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The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.84 — 402,110 ratings — published 1513
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,895,837 ratings — published 1590
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,093,383 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,058,606 ratings — published 1623
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,876 ratings — published 1999
The Birth of Venus (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.82 — 100,790 ratings — published 2003
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.94 — 594,968 ratings — published 1595
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.88 — 36,222 ratings — published 2011
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,269 ratings — published 1860
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 244,389 ratings — published 1605
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,457 ratings — published 2003
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.92 — 315,555 ratings — published 1605
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 235,134 ratings — published 1611
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 449,653 ratings — published 1603
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.55 — 86,074 ratings — published 1516
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.17 — 137,647 ratings — published 2017
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,842 ratings — published 1975
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 74,277 ratings — published 1588
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.01 — 223,554 ratings — published 2022
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,849 ratings — published 1596
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.96 — 198,771 ratings — published 1623
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.06 — 263,829 ratings — published 1598
Praise of Folly (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.82 — 21,187 ratings — published 1508
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.88 — 44,772 ratings — published 1349
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.09 — 99,878 ratings — published 1961
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,550 ratings — published 1590
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.72 — 226,480 ratings — published 1599
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.86 — 188,828 ratings — published 1667
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.09 — 180,191 ratings — published 1304
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.86 — 40,404 ratings — published 2002
The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,985 ratings — published 2011
Blood & Beauty (The Borgias #1)
by (shelved 61 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 11,931 ratings — published 2013
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.73 — 184,169 ratings — published 1593
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 60,537 ratings — published 1593
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.82 — 13,123 ratings — published 1992
The Book of the Courtier (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,902 ratings — published 1528
In the Company of the Courtesan (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 26,610 ratings — published 2006
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,556 ratings — published 1532
As You Like It (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.81 — 91,563 ratings — published 1599
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,782 ratings — published 1580
The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,974 ratings — published 2008
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.84 — 54,561 ratings — published 1599
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 45,501 ratings — published 1606
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 213,688 ratings — published 1321
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,468 ratings — published 2021
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,627 ratings — published 1558
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,738 ratings — published 2004
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,760 ratings — published 2003
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 34,438 ratings — published 1550
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.25 — 115,488 ratings — published 1609
“During periods of root expansion things have always looked as confused and topsy-turvy and purposeless as they do now. The whole Renaissance is supposed to have resulted from the topsy-turvy feeling caused by Columbus’ discovery of a new world. It just shook people up. The topsy-turviness of that time is recorded everywhere. There was nothing in the flat-earth views of the Old and New Testaments that predicted it. Yet people couldn’t deny it. The only way they could assimilate it was to abandon the entire medieval outlook and enter into a new expansion of reason.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“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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