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The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.84 — 397,355 ratings — published 1513
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,878,265 ratings — published 1590
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,083,327 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,049,100 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 — 590,239 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 — 242,573 ratings — published 1605
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 446,703 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 — 313,022 ratings — published 1605
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.17 — 134,470 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 — 217,524 ratings — published 2022
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.96 — 197,673 ratings — published 1623
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.06 — 262,544 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 — 187,172 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 — 178,139 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 — 54,328 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 — 211,777 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
“A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation - characterizes Montaigne's restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes's chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo's depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo's sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio's loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ's feet.”
― The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
― The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
“Whose little boy are you?”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
