All works are published in Paris unless otherwise stated.
Biographies of Catherine
Albèri, Eugenio, Vita de Caterina de Medici, Florence, 1838
Capefigue, M., Catherine de Médicis: Mère des Rois François II, Charles IX et Henri III, 1861
Cloulas, Ivan, Catherine de Médicis, 1979
De Castelnau, Jacques, Catherine de Médicis, 1954
De Lacombe, Bernard, Catherine de Médicis: Entre Guise et Condé, 1899
De Meneval, M., Catherine de Médicis 1519–1589, 1880
De Reumont, A., Catherine de Médicis, 1866
Héritier, Jean, Catherine de Médicis, 1940
Knecht, R. J., Catherine de’ Medici, London, 1998
Mahoney, Irene, Madame Catherine, London, 1976
Mariéjol, J.H., Catherine de Médicis 1519–1589, 1920
Neale, J. E., The Age of Catherine de’ Medici, London, 1943
Orieux, Jean, Catherine de Médicis ou La Reine Noire, 1986
Roederer, Ralph, Catherine de’ Medici and the Lost Revolution, London, 1937
Romier, Lucien, Le Royaume de Catherine de Médicis: La France à la Vielle des Guerres de Religion, 2 vols, 1922
Sichel, Edith, Catherine de’ Medici and the French Reformation, London, 1905
——The Later Years of Catherine de’ Medici, London, 1908
Trollope, T. A., The Girlhood of Catherine de’ Medici, 1856
Van Dyke, Paul, Catherine de’ Médicis, 2 vols, London, 1923
Waldman, Milton, Biography of a Family: Catherine de’ Medici and her Children, London, 1934
Watson, Francis, The Life and Times of Catherine de’ Medici, London, 1937
Books and Articles
Acton, Harold, The Last Medici, London, 1958
Adamson, John, ed., The Princely Courts of Europe 1500–1750, London, 1999
Ariés, Phillippe and Duby, Georges, Histoire de la Vie Privée, 1985
Arnold, Janet, ed., Queen Elizabeth’s Wardrobe Unlock’d, London, 1988
Baillie Cochrane, Dr. A. W. Francis I, 2 vols, London, 1870
Baldwin Smith, Lacey, The Elizabethan Epic, London, 1966
Baudouin-Matuszek, M. N., ed., Paris et Catherine de Médicis, n.d.
Baumgartner, Frederic J., Henri II: King of France 1547–1559, London, 1988
Bayrou, François, Henry IV: Le Roi Libre, 1994
Bély Lucien, ed., Dictionnaire de l’Ancien Régime, 1996
Bennassar, Bartolomé, Histoire des Espagnols, 1985
Bennassar, Bartolomé and Jacquart, Jean, Le XVIe Siècle, 1997
Bertière, Simone, Les Reines de France au Temps des Valois, 1994
Bostrum, Antonia, Equestrian Statue of Henri II commissioned by Catherine de Medici 1561–65/6, Burlington Magazine, December 1995
Bourdeille, Pierre de, Abbé de Brantôme, The Lives of Gallant Ladies, London, 1965
Bowen, Marjorie, Mary, Queen of Scots, London, 1971
Bradley, C. C., Western World Costume, London, 1954
Braudel, Fernand, The Identity of France, vol.2, London, 1990
——Out of Italy, 1989
Briggs, Robin, Early Modern France 1560–1715, Oxford, 1977
Bullard, Melissa, Filippo Strozzi and the Medici, Cambridge, 1980
Burman, Edward, The Italian Dynasties, London, 1989
Cameron, Euan, ed., Early Modern Europe, Oxford, 1999
Cardini, Franco (introduction), The Medici Women, Florence, 1993
Carroll, Stuart, Noble Power during the French Wars of Religion: The Guise Affinity and the Catholic Cause in Normandy, Cambridge, 1989
Castelot, André, Marie de Médicis: Le Désordres de la Passion, 1995
——Diane, Henri, Catherine: Le Triangle Royal, 1997
——La Reine Margot, 1993
Chastel, André, French Art The Renaissance 1430–1562, 1995
Cheetham, Erika, The Final Prophecies of Nostradamus, London, 1989
Cherubini, Giovanni and Fanelli, Giovanni, Il Palazzo Medici Riccardi di Firenzi, Florence, 1990
