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The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.84 — 398,399 ratings — published 1513
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,882,392 ratings — published 1590
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,085,484 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,050,929 ratings — published 1623
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,556 ratings — published 1999
The Birth of Venus (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.81 — 100,569 ratings — published 2003
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.94 — 591,575 ratings — published 1595
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.88 — 36,028 ratings — published 2011
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,256 ratings — published 1860
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 242,899 ratings — published 1605
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 233,934 ratings — published 1611
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.89 — 447,334 ratings — published 1603
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,374 ratings — published 2003
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 313,749 ratings — published 1605
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.55 — 85,495 ratings — published 1516
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.17 — 134,918 ratings — published 2017
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,793 ratings — published 1975
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 73,914 ratings — published 1588
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,803 ratings — published 1596
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.01 — 218,906 ratings — published 2022
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.96 — 197,976 ratings — published 1623
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.06 — 262,813 ratings — published 1598
Praise of Folly (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.82 — 21,005 ratings — published 1508
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 225,028 ratings — published 1599
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.09 — 99,204 ratings — published 1961
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.88 — 44,541 ratings — published 1349
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,515 ratings — published 1590
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.86 — 187,526 ratings — published 1667
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.09 — 178,626 ratings — published 1320
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.85 — 39,656 ratings — published 2002
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.73 — 183,543 ratings — published 1593
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.91 — 60,167 ratings — published 1593
Blood & Beauty (The Borgias #1)
by (shelved 61 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.70 — 11,869 ratings — published 2013
The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,958 ratings — published 2011
In the Company of the Courtesan (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.80 — 26,523 ratings — published 2006
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.83 — 13,066 ratings — published 1992
As You Like It (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.81 — 91,100 ratings — published 1599
The Book of the Courtier (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,892 ratings — published 1528
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,497 ratings — published 1532
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,648 ratings — published 1580
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.84 — 54,380 ratings — published 1599
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.71 — 45,123 ratings — published 1606
The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,970 ratings — published 2008
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.03 — 212,239 ratings — published 1321
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,439 ratings — published 2021
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,615 ratings — published 1558
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,718 ratings — published 2004
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,715 ratings — published 2003
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as renaissance)
avg rating 3.78 — 33,638 ratings — published 1550
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as renaissance)
avg rating 4.25 — 114,345 ratings — published 1609
“Such was also the case with Nietzsche, a volcanic genius if ever there was one. Here, too, there is passionate exteriorization of an inward fire, but in a manner that is both deviated and demented; we have in mind here, not the Nietzschian philosophy, which taken literally is without interest, but his poetical work, whose most intense expression is in part his ‘Zarathustra’. What this highly uneven book manifests above all is the violent reaction of an a priori profound soul against a mediocre and paralyzing cultural environment; Nietzsche’s fault was to have only a sense of grandeur in the absence of all intellectual discernment. ‘Zarathustra’ is basically the cry of a grandeur trodden underfoot, whence comes the heart-rending authenticity – grandeur precisely – of certain passages; not all of them, to be sure, and above all not those which express a half-Machiavellian, half-Darwinian philosophy, or minor literary cleverness. Be that as it may, Nietzsche’s misfortune, like that of other men of genius, such as Napoleon, was to be born after the Renaissance and not before it; which indicates evidently an aspect of their nature, for there is no such thing as chance.”
― To Have a Center
― To Have a Center
“The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.”
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