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
Perspective(s)
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
Costanza
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
Florenzer
A Poisoner's Tale
Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
The King's Pleasure (Tudor Rose, #2)
Disobedient
The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I (Tudor Rose, #3)
What Dreams May Come (Daughter of Montague)
The Stolen Lady
The Tower
How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity
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 Tempest
Othello
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
Don Quixote
Utopia
The Nature of Things by Rhuddem GwelinQueen B by Juno  DawsonGuardian of the Vision by Irene RadfordThe Plague of Quentaris by Gary CrewThe Wrathful Traveller by Rhuddem Gwelin
Renaissance and Tudor Fantasy 2.
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Renaissance and Tudor Fantasy.
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The Trigger by Tim ButcherPontifex Maximus by Christopher LascellesThe Civilization of the Middle Ages by Norman F. CantorTexas by Jack KnoxGates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
Books I want to read on history
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Mary, Teen of Scots
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. -Leonardo Da Vinci
Oliver Bowden, Renaissance

Marsilio Ficino
The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.
Marsilio Ficino

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