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The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.84 — 392,840 ratings — published 1513
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,865,070 ratings — published 1590
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,076,492 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,043,241 ratings — published 1623
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,462 ratings — published 1999
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.94 — 587,349 ratings — published 1595
The Birth of Venus (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.81 — 100,375 ratings — published 2003
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.88 — 35,807 ratings — published 2011
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,243 ratings — published 1860
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 241,537 ratings — published 1605
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 231,665 ratings — published 1611
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 444,727 ratings — published 1603
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,326 ratings — published 2003
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 311,619 ratings — published 1605
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.55 — 84,892 ratings — published 1516
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 73,567 ratings — published 1588
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.17 — 133,172 ratings — published 2017
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.77 — 205,751 ratings — published 1596
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,721 ratings — published 1975
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.01 — 213,171 ratings — published 2022
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.96 — 197,090 ratings — published 1623
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.06 — 261,693 ratings — published 1598
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,459 ratings — published 1590
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 223,553 ratings — published 1599
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.86 — 186,123 ratings — published 1667
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.09 — 98,479 ratings — published 1961
Praise of Folly (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,821 ratings — published 1508
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.88 — 44,282 ratings — published 1349
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.09 — 176,745 ratings — published 1320
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.85 — 39,499 ratings — published 2002
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.73 — 182,750 ratings — published 1593
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 59,705 ratings — published 1593
Blood & Beauty (The Borgias #1)
by (shelved 60 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.70 — 11,777 ratings — published 2013
The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,926 ratings — published 2011
In the Company of the Courtesan (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 26,106 ratings — published 2006
As You Like It (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.81 — 90,451 ratings — published 1599
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.83 — 13,020 ratings — published 1992
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,433 ratings — published 1532
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,475 ratings — published 1580
The Book of the Courtier (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,865 ratings — published 1528
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 44,801 ratings — published 1606
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.84 — 54,169 ratings — published 1599
The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,948 ratings — published 2008
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 210,467 ratings — published 1321
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,599 ratings — published 1558
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.72 — 4,712 ratings — published 2004
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,401 ratings — published 2021
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,679 ratings — published 2003
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.25 — 113,717 ratings — published 1609
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 33,498 ratings — published 1550
“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. Classical art describes this society as it wants to see itself and as it wants to be seen. There is hardly a feature in this art which would not, on closer examination, prove to be anything more than the translation into artistic terms of the aristocratic, conservative ideals cherished by this society striving for permanence and continuity. The whole artistic fromalism of the Cinquecento merely corresponds to the formalized system of moral conceptions and decorum which the upper class of the period imposes on itself. Just as the aristocracy and the aristocratically minded circles of society subject life to the rule of a formal code, in order to preserve it from the anarchy of the emotions, so they also submit the expression of the emotions in art to the censorship of definite, abstract, and impersonal forms.”
― The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
― The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
“As one, they yelled the name of a princess butchered, a child locked in a barren convent, the last drifting snow of Glyndŵr. ‘Gwenllian!”
― God's Vindictive Wrath
― God's Vindictive Wrath
