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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.