Here is a reading list for topics covered in the “Florentine Golden Age 1469–1512” seminar series:

Carmen Bambach. Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered, Yale Univ Press, 2019.

Gene Brucker. Renaissance Florence, Univ of California Press, 1969.

Denise M. Budd. “Leonardo, Medici Ephemera, and the Art of the Pazzi Conspiracy” in Watching Art: Writings in Honor of James Beck, ed. Lynn Catterson and Mark Zucker, Ediart, 2006.

Melissa Meriam Bullard. Lorenzo il Magnifico: Image and Anxiety, Politics and Finance, Olschki, 1994.

Stefano Dall’Aglio. Savonarola and Savonarolism, Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2010.

Charles Dempsey. The Portrayal of Love: Botticelli’s ‘Primavera’ and Humanist Culture at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Princeton Univ Press, 1992.

Raymond De Roover. The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank: 1397-1494, Harvard Univ Press, 1963.

Marsilio Ficino. Commentary on Plato’s Symposium on Love, trans. and ed. Sears Jayne, Spring Publications, 1985.

Creighton E. Gilbert. “What Is Expressed in Michelangelo’s ‘Non-Finito’,” Artibus et Historiae , 2003, Vol. 24, No. 48, pp. 57-64.

Rona Goffen. Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian, Yale Univ Press, 2001.

Richard Goldthwaite. The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and Social History, Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 1980.

Richard Goldthwaite. The Economy of Renaissance Florence, Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2009.

Ernst H. Gombrich. “Botticelli’s Mythologies: A Study in the Neoplatonic Symbolism of His Circle,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 8 (1945), 7–60.

Guicciardini, Francesco. The History of Florence, trans. Mario Domandi, Harper & Row, 1970.

Rab Hatfield. “The Compagnia de’ Magi,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1970, Vol. 33, pp. 107-161.

Michael Hirst. “Michelangelo in Florence: ‘David’ in 1503 and ‘Hercules’ in 1506,” The Burlington Magazine, Aug., 2000, Vol. 142, No. 1169 , pp. 487-492.

Judith Hook. Lorenzo de’ Medici: An Historical Biography, Hamish Hamilton, 1984.

Peter Howard.“Preaching Magnificence in Renaissance Florence”, Renaissance Quarterly , Vol. 61, No. 2 (Summer 2008), pp. 325-369.

Martin Kemp. Leonardo, Oxford Univ Press, 2004.

Martin Kemp. Leonardo da Vinci, the Marvellous Works of Nature and Man, Harvard Univ Press, 1981.

Francis William Kent. Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Art of Magnificence, Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2004.

Saul Levine. “The Location of Michelangelo’s David: The Meeting of January 25, 1504,” The Art Bulletin, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Mar., 1974), pp. 31-49.

Ronald Lightbown. Sandro Botticelli: life and work, Thames and Hudson, 1989.

James R. Lindow. The Renaissance Palace in Florence: Magnificence and Splendour in Fifteenth-Century Italy, Ashgate, 2007.

Lauro Martines. April blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici, Oxford Univ Press, 2003.

Lauro Martines. Scourge and Fire: Savonarola and Renaissance Italy, Vintage Publishing, 2007.

Sarah Blake McHam. “Structuring Communal History through Repeated Metaphors of Rule” in Renaissance Florence: A Social History, ed. Crum and Paoletti, Cambridge Univ Press, 2006, pp.104-37.

Lorenzo de’ Medici. Selected Poems and Prose, edited and translated by John Thiem, Penn State Press, 1992

John Najemy. A History of Florence 1200–1575, Blackwell, 2006.

Edward J. Olszewski. “Michelangelo’s David: Full Frontal Nudity in the Age of Savonarola,” Notes in the History of Art , Vol. 35, No. 1-2 (Fall 2015/Winter 2016), pp. 118-125.

John T. Paoletti. Michelangelo’s David: Florentine history and civic identity, Cambridge Univ Press, 2015.

Tim Parks. Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-century Florence, Norton & Co, 2006.

Loren Partridge. Art of Renaissance Florence 1400-1600, Univ of California Press, 2009.

Roslyn Pesman. “Machiavelli, Piero Soderini, and the Republic of 1494-1512” in The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli, ed. John Nalemy, Cambridge Univ Press, 2010.

Angelo Poliziano. The Stanze, trans. David Quint, Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1979.

Lorenzo Polizzotto. The Elect Nation: The Savonarolan Movement in Florence, 1494-1545, Clarendon Press, 1994.

Janet Ross. Lives of the Early Medici as Told in Their Correspondence, Chatto & Windus, 1910.

Mario Scalini. “The Chivalric ‘Ludus‘ in Quattrocento Florence,” in C. Acidini Luchinat, ed., Renaissance Florence: The age of Lorenzo de’ Medici 1449–1492, Ediz.Charta 1993.

Richard Stapleford. Lorenzo de’ Medici At Home: The Inventory of the Palazzo Medici in 1492, Penn State Univ Press, 2013.

Alessandra Strozzi. Letters to Her Sons. Judith Bryce, trans. and ed., Univ of Chicago Press, 2016.

Alessandra Strozzi. Selected Letters. Heather Gregory, trans. and ed., Univ of California Press, 1997.

Lucrezia Tornabuoni. Sacred Narratives, Jane Tylus, trans and ed. Univ of Chicago Press, 2001.

A. Richard Turner. Inventing Leonardo, Univ of Illinois Press, 1993.

William E. Wallace. Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man and his Times. Cambridge Univ Press, 2009.

Aby Warburg. “Sandro Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Spring,” in The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity: Contributions to the Cultural History of the European Renaissance, vol. I (1932), The Getty Research Publications, 1999.

Edgar Wind. Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance, Oxford Univ Press, 1980.

Donald Weinstein. Savonarola and Florence: Prophecy and Patriotism in the Renaissance, Princeton Univ Press, 1970.

Donald Weinstein. Savonarola: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet, Yale Univ Press, 2011.