Jabarkan Biografi dari Rudolf II, Kaisar Romawi Suci

Rudolf lahir di Vienna pada 18 Juli 1552. Ia adalah putra sulung dan penerus dari Maximilian II, Kaisar Romawi Suci, Raja Bohemia, dan Raja Hungaria dan Kroasia; ibunya adalah Maria dari Spanyol, seorang putri dari Charles V dan Isabella dari Portugal.

Bolton, Henry Carrington (1904). The Follies of Science at the Court of Rudolph II, 1576–1612, Milwaukee: Pharmaceutical Review Publishing Co., 1904. From Internet Archive Inaccurate and misleading

Evans, R. J. W. (1953). Rudolf II and his world: A study in intellectual history, 1576–1612. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2nd ed, 1984. Considered the fundamental re-evaluation of Rudolf.

Rowse, A. L. (1977). Homosexuals in History: Ambivalence in Society, Literature and the Arts. MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 0-02-605620-8

Hotson, Howard (1999). "Rudolf II", in Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. Paul Grendler. Vol. 5. ISBN 0-684-80514-6

Marshall, Peter (2006). The Magic Circle of Rudolf II: Alchemy and Astrology in Renaissance Prague. ISBN 0-8027-1551-6. Also published as The Theatre of the World: Alchemy, Astrology and Magic in Renaissance Prague (in the UK, ISBN 0-436-20521-1; in Canada, ISBN 0-7710-5690-7); and in paperback as The Mercurial Emperor: The Magic Circle of Rudolf II in Renaissance Prague (2007) ISBN 978-1-84413-537-0. Biography, focusing on the many artists and scientists Rudolf patronized.

Trevor-Roper, Hugh; Princes and Artists, Patronage and Ideology at Four Habsburg Courts 1517–1633, Thames & Hudson, London, 1976, ISBN 0-500-23232-6

Prague during the reign of Rudolf II, karya Jacob Wisse, in Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.

Rudolf II, karya Edward Einhorn, tells the story of the latter part of Rudolf II's life.