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
Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa GregoryThe Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
Fiction Set in 16th Century
167 books — 75 voters

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa GregoryWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
Best Books About Tudor England
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Queen B by Juno  DawsonGuardian of the Vision by Irene RadfordThe Plague of Quentaris by Gary CrewThe Nature of Things by Rhuddem GwelinMagic's Silken Snare by ElizaBeth Gilligan
Renaissance and Tudor Fantasy 2.
95 books — 4 voters

Mary, Queen of Scots by Kathryn LaskyThe Wild Queen by Carolyn MeyerSpy for the Queen of Scots by Theresa BreslinMy Contrary Mary by Cynthia HandThe Prophecy by Lily Blake
Mary, Teen of Scots
25 books — 19 voters

Arnold Hauser
Compare with Greek art, modern classical art is lacking in warmth and immediacy; it has a derived, retrospective, and, even in the Renaissance, a more or less classicistic character. It It is the reflection of a society which, filled with reminiscences of Roman heroism and medieval chivalry, tries to appear to be something which it is not, by following an artificially produced social and moral code, and which stylizes the whole pattern of its life in accordance with this fictitious scheme. Class ...more
Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque

Man is a creature of indeterminate nature.
Pico Della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man

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