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Mary Hollingsworth

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

Hollingsworth gained a BSc 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.

Selected publications

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

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