Alison Brown

Printing, Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy

Alison Brown reviews a new title on Renaissance printing by Brian Richardson.

Published March 1 2000

The Memoir of Marco Parenti; & Power and Display in the Seventeenth Century

Two new titles

Published December 1 1989

Jacob Burckhardt's Renaissance

Alison Brown evaluates the life and scholarship of the great German historian of Renaissance Italy and his seminal influence on Western cultural history.

Published October 1 1988

The Enigma of Piero

Published May 31 1986

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Lords of the Northern Forest

The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.