Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period in Europe, from the 14th to the 17th century, considered the bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history. It started as a cultural movement in Italy in the Late Medieval period and later spread to the rest of Europe, marking the beginning of the Early Modern Age.

The Marriage Portrait
The King's Witches
Teach the Torches to Burn (Daughter of Montague)
Thus With a Kiss I Die (Daughter of Montague, #2)
Perspective(s)
Book of Forbidden Words
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
Costanza
Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
Three Fires
Florenzer
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World
What Dreams May Come (Daughter of Montague)
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
The Prince
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Macbeth: Moment by Moment
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
The Birth of Venus
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
King Lear
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
Don Quixote
Othello
The Tempest
Utopia
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondMath Jokes by Ralph LaneThe Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. FeynmanThe Lessons of History by Will DurantSapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Polymath's Library
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Dr. Faustus by Christopher MarloweEdward II by Christopher MarloweThe Complete Poems by Ben JonsonThe Complete Plays by Christopher MarloweThe Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
Shakespeare's Contemporaries
106 books — 28 voters
Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa GregoryThe Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
Fiction Set in 16th Century
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My Lady Jane by Cynthia HandWitchfall by Victoria LambMary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn MeyerBeware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn MeyerElizabeth I by Kathryn Lasky
YA & Middle Grade Tudor Fiction
132 books — 47 voters
Pleyn Delit by Sharon ButlerThe Medieval Kitchen by Odile RedonCookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by ApiciusThe Little House Cookbook by Barbara M. WalkerMrs Beeton's Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton
Historical Cookery
323 books — 85 voters

Frithjof Schuon
“ Such was also the case with Nietzsche, a volcanic genius if ever there was one. Here, too, there is passionate exteriorization of an inward fire, but in a manner that is both deviated and demented; we have in mind here, not the Nietzschian philosophy, which taken literally is without interest, but his poetical work, whose most intense expression is in part his ‘Zarathustra’. What this highly uneven book manifests above all is the violent reaction of an a priori profound soul against a mediocre a ...more ”
― Frithjof Schuon, To Have a Center

“ Man is a creature of indeterminate nature. ”
― Pico Della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man

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