Sign in with Facebook
257 books
—
71 voters
Renaissance Books
Showing 1-50 of 8,842
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.84 — 387,226 ratings — published 1532
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,843,227 ratings — published 1590
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,064,285 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,031,699 ratings — published 1623
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,307 ratings — published 1999
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.94 — 582,836 ratings — published 1595
The Birth of Venus (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.81 — 100,137 ratings — published 2003
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,221 ratings — published 1860
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.87 — 35,514 ratings — published 2011
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 239,415 ratings — published 1605
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 229,438 ratings — published 1611
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 440,356 ratings — published 1603
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 308,353 ratings — published 1615
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.55 — 84,078 ratings — published 1516
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,222 ratings — published 2003
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 73,017 ratings — published 1588
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.18 — 130,622 ratings — published 2017
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.77 — 204,306 ratings — published 1596
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,633 ratings — published 1975
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.01 — 206,087 ratings — published 2022
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.96 — 195,951 ratings — published 1623
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.06 — 260,126 ratings — published 1598
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 221,349 ratings — published 1599
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,390 ratings — published 1590
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.86 — 184,231 ratings — published 1667
Praise of Folly (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,610 ratings — published 1508
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.09 — 97,564 ratings — published 1961
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.88 — 43,933 ratings — published 1349
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.09 — 174,558 ratings — published 1320
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.85 — 39,298 ratings — published 2002
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 59,138 ratings — published 1593
Blood & Beauty (The Borgias #1)
by (shelved 60 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.70 — 11,722 ratings — published 2013
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.73 — 181,587 ratings — published 1593
The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,890 ratings — published 2011
As You Like It (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.81 — 89,736 ratings — published 1599
In the Company of the Courtesan (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 26,037 ratings — published 2006
The Book of the Courtier (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,848 ratings — published 1528
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,339 ratings — published 1532
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.83 — 12,933 ratings — published 1992
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 44,271 ratings — published 1606
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,292 ratings — published 1580
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.84 — 53,706 ratings — published 1599
The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,930 ratings — published 2008
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 208,362 ratings — published 1321
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,570 ratings — published 1558
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,699 ratings — published 2004
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.25 — 113,127 ratings — published 1609
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,351 ratings — published 2021
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,624 ratings — published 2003
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 33,283 ratings — published 1550
“Man is a creature of indeterminate nature.”
― Oration on the Dignity of Man
― Oration on the Dignity of Man
“A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation - characterizes Montaigne's restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes's chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo's depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo's sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio's loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ's feet.”
― The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
― The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
