Start with high-confidence renaissance ya books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Nine Days a Queen
Ann Rinaldi
The Burgermeister's Daughter
Steven Ozment
Da Vinci's Tiger
L. M. Elliott
The Smile
Charlotte Miller, Donna Jo Napoli
Doomed Queen Anne
Carolyn Meyer
Patience, Princess Catherine
The Apprentice
Pilar Molina Llorente
Daughters of Rome
Kate Quinn
Daughter of Venice
Donna Jo Napoli
Anna of Byzantium
Tracy Barrett
Prince of Shadows
Rachel Caine, Kyle McCarley
The Wild Queen
The Bad Queen
Everything Is Poison
Joy McCullough
The Vanishing Point
Louise Hawes
Queen's Own Fool
Jane Yolen, Robert Harris
The Other Boleyn Girl
Vanessa Kirby, Philippa Gregory
The Queen's Fool
Philippa Gregory
Medici Heist
Sara Alexander, Caitlin Schneiderhan
Maria and the Plague
Natasha Bacchus-Buschkiel, Francesca Ficorilli
Ophelia
Lisa Klein
