Geographic List Early Modern Nations within Europe - Recommended Serious E-Books: Cloudy.diamonds

Italian City States

Entire Italian Peninsula

  1. The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conway Bondanella & Peter Bondanella (1511-1574 AD) - 624 pages
  2. Opera and Sovereignty by Martha Feldman (1700s AD) - 573 pages

Florence, Italy

  1. Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800 by Eric Cochrane - 608 pages
  2. Machiavelli by Joseph Markulin (1469-1527 AD) - 720 pages
  3. Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon (1571-1610 AD) - 544 pages
  4. Bartolomeo Cristofori and the Invention of the Piano by Stewart Pollens (1688-1732) - 566 pages

Venice, Italy

  1. Political Economies of Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean by Maria Fusaro (1450-1700 AD) - 792 pages
  2. Titian by Sheila Hale (-1576 AD) Venice - 864 pages
  3. The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi by John Whenham & Richard Wistreich (1567-1643 AD) - 612 pages
  4. Casanova by Laurence Bergreen (1725 AD) - 544 pages

Rome, Italy

  1. On Temporal and Spiritual Authority by Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621 AD) - 520 pages
  2. The Catechism of the Council of Trent by The Council of Trent (1545-1563 AD) - 720 pages
  3. The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi (1570) by Terence Scully - 800 pages
  4. The Eye of the Lynx by David Freedberg (1600s AD) - 525 pages
  5. Galileo by John L. Heilbron (1564-1642 AD) - 528 pages

Low Countries - Belgium and Netherlands

Reformation Low Countries - Belgium and Netherlands

  1. Fatal Discord by Michael Massing (1466-1536 AD)- 1,008 pages
  2. The Complete Writings of Menno Simons by J. C. Wenger & Leonard Verduin (1496-1561 AD) - 1,096 pages
  3. The Writings of Dirk Philips by William E. Keeney, Alvin J. Beachy & Cornelius J. Dyck (1504-1568 AD) - 704 pages
  4. Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe by Wayne P. Te Brake (1529-1651 AD) - 759 pages
  5. Britain and the Dutch Revolt, 1560-1700 by Hugh Dunthorne AD - 502 pages

Early Modern Low Countries - Belgium and Netherlands

  1. Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty by Hugo Grotius (1603 AD) - 660 pages
  2. Spinoza by Steven Nadler (1632-1677 AD) - 717 pages
  3. A Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the Gospel by Pierre Bayle (1647-1706 AD) - 664 pages
  4. The Merchant Republics by Mary Lindemann (1647-1790 AD) - 696 pages
  5. The Law of Nations by Emer de Vattel (1714-1767 AD) - 896 pages

18th Century Great Britain and Netherlands

  1. 1688 by Steve Pincus - 704 pages
  2. Handel by Donald Burrows (1685-1759 AD) - 656 pages
  3. Three Victories and a Defeat by Brendan Simms - 800 pages

Low Countries - Belgium and Netherlands/Protestants

  1. Martyrs Mirror by Thieleman J. Van Braght (0-1659 AD) - 1,160 pages
  2. Reformed Dogmatics by Herman Bavinck - 864 pages
  3. Living for God's Glory by Joel. R. Beeke - 631 pages
  4. Take Our Moments and Our Days Volume 1,2 by Arthur Paul Boers, Barbara Nelson Gingerich & Eleanor Kreider - 432 + 912 = 1,344 pages
  5. The Worship Sourcebook, Second Edition by Faith Alive Christian Resources - 848 pages
  6. Seeking God's Face by Philip F. Reinders - 832 pages

Central/Eastern and Southern European Regions

Early Modern Switzerland

  1. The Cambridge Companion to John Calvin by Donald K. McKim (1509-1564 AD) - 631 pages
  2. Sources of Swiss Anabaptism by Leland Harder (1525 AD) - 818 pages
  3. The Institutes of Christian Religion by John Calvin (1536 AD) - 976 pages
  4. Treatise On the Love of God by St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622 AD) - 608 pages
  5. The Principles of Natural and Politic Law by Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui (1694-1748 AD) - 606 pages

Early Modern Prussia

  1. Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark (1600-1947 AD) - 816 pages
  2. The Pity of War by Miranda Seymour (1613-1945 AD) - 528 pages
  3. Frederick the Great by Dennis Showalter (1712-1786 AD) - 620 pages
  4. Kant: A Biography by Manfred Kuehn (1724-1804 AD) - 1,040 pages
  5. Enlightenment Volume 1 by Peter Gay - 560 pages

Early Modern Central/Eastern Europe

  1. The Radical Reformation, 3rd ed. by George Huntston Williams (1500s AD) - 1,516 pages
  2. Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World by Nicholas Terpstra (1500s-1750s AD) - 570 pages
  3. Before Boas by Han F. Vermeulen (1730s-1780s AD) - 760 pages