knight

Catherine L. Akel

Renaissance Polish Armies 1492–1569

Adrian Jamka

Trading at the Edge of Empires Francesco Carletti's World, Ca. 1600

Giorgio Riello, Luca Molà

Empire of the East Poland-Lithuania 1500-1700

Vincent Rospond

Book of Forbidden Words A Novel

Louise Fein

That Was Genius Lost Knowledge and Incredible Inventions from History

Emily Dodd

The Matter of Virtue Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare

Holly A. Crocker

Touched by the Mother Black Men, American Art, Feminist Horizons

Huey Copeland

Venetian Canvas and the Transformation of Painting

Cleo Nisse

The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals How Practical Arithmetic Shaped Commerce and Mathematics in Western Europe, 1200–1600

Raffaele Danna

Wife to Mr. Milton

Robert Graves

Rüstkammer Dresden. The Firearms Gallery in the Long Corridor

The Lost Diary of Lucrezia Borgia Deathbed Confessions of the Pope's Daughter

Johnny Teague

The House of Barbary A Novel

Isabelle Schuler

Samuel Pepys in 50 Places and Objects

Paul Kendall

Giorgione, Dante and the Sydney Incunable

Jaynie Anderson

The Complete Works of John Milton

William Osler Professor of English Sharon Achinstein