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Renaissance History Books
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 35,614 ratings — published 2011
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,254 ratings — published 2003
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,661 ratings — published 1975
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 39,378 ratings — published 2002
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 389,087 ratings — published 1532
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,908 ratings — published 2010
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,228 ratings — published 1860
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,357 ratings — published 1999
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,039 ratings — published 1972
The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,538 ratings — published 2013
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,312 ratings — published 2009
The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,935 ratings — published 2008
The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,839 ratings — published 2016
Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,661 ratings — published 2011
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521 - 1580 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,003 ratings — published 2008
The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,899 ratings — published 2011
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,932 ratings — published 2004
April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,009 ratings — published 2003
How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,312 ratings — published 2023
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 208,647 ratings — published 2022
Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,760 ratings — published 2012
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 106,174 ratings — published 2012
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 131,580 ratings — published 2017
The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.40 — 883 ratings — published 2013
The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Advisor to Queen Elizabeth I (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 839 ratings — published 2001
How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,921 ratings — published 2015
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 15,993 ratings — published 2014
The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.66 — 756 ratings — published 2012
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 236,372 ratings — published 2009
City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,409 ratings — published 2011
Mary Queen of Scots (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 17,560 ratings — published 1969
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,649 ratings — published 2010
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 73,319 ratings — published 1992
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,411 ratings — published 2005
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,596 ratings — published 1971
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,651 ratings — published 2003
New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.57 — 462 ratings — published 2000
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,775 ratings — published 2023
The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 748 ratings — published 2021
The Borgias: Power and Fortune (Italian Histories)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,132 ratings — published 2019
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,368 ratings — published 2021
The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,456 ratings — published 2009
Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,181 ratings — published 2017
Francis I: The Maker of Modern France (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 505 ratings — published 2017
The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.41 — 47,871 ratings — published 2020
The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World – A Lively History of the Rivalry Behind Florence's Cathedral Dome (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 502 ratings — published 2002
The Habsburgs: To Rule the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,300 ratings — published 2020
Machiavelli: His Life and Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 191 ratings — published 2020
Leonardo and the Last Supper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,052 ratings — published 2012
Sacred Hearts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 13,539 ratings — published 2008
“Whatever thier individual reasons, Ippolito’s presence in Rome created a focus around which all sorts of people discontented with Alessandro’s reign might coalesce to oppose the Duke.”
― The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici
― The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici
“Giotto, the shepherd’s boy who humanized painting, paved the way for the Renaissance in art, while Nicola Pisano was doing the same for sculpture.”
― The Magnificent Century
― The Magnificent Century
