Alison Brown is emerita professor in the department of history at Royal Holloway, University of London.^[1] Brown is a specialist in the history of Renaissance Italy.

Selected publications

• Bartolomeo Scala, 1430-1497, Chancellor of Florence: the humanist as bureaucrat. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1979.
• The Renaissance. London, Longman, 1988. (Seminar Studies in History)
• Language and images of Renaissance Italy. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1995. (Editor)
• Contested Space: Street Trading, Public Space, and Livelihoods in Developing Countries. Rugby, ITDG Publishing, 2006.
• The return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010.
• Medicean and Savonarolan Florence: the interplay of politics, humanism, and religion, Brepols, 2011.
• Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy, Cambridge University Press, 2020