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The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.84 — 401,552 ratings — published 1513
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,893,823 ratings — published 1590
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,092,290 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,057,725 ratings — published 1623
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,789 ratings — published 1999
The Birth of Venus (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.82 — 100,755 ratings — published 2003
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.94 — 594,579 ratings — published 1595
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.88 — 36,193 ratings — published 2011
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,267 ratings — published 1860
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 244,173 ratings — published 1605
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,442 ratings — published 2003
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.92 — 315,088 ratings — published 1605
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 234,941 ratings — published 1611
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 449,278 ratings — published 1603
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.55 — 85,989 ratings — published 1516
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.17 — 136,956 ratings — published 2017
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,838 ratings — published 1975
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 74,235 ratings — published 1588
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.01 — 222,913 ratings — published 2022
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,645 ratings — published 1596
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.96 — 198,664 ratings — published 1623
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.06 — 263,672 ratings — published 1598
Praise of Folly (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.82 — 21,158 ratings — published 1508
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.88 — 44,737 ratings — published 1349
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.09 — 99,766 ratings — published 1961
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,534 ratings — published 1590
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.72 — 226,271 ratings — published 1599
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.86 — 188,606 ratings — published 1667
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.09 — 179,974 ratings — published 1304
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.86 — 40,190 ratings — published 2002
The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,974 ratings — published 2011
Blood & Beauty (The Borgias #1)
by (shelved 61 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 11,921 ratings — published 2013
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.73 — 184,065 ratings — published 1593
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 60,470 ratings — published 1593
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.82 — 13,119 ratings — published 1992
The Book of the Courtier (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,899 ratings — published 1528
In the Company of the Courtesan (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 26,599 ratings — published 2006
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,547 ratings — published 1532
As You Like It (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.81 — 91,488 ratings — published 1599
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,762 ratings — published 1580
The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,973 ratings — published 2008
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.84 — 54,520 ratings — published 1599
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 45,431 ratings — published 1606
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 213,459 ratings — published 1321
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,462 ratings — published 2021
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,626 ratings — published 1558
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,727 ratings — published 2004
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,747 ratings — published 2003
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 34,194 ratings — published 1550
The Discourses (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.08 — 10,063 ratings — published 1517
“In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.”
― The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
― The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
“During periods of root expansion things have always looked as confused and topsy-turvy and purposeless as they do now. The whole Renaissance is supposed to have resulted from the topsy-turvy feeling caused by Columbus’ discovery of a new world. It just shook people up. The topsy-turviness of that time is recorded everywhere. There was nothing in the flat-earth views of the Old and New Testaments that predicted it. Yet people couldn’t deny it. The only way they could assimilate it was to abandon the entire medieval outlook and enter into a new expansion of reason.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
