Books by Lauro Martines

Born in Chicago but resident in London, Lauro Martines has a Ph.D. from Harvard University and used to commute to Los Angeles, where he was Professor of European History at the University of California. He and his wife, the novelist Julia O'Faolain, married and lived in Florence for years. His best known books include Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence (1968), Society and History in English Renaissance Verse (1985), An Italian Renaissance Sextet: Six Tales in Historical Context (1994), Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance (2001), and Power and Imagination, now available in Pimlico.