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The Prince The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.84 — 378,274 ratings — published 1513
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Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,797,219 ratings — published 1590
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Hamlet Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,036,379 ratings — published 1601
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Macbeth Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,007,253 ratings — published 1623
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture 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
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The Birth of Venus The Birth of Venus (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.81 — 99,809 ratings — published 2003
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.94 — 574,179 ratings — published 1595
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,184 ratings — published 1860
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.87 — 34,969 ratings — published 2011
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King Lear King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 235,419 ratings — published 1605
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The Tempest The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 225,173 ratings — published 1611
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Othello Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 432,822 ratings — published 1603
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Don Quixote Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 301,964 ratings — published 1615
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Utopia Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.55 — 82,015 ratings — published 1516
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Dr. Faustus Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 71,835 ratings — published 1588
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The Merchant of Venice The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 201,272 ratings — published 1596
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Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.18 — 126,172 ratings — published 2017
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The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,520 ratings — published 1975
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The Marriage Portrait The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.00 — 195,071 ratings — published 2022
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The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,023 ratings — published 2003
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Twelfth Night Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.96 — 193,142 ratings — published 1623
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Julius Caesar Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 217,587 ratings — published 1599
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Much Ado About Nothing Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.06 — 256,959 ratings — published 1598
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Paradise Lost Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.85 — 180,381 ratings — published 1667
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The Faerie Queene The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,249 ratings — published 1590
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The Agony and the Ecstasy The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.09 — 95,667 ratings — published 1961
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Praise of Folly Praise of Folly (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,145 ratings — published 1508
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.08 — 170,120 ratings — published 1320
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The Decameron The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.88 — 43,207 ratings — published 1349
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Richard III Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 58,018 ratings — published 1593
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.85 — 38,904 ratings — published 2002
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Blood & Beauty (The Borgias #1) Blood & Beauty (The Borgias #1)
by (shelved 57 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.70 — 11,626 ratings — published 2013
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In the Company of the Courtesan In the Company of the Courtesan (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 25,924 ratings — published 2006
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The Taming of the Shrew The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 179,645 ratings — published 1593
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As You Like It As You Like It (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.81 — 88,331 ratings — published 1599
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The Book of the Courtier The Book of the Courtier (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,777 ratings — published 1528
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The Complete Essays The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.23 — 21,852 ratings — published 1580
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Gargantua and Pantagruel Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,155 ratings — published 1532
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Antony and Cleopatra Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 43,336 ratings — published 1606
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Henry V Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.85 — 52,814 ratings — published 1599
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The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,913 ratings — published 2008
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age 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
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Inferno Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 203,796 ratings — published 1321
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,521 ratings — published 1558
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy 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
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Shakespeare's Sonnets Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.25 — 111,707 ratings — published 1609
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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,493 ratings — published 2003
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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 230,923 ratings — published 2009
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The Lives of the Artists The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.77 — 32,923 ratings — published 1550
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“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.”
Sylvan Barnet

Stephen Greenblatt
“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.”
Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

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