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Remember Alberto Mio, that joyous figment of my mind that had Albrecht Dürer, Cesare Borgia and Miquel de Corella meet in Venice, in the geopolitical hothouse that was the autumn of 1494? That first Venice trip of Dürer's has long been art historic lore yet it's not verifiable; he might not have gotten farther than Lago di Garda, that one time. Which didn't stop me from throwing him, Cesare, Micheletto, Giorgione, Bellini and assorted altri together for a chance encounter that would have, ahem, consequences.

Dürer's 1505-1507 trip to Venice, however, is factual. )

Why am I telling you this?

Because, between the late summer of 1505 and late autumn of 1507, Miquel de Corella is in Florence, in the employ of the City. LOOK, I don't even have to invent this! Fact is: he's been caught, tortured, dragged before the Roman courts for a show trial, thrown into prison - and in the summer of 1506 he is in Florence, while Cesare still is in prison in Spain.

Fact.

Everything else? This all totally happened, too, in my mind. Yup.

I've been working on this tale since summer 2021, it's currently some 18K (which, for my writing habits and style, is pretty much Tolstoy-sized) and it's nowhere near finished, but if I don't start posting it soon I'll be going spare. With that, I give you...

Title: 'Il Vostro Cuore', the sequel to Alberto Mio, a work of as yet indeterminate length and quality.
Fandom: Renaissance RPF
Rating: Please heed ratings and warnings for individual chapters.
Characters: Albrecht Dürer, Miquel de Corella, Niccolò Machiavelli, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (so far)
Word count: w.i.p.
Summary: It is the summer of 1506, twelve years after the events in Alberto Mio, and times have changed: Cesare is in prison in Spain. Miquel is something not unlike alive. And Albrecht Dürer, an artist of renown, is in Italy again. He got it into his pretty curly-haired head to travel from Venice to Florence, for business and leisure.



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[personal profile] dr_zook
I'd like to share two drabble sequences with you guys. :) You can read them at AO3 or, if you'd like to engage in a different way, over at my DW journal.

Title: Love Triumphant
Characters: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Cecco | Francesco Boneri
Rating, Warning: PG-13, m/m
Word count: 200
Notes: Written for [personal profile] liriaen's prompt. They wanted, "this story about Caravaggio who's in the last throes of finishing a really important commission, and time beckons, but there's this kid in his entourage who really distracts him... in all sorts of ways... what will win out, a timely finished commission or a wild romp through Rome's night life between Ponte Sisto and Campo de' Fiori?"

Cecco licks his lips. "You’re working too hard, Messer," he drawls.

Read it at my DW, or over at AO3.



Title: A Cost Etched in Every Heart
Characters: Albrecht Dürer the Younger, Hans Baldung Grien
Rating, Warning: Gen, m/m if you squint
Word count: 400
Notes: Written for [personal profile] ermingarden. Inspired by [archiveofourown.org profile] elektra121's wonderful Pirckheimer POV story A.D. 1504, where angsty!Pirckheimer wonders about Dürer's relationship with Baldung-- well, don't we all? ;) (You don't have to read that story to make sense of mine, hopefully.)

"You don't think I could use some decent soaking?" With a dramatic flourish he sniffs at his own armpits, making a face.

Read it at my DW, or over at AO3.
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[personal profile] sweetsorcery
Creator: [personal profile] sweetsorcery
Title: Red Camellia
Rating: T
Word Count/size/length: 600
Characters/Pairings: John Keats/Percy Shelley
Notes/Warnings: none
Summary Shelley expresses his admiration for Keats with the wrong flower and at the wrong time, but matters improve after that.

Link: Red Camellia
dr_zook: (bougouereau)
[personal profile] dr_zook
Creator: [personal profile] liriaen
Title: Alberto mio
Rating: NC-17 / Mature
Word Count/size/length: 7.115
Characters: Albrecht Dürer, Cesare Borgia, Micheletto da Corella, Giorgione da Castelfranco, Giovanni Bellini and assorted others
Pairings: Albrecht Dürer/Cesare Borgia, Cesare Borgia/Michelotto da Corella (hinted)
Warnings: dub-con, violence
Summary: A provocation on piazza San Marco, a brawl in a Venetian pub - where will it ever end? In the fraught autumn of 1494, some people will learn a lot about themselves: discover new weaknesses, new strengths, and (possibly) new positions perspectives, too.
Author's Notes: There are quite a few historical incongruities which I can't be bothered to eradicate since they are the actual premises of this story (starting with the timing, because even if Albrecht *did* travel to Venice in the autumn of 1494, which isn't altogether established, he would have been there around October which, for the purposes of Cesare's (entirely fictional, of course) embassy, would have been too late. More in the footnotes at the end.

There are many brilliant lines, but if the following doesn't catch you I can't help you. :D

The church really needs reform, he thinks for all of one fleeting moment, if he can have the Cardinal of Valencia squirming and kicking underneath him. But such ideas evaporate as their tangle tightens and their bodies dissolve into one, or none, or nothing at all.
 
