RELATED READINGS

Italian authors of the Renaissance

Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
Orlando Furioso

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
The Decameron

Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571)
Autobiography

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1522)
The Prince

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), poet and essayist

Novels set in Renaissance Italy

Sarah Dunant
The Birth of Venus

George Eliot
Romola

Karen Essex
Leonardo's Swans

Hella S. Haasse
The Scarlet City

Jeanne Kalogridis
The Borgia Bride
I, Mona Lisa

Gregory Maguire
Mirror Mirror

W. Somerset Maugham
Then and Now

Jacqueline Park
The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi

Other novels with prostitutes as main characters

Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders

Michael Faber
The Crimson Petal and the White

Sheri Holman
The Dress Lodger

Emile Zola
Nana

Compiled by Suzanne Fisher (fishers@uhls.lib.ny.us)
June 6, 2007