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The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.84 — 404,851 ratings — published 1513
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,903,661 ratings — published 1590
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,098,492 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,063,048 ratings — published 1623
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 29,353 ratings — published 1999
The Birth of Venus (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.82 — 100,960 ratings — published 2003
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.94 — 597,187 ratings — published 1595
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.88 — 36,341 ratings — published 2011
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,275 ratings — published 1860
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 245,441 ratings — published 1605
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,507 ratings — published 2003
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.92 — 317,512 ratings — published 1605
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 451,539 ratings — published 1603
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 236,273 ratings — published 1611
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.55 — 86,543 ratings — published 1516
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.17 — 139,949 ratings — published 2017
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall ― A History of the Medici Dynasty and Its Influence on Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,877 ratings — published 1975
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 74,651 ratings — published 1588
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.01 — 226,614 ratings — published 2022
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.77 — 208,740 ratings — published 1596
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.96 — 199,393 ratings — published 1623
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.06 — 264,598 ratings — published 1598
Praise of Folly (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.82 — 21,309 ratings — published 1508
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.09 — 100,121 ratings — published 1961
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.88 — 44,969 ratings — published 1349
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,612 ratings — published 1590
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.72 — 227,564 ratings — published 1599
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.09 — 181,360 ratings — published 1304
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.86 — 189,974 ratings — published 1667
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.87 — 41,303 ratings — published 2002
The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,013 ratings — published 2011
Blood & Beauty (The Borgias #1)
by (shelved 61 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 11,998 ratings — published 2013
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.90 — 60,885 ratings — published 1592
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 — 13,155 ratings — published 1992
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.73 — 184,698 ratings — published 1593
In the Company of the Courtesan (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 26,660 ratings — published 2006
The Book of the Courtier (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,913 ratings — published 1528
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,607 ratings — published 1532
As You Like It (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.81 — 92,011 ratings — published 1599
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,905 ratings — published 1580
The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,975 ratings — published 2008
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 52 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 214,836 ratings — published 1321
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.84 — 54,824 ratings — published 1599
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 45,764 ratings — published 1606
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,487 ratings — published 2021
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,640 ratings — published 1558
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,752 ratings — published 2004
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,799 ratings — published 2003
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.79 — 35,455 ratings — published 1550
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.25 — 115,811 ratings — published 1609
“An exciting minute-by-minute story of the English Civil War … from the soldier’s point of view … the historical accuracy is fantastic … the storyline and writing style tremendously exciting." - God's Vindictive Wrath by Charles Cordell”
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“There was a time in the ancient world - a very long time - in which the central cultural problem must have seemed an inexhaustible outpouring of books. Where to put them all? How to organize them on the groaning shelves? How to hold the profusion of knowledge in one's head? The loss of this plenitude would have been virtually inconceivable to anyone living in its midst.
Then, not all at once but with the cumulative force of a mass extinction, the whole enterprise came to an end. What looked stable turned out to be fragile, and what had seemed for all time was only for the time being.”
― The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Then, not all at once but with the cumulative force of a mass extinction, the whole enterprise came to an end. What looked stable turned out to be fragile, and what had seemed for all time was only for the time being.”
― The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
