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• Art -- 16th century
• Art, Flemish -- 16th century
• Arts -- 16th century
• Church history -- 16th century
• Civilization -- 16th century
• Drawing -- 16th century
• Drawing, Italian -- 16th century
• Early printed books -- 16th century
• Economic history -- 16th century
• Engraving -- 16th century
• Engraving, Italian -- Italy -- Mantua -- 16th century
• French literature -- 16th century
• French poetry -- 16th century
• History -- 16th century
• History, Naval -- 16th century
• Illustration of books -- 16th century
• Intellectual life -- 16th century
• Italian literature -- 16th century
• Italian poetry -- 16th century
• Letters -- 16th century
• Mural painting and decoration, Italian -- Italy -- Battaglia Terme -- 16th century
• Music -- 16th century
• Nahuatl poetry -- 16th century
• Painting -- 16th century
• Pastoral poetry, Italian -- 16th century
• Persecution -- England -- 16th century
• Portrait painting -- 16th century
• Portrait painting, Dutch -- 16th century
• Prints -- 16th century
• Religion -- 16th century
• Sermons, English -- 16th century
• Social conditions -- 16th century
• Social life and customs -- 16th century
• Wood-engraving -- 16th century
• Wood-engraving, German -- 16th century

• Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, c2005), by Anne-Marie S. Logan and Michiel Plomp, illust. by Peter Paul Rubens (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Drawings from the J. Paul Getty Museum (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1993), contrib. by George R. Goldner (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Renaissance Ornament Prints and Drawings (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981), by Janet S. Byrne (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Musée du Louvre, Paris: Roman, Tuscan, and Emilian Schools, 1500-1575 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974), by Roseline Bacou and Françoise Viatte (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982), by Jacob Bean and Lawrence Turčić (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Drawings (Robert Lehman Collection series v5; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1991), by Anna Forlani Tempesti (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Europe in the Age of Monarchy (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987), contrib. by John T. Spike (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Zelotti's Epic Frescoes at Cataio: The Obizzi Saga (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), by Irma B. Jaffe, contrib. by Gernando Colombardo (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Giambologna: Narrator of the Catholic Reformation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Mary Weitzel Gibbons (HTML at UC Press)

• Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: North Italian School (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986), by Federico Zeri and Elizabeth E. Gardner (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Annales Ecclesiastici (37 volumes in Latin; Barri-Ducis et al., 1864-1883), by Cesare Baronio, Odorico Rinaldi, Giacomo Laderchi, and Augustin Theiner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Corpus Catholicorum (in German) (partial serial archives)

• Corpus Catholicorum (in German) (partial serial archives)

• Giambologna: Narrator of the Catholic Reformation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Mary Weitzel Gibbons (HTML at UC Press)

