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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 34,763 ratings — published 2011
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,946 ratings — published 2003
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,473 ratings — published 1975
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 38,694 ratings — published 2002
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 375,400 ratings — published 1513
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,735 ratings — published 2010
The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,459 ratings — published 2013
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,167 ratings — published 1860
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,289 ratings — published 2009
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 27,977 ratings — published 1999
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,008 ratings — published 1972
The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,903 ratings — published 2008
The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,630 ratings — published 2016
Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,577 ratings — published 2011
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521 - 1580 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 6,769 ratings — published 2008
The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,853 ratings — published 2011
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 10,745 ratings — published 2004
April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 989 ratings — published 2003
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 191,575 ratings — published 2022
Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,654 ratings — published 2012
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 103,421 ratings — published 2012
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 124,633 ratings — published 2017
The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.39 — 859 ratings — published 2013
The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Advisor to Queen Elizabeth I (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 817 ratings — published 2001
How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,749 ratings — published 2015
The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,452 ratings — published 2015
The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.65 — 742 ratings — published 2012
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 229,572 ratings — published 2009
City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,187 ratings — published 2011
Mary Queen of Scots (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 17,378 ratings — published 1969
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,459 ratings — published 2010
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 72,433 ratings — published 1992
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,305 ratings — published 2005
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,560 ratings — published 1971
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,458 ratings — published 2003
New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.56 — 454 ratings — published 2000
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,626 ratings — published 2023
How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,105 ratings — published
The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 696 ratings — published 2021
The Borgias: Power and Fortune (Italian Histories)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,048 ratings — published 2019
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,233 ratings — published 2021
The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,396 ratings — published 2009
Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,091 ratings — published 2017
Francis I: The Maker of Modern France (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 463 ratings — published 2017
The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 45,672 ratings — published 2020
The Habsburgs: To Rule the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,944 ratings — published 2020
Machiavelli: His Life and Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 181 ratings — published 2020
Leonardo and the Last Supper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,998 ratings — published 2012
Sacred Hearts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 13,399 ratings — published 2008
Holy War: How Vasco da Gama's Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,321 ratings — published 2011
“A notable absentee at her father’s bedside had been Isabella; she could no longer attempt to guide the rule of both Mantua and Ferrara as she had been wont over the past years.”
― The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance
― The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance
“Only in political affairs is a flexible mentality necessary, while it is not needed in religious matter.”
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