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The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.84 — 382,125 ratings — published 1532
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,816,424 ratings — published 1590
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,047,568 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,017,343 ratings — published 1623
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,179 ratings — published 1999
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.94 — 577,514 ratings — published 1595
The Birth of Venus (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.81 — 99,947 ratings — published 2003
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,204 ratings — published 1860
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.87 — 35,163 ratings — published 2011
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 237,030 ratings — published 1605
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 226,911 ratings — published 1611
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 435,853 ratings — published 1603
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 304,512 ratings — published 1615
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.55 — 82,831 ratings — published 1516
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 72,249 ratings — published 1588
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.77 — 202,475 ratings — published 1596
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.00 — 198,977 ratings — published 2022
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,103 ratings — published 2003
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.18 — 128,274 ratings — published 2017
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,564 ratings — published 1975
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.96 — 194,239 ratings — published 1623
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 219,004 ratings — published 1599
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.06 — 258,187 ratings — published 1598
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,299 ratings — published 1590
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.86 — 182,123 ratings — published 1667
Praise of Folly (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,326 ratings — published 1508
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.09 — 96,618 ratings — published 1961
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.09 — 171,849 ratings — published 1320
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.88 — 43,517 ratings — published 1349
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.85 — 39,102 ratings — published 2002
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 58,394 ratings — published 1593
Blood & Beauty (The Borgias #1)
by (shelved 58 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.70 — 11,655 ratings — published 2013
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 180,348 ratings — published 1593
The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,880 ratings — published 2011
In the Company of the Courtesan (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 25,967 ratings — published 2006
As You Like It (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.81 — 88,826 ratings — published 1599
The Book of the Courtier (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,803 ratings — published 1528
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,032 ratings — published 1580
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,225 ratings — published 1532
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 43,739 ratings — published 1606
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.83 — 12,858 ratings — published 1992
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.85 — 53,087 ratings — published 1599
The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,917 ratings — published 2008
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 205,658 ratings — published 1321
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,548 ratings — published 1558
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.25 — 112,327 ratings — published 1609
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.72 — 4,687 ratings — published 2004
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,544 ratings — published 2003
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.77 — 33,127 ratings — published 1550
Titus Andronicus (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.67 — 34,295 ratings — published 1594
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