Sarah W.'s votes on the list Best Books on the Renaissance

Listopia > Sarah W.'s votes on the list Best Books on the Renaissance (56 Books)

1	The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt 3.88 avg rating — 35,966 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser 3.99 avg rating — 17,611 ratings Sarah rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir 4.03 avg rating — 32,931 ratings Sarah rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir 4.12 avg rating — 73,641 ratings Sarah rated it 2 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King 3.91 avg rating — 28,528 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli 3.84 avg rating — 397,152 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel 3.76 avg rating — 30,662 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt 3.93 avg rating — 3,252 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser 4.11 avg rating — 19,274 ratings Sarah rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt 3.88 avg rating — 11,015 ratings Sarah added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age by William Manchester 3.83 avg rating — 13,054 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici by Elizabeth Lev 4.08 avg rating — 2,952 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King 3.85 avg rating — 39,608 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Collected Works by Elizabeth I 4.38 avg rating — 229 ratings Sarah added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda 3.97 avg rating — 8,705 ratings Sarah rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern 4.11 avg rating — 5,353 ratings Sarah rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy by Sarah Bradford 3.73 avg rating — 4,715 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey 4.01 avg rating — 15,778 ratings Sarah rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Henry VIII: The King and His Court by Alison Weir 4.10 avg rating — 14,876 ratings Sarah rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by James Shapiro 4.08 avg rating — 4,463 ratings Sarah added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola and the Battle for the Soul of the Renaissance City by Paul Strathern 3.94 avg rating — 914 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset 4.16 avg rating — 7,084 ratings Sarah rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen by Nancy Rubin Stuart (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 141 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558 by Alison Weir 4.01 avg rating — 15,577 ratings Sarah rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King 3.93 avg rating — 3,107 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Murder of a Medici Princess by Caroline P. Murphy 3.94 avg rating — 1,358 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici by Lauro Martines 3.76 avg rating — 1,018 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna by Ramie Targoff (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 131 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Women of the Renaissance by Margaret L. King 3.66 avg rating — 76 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World – A Lively History of the Rivalry Behind Florence's Cathedral Dome by Paul Robert Walker 3.82 avg rating — 508 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance by Leonie Frieda 3.36 avg rating — 418 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King by Princess Michael of Kent 3.76 avg rating — 523 ratings Sarah rated it 2 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Borgias: The Hidden History by G.J. Meyer 3.80 avg rating — 2,475 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Elizabethan Renaissance: The Life of the Society by A.L. Rowse 3.51 avg rating — 41 ratings Sarah added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots by John Guy 3.94 avg rating — 5,615 ratings Sarah rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 by Antonia Fraser 3.87 avg rating — 1,893 ratings Sarah rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence by Lauro Martines 3.58 avg rating — 370 ratings Sarah rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Lorenzo and Giovanna: Timeless Art and Fleeting Lives in Renaissance Florence by Gert Jan van der Sman really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World by Paul Strathern 3.75 avg rating — 262 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Earthly Delights: A History of the Renaissance by Jonathan Jones 4.46 avg rating — 63 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World by Thomas Cahill 3.80 avg rating — 1,655 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Princes of the Renaissance: The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution by Mary Hollingsworth 4.05 avg rating — 237 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy by James Hankins 4.28 avg rating — 69 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance by Ross King 3.99 avg rating — 2,431 ratings Sarah rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization by Paul Strathern 4.23 avg rating — 1,247 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Machiavelli: A Biography by Miles J. Unger (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 352 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	The Measure of Man: Liberty, Virtue, and Beauty in the Florentine Renaissance by Lawrence Rothfield 3.82 avg rating — 67 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West by Catherine Fletcher (Goodreads Author) 3.68 avg rating — 571 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France by Kathleen Wellman 3.82 avg rating — 62 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story by Stanley Wells 3.97 avg rating — 388 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery by Eric Ives 4.04 avg rating — 2,854 ratings Sarah added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford by Julia Fox 3.72 avg rating — 4,334 ratings Sarah added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	The Sisters Who Would Be Queen by Leanda de Lisle (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 5,790 ratings Sarah rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings by Alison Weir 3.77 avg rating — 10,560 ratings Sarah added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici by Miles J. Unger (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 994 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Elizabeth & Leicester: Power, Passion, Politics by Sarah Gristwood (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,949 ratings Sarah rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars