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The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.84 — 378,274 ratings — published 1513
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,797,219 ratings — published 1590
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,036,379 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,007,253 ratings — published 1623
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,074 ratings — published 1999
The Birth of Venus (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.81 — 99,809 ratings — published 2003
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.94 — 574,179 ratings — published 1595
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,184 ratings — published 1860
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.87 — 34,969 ratings — published 2011
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 235,419 ratings — published 1605
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 225,173 ratings — published 1611
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 432,822 ratings — published 1603
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 301,964 ratings — published 1615
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.55 — 82,015 ratings — published 1516
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 71,835 ratings — published 1588
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 201,272 ratings — published 1596
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.18 — 126,172 ratings — published 2017
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,520 ratings — published 1975
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.00 — 195,071 ratings — published 2022
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,023 ratings — published 2003
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.96 — 193,142 ratings — published 1623
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 217,587 ratings — published 1599
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.06 — 256,959 ratings — published 1598
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.85 — 180,381 ratings — published 1667
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,249 ratings — published 1590
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.09 — 95,667 ratings — published 1961
Praise of Folly (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,145 ratings — published 1508
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.08 — 170,120 ratings — published 1320
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.88 — 43,207 ratings — published 1349
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 58,018 ratings — published 1593
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.85 — 38,904 ratings — published 2002
Blood & Beauty (The Borgias #1)
by (shelved 57 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.70 — 11,626 ratings — published 2013
In the Company of the Courtesan (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 25,924 ratings — published 2006
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 179,645 ratings — published 1593
The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,861 ratings — published 2011
As You Like It (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.81 — 88,331 ratings — published 1599
The Book of the Courtier (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,777 ratings — published 1528
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.23 — 21,852 ratings — published 1580
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,155 ratings — published 1532
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 43,336 ratings — published 1606
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.85 — 52,814 ratings — published 1599
The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,913 ratings — published 2008
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.83 — 12,815 ratings — published 1992
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 203,796 ratings — published 1321
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,521 ratings — published 1558
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
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.25 — 111,707 ratings — published 1609
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,493 ratings — published 2003
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 230,923 ratings — published 2009
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.77 — 32,923 ratings — published 1550
“Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and place, whose perspectives and insights are invariably conditioned by his immediate circumstances.”
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“There was a time in the ancient world - a very long time - in which the central cultural problem must have seemed an inexhaustible outpouring of books. Where to put them all? How to organize them on the groaning shelves? How to hold the profusion of knowledge in one's head? The loss of this plenitude would have been virtually inconceivable to anyone living in its midst.
Then, not all at once but with the cumulative force of a mass extinction, the whole enterprise came to an end. What looked stable turned out to be fragile, and what had seemed for all time was only for the time being.”
― The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Then, not all at once but with the cumulative force of a mass extinction, the whole enterprise came to an end. What looked stable turned out to be fragile, and what had seemed for all time was only for the time being.”
― The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
