Renaissance Lives: Portraits of an Age

A lavishly illustrated companion to the five-part PBS series describes, in detail, the lives of fifteen men and women of the Renaissance--including Catherine de'Medici, Titian, Galileo, Montaigne, and Gentileschi--to present a history of the era. 17,500 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo. TV tie-in.

Theodore K. Rabb is a professor of Renaissance and early modern history at Princeton University. He has written or edited over twenty books, including Jacobean Gentleman and The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe. He is currently writing The Death of the Renaissance, to be published by Basic Books.