Link: You can read this magnificent thing over at the author's DW journal (where I humbly contributed an outtake in the comments, ahem) or over at their AO3 page!

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[personal profile] iberiandoctor
Title: "All hail, the Republic!" They built it with their hands - Jacques-Antoine Manuel/Pierre-Jean de Béranger
Author: [personal profile] iberiandoctor (jehane)
Fandom: 19th Century CE France RPF - Jacques-Antoine Manuel/Pierre-Jean de Béranger
Historical Connection in Summary: Historical RPF: this is Restoration-era France in her turbulent Bourbon period between 1815 to 1827.
Content Warnings: N/A
With thanks to: My dear [personal profile] miss_morland, for first luring me into this fandom and escorting me to Père Lachaise one perfect summer in 2018, and for betaing this manifesto, and to political aficionado [personal profile] kainosite, who is also responsible for many of the ideas and references here.

Unofficial Fandom Title: Historical Figures Buried Together in the Cemetery of Père Lachaise )
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[personal profile] impala_chick
Below are my favorite historical fics from Yuletide. One of them was my gift ♥

Fiat Justitia on AO3
Creator: Selena
Rating: Teen and Up
Word Count: 10,924
Characters/Pairings: 18th Century Frederician RPF (Frederick the Great & Wilhelmine, Frederick the Great/Hans)
Notes/Warnings: Both of the main characters are dealing with grief. Also, past filicide.
Summary: August 1730: Crown Prince Friedrich attempts to flee his abusive father and dies. His lover, Hans Hermann von Katte, escapes with Friedrich's sister Wilhelmine. Come what may, Wilhelmine is determined to avenge her brother...

Why I'm reccing it: I knew nothing about this time period before reading. This is a detailed 1700s what-if with a righteous, angry, and complex female main character, political intrigue, and a wonderful developing friendship. Plus, there is a meaningful exploration of grief and the relationship between a brother and sister.
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Allemande on AO3
Creator: Lucyemers
Rating: Teen and Up
Word Count: 1,635
Characters/Pairings: Turn (TV 2014), Benjamin Tallmadge/Caleb Brewster
Notes/Warnings: PTSD symptoms at the beginning
Summary: A Christmas party at Mount Vernon finds Ben and Caleb in the cups and in their feelings.

Why I'm reccing it: Really wonderful 1700s party details, and drunk Ben and Caleb! Singing and dancing and getting flirty! This fic gives me all the romantic winter vibes.
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L’homme qu’il n’aurait pas quitté on AO3
Creator: iberiandoctor
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 3,761
Characters/Pairings: 19th Century France RPF, Jacques-Antoine Manuel/Pierre-Jean de Béranger
Noes/Warnings: Discussions and References to War-related violence
Summary: The veteran soldier during the Three Glorious Days, and that which his devoted chansonnier— living in their quiet retreat — would have remarked upon at his side on the battlefield of power.

Why I'm reccing it: I was not familiar with either figure before reading, but I loved the contrast between the two of them and the interesting discussions about the revolution (and I learned some new things while reading). The cozy and steadfast m/m love was really lovely to read as well.
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit
People have been trying to set up a Reccing Thursday meme (like the Reading Wednesdays) and it suddenly occurred to me that we could do that here.

To start us off, here are the five most recent historical fanworks I've bookmarked (all excellent) - four historical RPF/historical RPF-based fiction (14th C & 15th C), and one Pride & Prejudice:

In myn herte have hem in reverence by [archiveofourown.org profile] brutti-ma-buoni (14th C/Katherine - Anya Seton)
(G, 1507 words. John of Gaunt/Katherine Swynford.) It is 1398 and history is about to take a different turn. A messenger arrives for the Duke of Lancaster. A choice is made.

Intriguing post-canon AU, beautifully done.


And trewe of love thise women were echoon by [archiveofourown.org profile] Lilliburlero (15th C/Shakespeare's Henry V)
(Not Rated (G), 463 words. Fluellen/Gower.) These entries were thought too recondite to include in Women in Late Medieval England and Wales: A Biographical Dictionary, eds Charlotte A. Dodd, Pamela Laredo Marlow, and Thomasine Merrick (Streweminster: Streweminster University Press, 2013). They are reproduced here in the interests of open access to research and scholarship.

I love a bit of metafiction and these historical biographical dictionary entries are lovely and much can be read between the lines.


Wrapt in a Woman's Hide by [archiveofourown.org profile] Gileonnen (15th C/Shakespeare's Henry VI)
(Teen, 1144 words. Richard III/Edward of Lancaster, George Plantagenet Duke of Clarence, Margaret of Anjou, Henry VI.) The youngest child of Richard of York is a daughter--and the women of York make good use of their marriages.