• The Age of Reason Begins: A History of European Civilization in the Period of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, and Descartes, 1558-1648 (The Story of Civilization v7; New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961), by Will Durant and Ariel Durant (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Thirty Years' War, by Friedrich Schiller, trans. by A. J. W. Morrison (Gutenberg text)
• The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1875), by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (page images at MOA)
• The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland; With a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of the Thirty Years' War, by John Lothrop Motley (Gutenberg text)
• Svenska Minnen Från Böhmen och Mähren: Kulturhistoriska Skisser Från Trettio-Arige Kriget (in Swedish; Lund: C. W. K. Gleerup, 1910), by Alfred Jensen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Konrad von Burgsdorff: Ein Brandenburgischer Kriegs- und Staatsmann aus der Zeit der Kurfürsten Georg Wilhelm und Friedrich Wilhelm (in German; Berlin: A. Duncker, 1903), by Karl Spannagel
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Reformation Debate: Sadoleto's Letter to the Genevans, and Calvin's Reply, With an Appendix on the Justification Controversy (New York: Fordham University Press, 2000), by Jean Calvin and Jacopo Sadoleto, ed. by John C. Olin (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• The Social History of the Reformation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1972), ed. by Lawrence P. Buck and Jonathan W. Zophy (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Renaissance and the Reformation (electronic edition, 1998), by William Gilbert and Edwyna Condon Gilbert, ed. by Judith C. Galas (HTML in Italy)
• Beacon-Lights of the Reformation: or, Romanism and the Reformers (second edition; Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work, 1915), by Robert F. Sample, contrib. by John Hall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lives of the Principal Reformers, Both Englishmen and Foreigners, Comprehending the General History of the Reformation, From its Beginning, in 1360, by Dr. John Wickliffe, to its Establishment in 1600, under Queen Elizabeth (London: Printed for E. Bakewell et al., 1759), by Richard Rolt (multiple formats at Google)
• Mooted Questions of History (revised edition; Boston: Marlier and Co., 1902), by Humphrey J. Desmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Necessity of Reforming the Church, by Jean Calvin, trans. by Henry Beveridge (HTML at Still Waters)
• Studies from Court and Cloister: Being Essays, Historical and Literary, Dealing Mainly with Subjects Relating to the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, by J. M. Stone (Gutenberg text)
• The Conservative Reformation and its Theology, As Represented in the Augsburg Confession, and in the History and Literature of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1871), by Charles P. Krauth
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The History of Protestantism, by J. A. Wylie
  • PDF files at reformation.org
  • HTML at doctrine.org
• Romanism and the Reformation, From the Standpoint of Prophecy (Toronto: S. R. Briggs, ca. 1887), by H. Grattan Guinness (multiple formats at archive.org)
• European Background of American History, 1300-1600 (The American Nation, a History, v1), by Edward Potts Cheyney (Gutenberg text)
• European Background of American History, 1300-1600 (The American Nation, a History, v1; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1904), by Edward Potts Cheyney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Bescheiden Betreffende de Hervorming in Overijssel, Eerste Deel: Deventer (1522-1546) (no further parts known to be published; in Dutch; Deventer: Deventer Boek- en Steendrukkerij, Vroeger Firma J. de Lange, 1899), by J. de Hullu
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The English Church in the Sixteenth Century, From the Accession of Henry VIII to the Death of Mary (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., reprinted 1924), by James Gairdner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Faithful Unto Death: An Account of the Sufferings of the English Franciscans During the 16th and 17th Centuries, From Contemporary Records (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1892), by J. M. Stone, contrib. by John Morris (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historia delle Guerre Civili di Francia, by Arrigo Caterino Davila (multiple editions)

• Rise and Growth of the Anglican Schism (London: Burns and Oates, 1877), by Nicholas Sander and Edward Rishton, ed. by David Lewis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey (Boston and New York; Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1905), by George Cavendish, illust. by Hans Holbein (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (London: Printed for R. Blamire, 1784), by William Gilpin (multiple formats at Google)

• Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice: Coins and Moneys of Account (this volume originally published 1985 (second volume published under a different title); open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Frederic Chapin Lane and Reinhold C. Mueller (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries, by Albrecht Dürer, trans. by Rudolf Tombo (Gutenberg text)

• Zelotti's Epic Frescoes at Cataio: The Obizzi Saga (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), by Irma B. Jaffe, contrib. by Gernando Colombardo (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Ballads of the Lords of New Spain: The Codex Romances de los Señores de la Nueva España (in Nahuatl and English; Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009), trans. by John Bierhorst (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Arcadia: Secondo i Manoscritti e Le Prime Stampe (in Italian; Turin et al.: E. Loecher, 1888), by Jacopo Sannazaro, ed. by Michele Scherillo
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Faithful Unto Death: An Account of the Sufferings of the English Franciscans During the 16th and 17th Centuries, From Contemporary Records (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1892), by J. M. Stone, contrib. by John Morris (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Group Portraiture of Holland (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1999), by Alois Riegl, trans. by Evelyn Kain and David Britt, contrib. by Wolfgang Kemp (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• The Elizabethan Homilies 1623, ed. by Ian Lancashire (HTML at Toronto)
• The Arraignment and Conviction of Usurie (London, 1595), by Miles Mosse (page images at Penn)
• A Swete and Devoute Sermon of Holy Saynt Ciprian of Mortalitie of Man; The Rules of a Christian Lyfe Made by Picus Erle of Mirandula: Bothe Translated Into Englyshe by Syr Thomas Elyot, Knyghte (London: T. Bertheleti, 1534), by Saint Cyprian and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, trans. by Thomas Elyot (at name.umdl.umich.edu)
• This Treatyse Concernynge the Fruytfull Saynges of David the Kynge and Prophete in the Seven Penytencyall Psalmes: Devyded in Seven Sermons (London: W. de Worde, 1509), by John Fisher (multiple formats at archive.org)

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