Mary Hollingsworth

Elizabeth Mary Hollingsworth (born November 1950) is a British historian who specialises in the history of medieval Italy.

Hollingsworth gained a B.Sc in Business studies from the University of Manchester and a Ph.D. in art history from the University of East Anglia, where she later taught. She has studied the letters of Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este, and was a senior academic on the Material Renaissance Project.[1]

Selected publications

  • Catherine de' Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen (2024)[2]
  • Princes of the Renaissance (2021)
  • The Medici (2017); US edition title The Family Medici: The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty (2018)[3]
  • Conclave: 1559 (2013)
  • The Borgias: History's Most Notorious Dynasty (2011) ISBN 0857389165
  • Art in World History (2008)
  • The Cardinal’s Hat: Money, Ambition and Housekeeping in a Renaissance Court (2004)[4]
  • Patronage in Sixteenth Century Italy (1996)
  • Patronage in Renaissance Italy: From 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Century (1994)[5]
  • Architecture of the 20th Century (1988) ISBN 0861244621

References