Brilliant AU of Shakespeare's Richard; it's an excellent and sharp piece that's got teeth.


past imperfect by [archiveofourown.org profile] fandomsruinedmylife (15thC/16thC)
(G, 2965 words. Henry VII/Elizabeth of York, Margaret Beaufort, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Henry VIII, Mary I, Elizabeth I, Edward VI.)or, glimpses into eight worlds where history unfolded differently thanks to an accident of birth

What it says on the tin - a well written series of fascinating alternate history vignettes, looking at what might have happened had eight different figures of the Tudor era been a different gender. (Or the patriarchy sucks, as the author says.)


Five Sons Mr and Mrs Bennet Never Had by by [archiveofourown.org profile] biichan
(G, 3929 words. Elizabeth Bennet/Fitzwilliam Darcy, Caroline Bingley, Mary Bennet, George Wickham, Lydia Bennet, Kitty Bennet.) ...for, of course, they were to have a son. This son was to join in cutting off the entail, as soon as he should be of age... (A series of what-ifs exploring in turn the possibilities had any of the Bennet girls been born male.)

Great and enjoyable exploration of what would have happened had each of the Bennet sisters been boys in turn. It's really hard to even decide on a favourite segment.


(If several of these involve genderswapping, that's because I was making a rec set for a bingo square, hence that dominating my most recent bookmarks.)


What good historical fanfic, fanart, vids, podfic (etc. etc.) do you want to shout about?

Rec them here in the comments (or link to posts at your blog), whether brand new or old favourites!


P.S. Apologies for the lateness of this week's newsletter - it follows shortly and a comm update will follow before the end of the weekend!
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit
his wonders to perform (3000 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 15th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elizabeth of York Queen of England/Henry VII of England, Margaret Beaufort & Henry VII of England
Characters: Henry VII of England, Elizabeth of York Queen of England, Margaret Beaufort, Jasper Tudor, John de la Pole Earl of Lincoln, Richard III of England
Additional Tags: Community: genprompt_bingo, Alternate Universe - Always a Different Sex, Female Henry VII
Summary: As a woman, Lady Margaret Tudor’s fate is in the hands of others – and in the hands of God, of course. And God, as everyone knows, moves in the strangest of ways.
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[personal profile] breathedout
Title: Common to the Race
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Downey films), Historical RPF
Relationships: John Watson/Mary Morstan Watson, past Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/OMC, past Sherlock Holmes/Irene Adler, Sherlock Holmes & Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes & OFC
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 9k
Tags: Post Reichenbach, Road Trip, (sort of), more like, Cross-continental meandering, Spiritualism, Debunking of Spiritualism, Denial, Grief and mourning, Disguise, Vaguely dubcon handholding, Voyeurism, Everything is fairly ACD canonical but still:, A sad ending

Summary:
July 1895.

Or, Holmes thought—unwilling, bracing himself against it, halting where he stood with his eyes screwed shut but his cursed brain would insist upon doing the thing completely—perhaps bloody Watson wanted something so desperately that this villain had hooked him, body and mind.

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[personal profile] hrj
This isn't a new story, but it's newly available for general consumption. For the 100th-episode anniversary of my lesbian history podcast, I recorded an audio version of my story "Where My Heart Goes" about Duchess Margaret of Parma and Laudomia Forteguerri in mid-16th century Italy.

Creator: Heather Rose Jones
Title: Where My Heart Goes
Rating: PG
Word Count/size/length: 5000 words
Characters/Pairings: Duchess Margaret of Parma / Laudomia Forteguerri

Audio version (The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast)
Transcript

(I hope I've done this right, it's the first story I've posted here.)
senmut: painting of the great pyramid and the Dog Star (General: Pyramid)
[personal profile] senmut
Daughters Become Sons (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ancient Egyptian RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Nefertiti of Egypt, Ankhesenamun of Egypt
Additional Tags: Drabble, Slice of Life, BAMF Women, community: 100fandoms
Series: Part 19 of 100 Fandoms Challenge
Summary:

Ankhsesenpaaten asks about the women Pharaohs.

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[personal profile] ljwrites
Les marguerites fleuriront ce soir (2156 words) by Lunatique
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: World War II RPF, 20th Century RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: virginia hall/paul goillot
Characters: Virginia Hall
Additional Tags: World War 2, French Resistance
Summary: When an Allied air drop goes wrong Virginia and her Maquis spend a much more exciting night than they had expected.
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[personal profile] ljwrites
The Dream of the God's Wife (5710 words) by Lunatique
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ancient History RPF, Ancient Egyptian RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: hatsepshut/senenmut
Characters: Senenmut, neferure, hatsepshut, Thutmose
Additional Tags: Ancient Egypt, Eighteenth Dynasty
Summary:

When Princess Neferure, only daughter of Hatsepshut the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, comes to Chief Architect Senenmut with a secret, Senenmut's relationship with the king he served all his life may be tested as never before.

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