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The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.84 — 380,680 ratings — published 1532
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,808,180 ratings — published 1590
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,043,438 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,013,637 ratings — published 1623
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,146 ratings — published 1999
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.94 — 576,337 ratings — published 1595
The Birth of Venus (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.81 — 99,917 ratings — published 2003
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,199 ratings — published 1860
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.87 — 35,116 ratings — published 2011
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 236,550 ratings — published 1605
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 226,399 ratings — published 1611
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 434,903 ratings — published 1603
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 303,641 ratings — published 1615
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.55 — 82,617 ratings — published 1516
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 72,158 ratings — published 1588
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.77 — 202,071 ratings — published 1596
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.18 — 127,643 ratings — published 2017
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,068 ratings — published 2003
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,546 ratings — published 1975
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.00 — 197,673 ratings — published 2022
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.96 — 193,841 ratings — published 1623
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 218,531 ratings — published 1599
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.06 — 257,789 ratings — published 1598
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.85 — 181,568 ratings — published 1667
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,289 ratings — published 1590
Praise of Folly (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,259 ratings — published 1508
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.09 — 96,446 ratings — published 1961
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.08 — 171,257 ratings — published 1320
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.88 — 43,424 ratings — published 1349
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 58,260 ratings — published 1593
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.85 — 39,065 ratings — published 2002
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 180,105 ratings — published 1593
Blood & Beauty (The Borgias #1)
by (shelved 57 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.70 — 11,644 ratings — published 2013
In the Company of the Courtesan (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 25,955 ratings — published 2006
As You Like It (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.81 — 88,674 ratings — published 1599
The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,875 ratings — published 2011
The Book of the Courtier (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,796 ratings — published 1528
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.23 — 21,975 ratings — published 1580
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,195 ratings — published 1532
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 43,610 ratings — published 1606
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.83 — 12,848 ratings — published 1992
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.85 — 52,985 ratings — published 1599
The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,914 ratings — published 2008
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 205,033 ratings — published 1321
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,540 ratings — published 1558
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.25 — 112,088 ratings — published 1609
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.72 — 4,687 ratings — published 2004
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,530 ratings — published 2003
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 33,085 ratings — published 1550
Titus Andronicus (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.67 — 34,226 ratings — published 1594
“[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.”
― Utopia
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