Chevalier, L’Abbé C., Debtes et Créanciers de la Royne Mère Catherine de Médicis 1589–1606, 1862
Chevallier, Pierre, Henri III, Roi Shakespearian, 1985
Cloulas, Ivan, La Vie Quotidienne dans les Châteaux de la Loire au temps de la Renaissance, 1983
——Henri II, 1985
——Philip II, 1992
——Diane de Poitiers, 1997
Codacci, L., Caterina de’ Medici: le ricette di una regina, Lucca, 1995
Constant, Jean-Marie, La Ligue, 1996
Cosgrave, Bronwyn, Costumes and Fashion: A Complete History, London, 2000
Cotton, Sir Robert, A Collection of the Most Memorable Events of the Last Hundred Years, 2 vols., 1612
Crété, Liliane, Coligny, 1985
Crouzet, Denis, La Nuit de la Saint-Barthélemy: Un Rêve Perdu de la Renaissance, 1994
Darcy, Robert, Le Duel: Le Duc de Guise contre L’Amiral de Coligny, Dijon, 1979
Davis, Natalie Zemon, The Gift in Sixteenth Century France, London, 2000
De la Mar, Jensen, Catherine de Medici and Her Florentine Friends, Sixteenth Century Journal, 9 February 1978, pp. 57–79
——French Diplomacy and the Wars of Religion, Sixteenth Century Journal, 5 February 1974, pp. 23–46
De Negroni, Barbara, Intolérances, Catholiques et Protestants en France 1560–1787, 1996
Doran, Susan, Elizabeth I, Gender, Power and Politics, History Today, May 2003, pp. 29–37
Duffy, Eamon, Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes, Yale, 1997
Dunn, Jane, Elizabeth and Mary, London, 2003
Elton, G. R., England Under the Tudors, London, 1974
England, Sylvia Lennie, The Massacre of Saint Bartholomew 1938
Erlanger, Philippe, St Bartholemew’s Night: The Massacre of Saint Bartholemew 1962
Ferrière, de la, Hector and Baguenault de Puchesse, eds., Lettres de Catherine de Médicis, 10 vols., 1880–1909
Fichtner, Paula Stuter, Emperor Maximilian II, London, 2001
Fierro, Alfred, Histoire et Dictionnaire de Paris, 1996
Fraser, Antonia, Mary, Queen of Scots, London, 1970
Freer, Martha Walker, Henry III, King of France and Poland: His Court and Times, 3 vols., London, 1858
Gabel, Leonie C., Secret Memoirs of a Renaissance Pope: The commentaries of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini Pius II, 1788
Gambino, Luigi, Regno de Francia e papato nella polemica sul Concilio di Trento (1582–1584), Il Pensiero Politico 8 (2), 1975, pp. 133–59
Garrisson, Janine, Marguerite de Valois, 1994
——Henri IV, le Roi et la Paix (1553–1610), 1984
——Tocsin pour un massacre ou la saison des Saint-Barthélemy, 1968
Gheri, Goro, Copialettere, vol. iv, folio 324, ASF
Gorsline, D. W., History of Fashion, London, 1953
Goubert, Pierre, Initiation à l’Histoire de la France, 1984
Hackett, Francis, Francis I, London, 1934
Hale, J. R., The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of the Italian Renaissance, London, 1981
Hall, Peter, Cities in Civilization, London, 1998
Hartnell, Norman, Royal Courts of Fashion, London, 1971
Hibbert, Christopher, The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, London, 1974
——Florence: The Biography of a City, London, 1993
——The Rise and Fall of the Medici Bank, History Today, August 1974
Holt, Mack P., The French Wars of Religion 1562–1629, Cambridge, 1995
Horne, Alistair, Seven Ages of Paris – Portrait of a City, London, 2002
Jenkins, Elizabeth, Elizabeth the Great, London, 1958
Johnson, Paul, Elizabeth: a study in Power and Intellect, London, 1998
——The Renaissance, London, 2000
Jouanna, Arlette, Hamon, Philippe, Biloghi, Dominique and Le Thiece, Guy, La France de la Renaissance, London, 2000
