Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period in Europe, from the 14th to the 17th century, considered the bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history. It started as a cultural movement in Italy in the Late Medieval period and later spread to the rest of Europe, marking the beginning of the Early Modern Age.

The Marriage Portrait
Perspective(s)
A Poisoner's Tale
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
Costanza
Florenzer
What Dreams May Come (Daughter of Montague)
City of Vengeance (Cesare Aldo #1)
Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity
Disobedient
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War
Thorns, Lust, and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn
Medici Heist
The Prince
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Macbeth: Moment by Moment
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
The Birth of Venus
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
King Lear
Othello
The Tempest
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
Utopia
Don Quixote
The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantBrunelleschi's Dome by Ross KingThe House of Medici by Christopher HibbertThe Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Italian Renaissance
296 books — 183 voters

Medieval Gower Stories by Ann Marie ThomasFairest by Gail Carson LevineThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Midwife's Apprentice by Karen CushmanElla Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Best Medieval/Renaissance YA Books
53 books — 19 voters
Maid of Secrets by Jennifer  McGowanWarped by Maurissa GuibordAt the Sign of the Sugared Plum by Mary HooperThe Stolen One by Suzanne CrowleyVenom by Fiona Paul
Young Adult Renaissance
100 books — 27 voters

Frithjof Schuon
Such was also the case with Nietzsche, a volcanic genius if ever there was one. Here, too, there is passionate exteriorization of an inward fire, but in a manner that is both deviated and demented; we have in mind here, not the Nietzschian philosophy, which taken literally is without interest, but his poetical work, whose most intense expression is in part his ‘Zarathustra’. What this highly uneven book manifests above all is the violent reaction of an a priori profound soul against a mediocre a ...more
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Francesco Petrarca
I feed my heart with sighs, that's all it asks, I live on tears, I think I'm born to weep; I don't complain of that, since in my state weeping is sweeter than you might believe. ...more
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