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The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.84 — 378,305 ratings — published 1513
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,797,364 ratings — published 1590
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,036,459 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,007,332 ratings — published 1623
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,076 ratings — published 1999
The Birth of Venus (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.81 — 99,810 ratings — published 2003
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.94 — 574,201 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 — 34,973 ratings — published 2011
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 235,439 ratings — published 1605
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 225,194 ratings — published 1611
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 432,842 ratings — published 1603
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 301,980 ratings — published 1615
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.55 — 82,019 ratings — published 1516
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 71,843 ratings — published 1588
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 201,281 ratings — published 1596
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.18 — 126,169 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 — 195,099 ratings — published 2022
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,024 ratings — published 2003
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.96 — 193,157 ratings — published 1623
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 217,601 ratings — published 1599
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.06 — 256,970 ratings — published 1598
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.85 — 180,401 ratings — published 1667
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.58 — 17,250 ratings — published 1590
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.09 — 95,674 ratings — published 1961
Praise of Folly (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,147 ratings — published 1508
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.08 — 170,138 ratings — published 1320
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.88 — 43,208 ratings — published 1349
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 58,020 ratings — published 1593
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.85 — 38,908 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 — 179,649 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 — 88,332 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 — 21,856 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 — 43,341 ratings — published 1606
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.85 — 52,815 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 — 203,808 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 — 4,686 ratings — published 2004
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.25 — 111,710 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 — 230,937 ratings — published 2009
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.77 — 32,922 ratings — published 1550
“Not without deep pain do we admit to ourselves that the artists of all ages have in their highest flights carried to heavenly transfiguration precisely those conceptions that we now recognize as false: they are the glorifiers of the religious and philosophical errors of humanity, and they could not have done this without their belief in the absolute truth of these errors. Now if the belief in such truth generally diminishes, if the rainbow colors at the outermost ends of human knowing and imagining fade: then the species of art that, like the Divina commedia, Raphael's pictures, Michelangelo's frescoes, the Gothic cathedrals, presupposes not only a cosmic, but also a metaphysical significance for art objects can never blossom again. A touching tale will come of this, that there was once such an art, such belief by artists.”
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.”
― Utopia
― Utopia