Kelly, Francis, M. and Schwabe, Randolph, Historical Costume 1490–1790, London, 1929
Kent, HRH Princess Michael of, Cupid and the King: Five Royal Paramours, London, 1991
Kingdon, Robert M., Myths about the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre 1572–6 Cambridge, Mass., 1988
Koenigsberger, H. G., Mosse, George L. and Bowler, G. Q., Europe in the Sixteenth Century, London, 1991
Knecht, R. J., Renaissance Warrior and Patron: The Reign of François I, Cambridge, 1994
——Francis I (1515–1547) 1982
La Ferrière, Hector de, La Saint-Barthélemy, Paris 1895
Lang, Jack, François Ier ou le Rêve Italien, 1997
Lebrun, François, La Vie Conjugale sous l’Ancien Régime, 1975
Letherington, John, ed., Years of Renewal: European History 1470–1600, London, 1988
LSE, The Letters of Marcilio Ficino, vol. vi, London, 1999
Machiavelli, Niccolò, The Prince, London, 1975
Martinez, Lauro, April Blood – Florence and the plot against the Medici, London, 2003
Melot, Michel, Châteaux of the Loire, Cambridge, 1997
Mignani, Daniela, The Medicean Villas by Guisto Utens, 1991
Milne-Tyte, Robert, Armada, Ware, 1998
Miquel, Pierre, Histoire de la France, 1976
Montaigne, Michel de, The Complete Essays, London, 1991
Motley, Mark, Becoming a French Aristocrat: The Education of the Court Nobility 1580–1715, Princeton, 1990
Murray, Linda, The High Renaissance and Mannerism, London, 1977
Murray, Peter and Linda, The Art of the Renaissance, London, 1997
Nognères, Henri, The Massacre of Saint Bartholomew 1962
Parker, Geoffrey, The Grand Strategy of Philip II, Yale, 1998
Pieraccini, Gaetano, La stirpe dei Medici de Cafaggiolo, Florence, 1947
Rowse, A. L., The Elizabethan Epic: The Life of the Society, London, 1971
Salimbeni, Gherardo Bartolini, Chronicles of the Last Actions of Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino, Florence, 1786
Salmon, J. H., Marie de Médicis as Queen and Regent of France, History Today, May 1963
Shannon, Sara, ed., Various Styles of Clothing, James Ford Bell Library, 2001
Simonin, Michel, Charles IX, 1995
Smith, Lacey Baldwin, The Elizabethan Epic, London, 1966
Solnon, Jean-François, La Cour de France, 1987
——Henri III: Un Désir de Majesté, 2001
Soman, Alfred, ed., The Massacre of St Bartholomew: Reappraisals and Documents 1974
Somerset, Anne, Elizabeth I, London, 1992
Starkey David, Elizabeth: Apprenticeship, London, 2000
Stephens, J. N., L’Infanzia Fiorentina di Caterina de Medici regina di Francia (ASI) 1984
Sutherland, Nicola M., Princes, Politics and Religion, London, 1984
Tenent, Alberto, La Francia, Venezia, e la Sacra Lega, pp. 398–408 in Benzoni, G., ed., Il Mediterraneo nella seconda metà del ’500 alla luce de Lepanto, Florence, 1973
Voisin, Jean-Louis, ed., Dictionnaire des Personnages Historiques, 1995
Volkmann, Jean-Charles, Les Généalogies des Rois de France, 1996
Walsh, Michael, ed., The Papacy, New York, 1997
Ward, A. W. and Prothero, G. W. and Leathes, S., The Cambridge Modern History, vol. II, The Reformation, vol. III, The Wars of Religion, Cambridge, 1907
Weir, Alison, Children of England: The Heirs of Henry VIII, London, 1997
——Elizabeth the Queen, London, 1998
White, Henry, The Massacre of St Bartholomew 1868
Williams, E. N., The Penguin Dictionary of English and European History 1485–1789, London, 1980
Williams, Hugh Noel, Henry II: His Court and Times, London, 1910
Yarwood, Doreen, Costume of the Western World, London, 1980
Young, Colonel G. F., The Medici, 2 vols., London, 1909