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The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.84 — 397,356 ratings — published 1513
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,878,275 ratings — published 1590
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,083,336 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,049,101 ratings — published 1623
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,531 ratings — published 1999
The Birth of Venus (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.82 — 100,522 ratings — published 2003
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.94 — 590,242 ratings — published 1595
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.88 — 35,979 ratings — published 2011
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,252 ratings — published 1860
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 242,574 ratings — published 1605
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 446,704 ratings — published 1603
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 233,580 ratings — published 1611
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,358 ratings — published 2003
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.55 — 85,334 ratings — published 1516
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 313,023 ratings — published 1605
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.17 — 134,471 ratings — published 2017
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,776 ratings — published 1975
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 73,835 ratings — published 1588
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,526 ratings — published 1596
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.01 — 217,526 ratings — published 2022
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.96 — 197,672 ratings — published 1623
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.06 — 262,546 ratings — published 1598
Praise of Folly (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,940 ratings — published 1508
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 224,687 ratings — published 1599
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.09 — 99,031 ratings — published 1961
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,497 ratings — published 1590
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.86 — 187,174 ratings — published 1667
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.88 — 44,478 ratings — published 1349
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.09 — 178,140 ratings — published 1320
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.85 — 39,613 ratings — published 2002
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.73 — 183,381 ratings — published 1593
Blood & Beauty (The Borgias #1)
by (shelved 61 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.70 — 11,845 ratings — published 2013
The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,952 ratings — published 2011
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 59,949 ratings — published 1593
In the Company of the Courtesan (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 26,496 ratings — published 2006
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 — 13,058 ratings — published 1992
As You Like It (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.81 — 90,821 ratings — published 1599
The Book of the Courtier (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,888 ratings — published 1528
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,613 ratings — published 1580
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,479 ratings — published 1532
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.84 — 54,329 ratings — published 1599
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 45,050 ratings — published 1606
The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,963 ratings — published 2008
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 211,778 ratings — published 1321
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,432 ratings — published 2021
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,611 ratings — published 1558
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,715 ratings — published 2004
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,708 ratings — published 2003
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.25 — 114,209 ratings — published 1609
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 33,598 ratings — published 1550
“Just as not all butterflies produce a hurricane, not all outbreaks of bubonic plague produce a Renaissance.”
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