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Renaissance Florence by Gene A. Brucker
Call Number: Circulation DG737.55 .B84 1983
ISBN: 0520049195
Publication Date: 1983-04-08
The Medici by Colonel George F. Young
Call Number: Circulation DG737.42 .Y8 1933
Publication Date: 1933
Dynasty and Destiny in Medici Art by Janet Cox-Rearick
Call Number: Circulation N7606 .C69 1984
ISBN: 0691040230
Publication Date: 1984-12-21
Ghiberti's Bronze Doors by Lorenzo Ghiberti; Richard Krautheimer
Call Number: Circulation NB1287 .F6 G38 1971
ISBN: 0691038740
Publication Date: 1971-11-21
Disclosing Horizons : Architecture, Perspective and Redemptive Space by Nicholas Temple
ISBN: 0203968107
Publication Date: 2006-11-01

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Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
ISBN: 9780191561122
Publication Date: 1991-01-01

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Donatello by Giovanna G. Bertela; Nancy Pearson (Translator); Anthony Brierley (Translator)
Call Number: Circulation NB623 .D7G33 1991
ISBN: 1878351192
Publication Date: 1991-09-01
Reading Plotinus: A Practical Introduction to Neoplatonism by Kevin Corrigan
ISBN: 9781557532343
Publication Date: 2004-12-10

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Lorenzo dei Medici and Renaissance Italy by Ceclilia M. Ady
Call Number: Circulation DG737.9 .A6
Publication Date: 1955
Botticelli : biographical and critical study by Giulio Carlo Argan; James Emmons (translator)
Call Number: Circulation ND623.B7 A713
Publication Date: 1957
Music in the Renaissance by Gustave Reese
Call Number: Circulation ML172 .R42 1959
Publication Date: 1959
Ficino, Pico and Savonarola by A. Edelheit
ISBN: 9789047442752
Publication Date: 2008-01-01

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Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence by Gene Brucker
ISBN: 0520930991
Publication Date: 2005-03-14

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Florence
Publication Date: 1997

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The Power of the Past, with Bill Moyers : Florence by PBS
Call Number: Films on Demand
Publication Date: 1990

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The Medici, Godfathers of the Renaissance - 4 part series by PBS - Empires
Call Number: Audio Visual DG737.42 .M43 2004
Publication Date: 2004

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Duomo by National Geographic
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Publication Date: 2013

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