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Renaissance Studies Books
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 36,233 ratings — published 2011
Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.80 — 358 ratings — published 1996
Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 521 ratings — published 1981
Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 927 ratings — published 2011
Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man and his Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 251 ratings — published 1998
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,351 ratings — published 2009
Savonarola: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 56 ratings — published 2007
Raphael: A Passionate Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 121 ratings — published 2006
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,846 ratings — published 1975
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 19 ratings — published
Praise of Folly (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.82 — 21,191 ratings — published 1508
The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.40 — 918 ratings — published 2013
The Italian Renaissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.70 — 355 ratings — published 1972
Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,000 ratings — published 2008
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 44,804 ratings — published 1349
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,455 ratings — published 1964
Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.87 — 956 ratings — published 2006
The Borgias: The Hidden History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,492 ratings — published 2013
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,925 ratings — published 1999
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 40,509 ratings — published 2002
Leonardo and the Last Supper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,137 ratings — published 2012
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,270 ratings — published 1860
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,063 ratings — published 2011
Erasmus, Man of Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.69 — 16 ratings — published 1993
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,104 ratings — published 2025
The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,113 ratings — published 2019
Montaigne (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,823 ratings — published 1941
Radical Platonism in Byzantium: Illumination and Utopia in Gemistos Plethon (Cambridge Classical Studies)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 15 ratings — published 2011
Sir Walter Ralegh: The Renaissance Man and His Roles (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 398 ratings — published 2015
Short History of English Renaissance Drama, A (Short Histories)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.59 — 27 ratings — published 2012
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,854 ratings — published 2010
She Speaks!: What Shakespeare's Women Might Have Said (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 377 ratings — published 2024
How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,426 ratings — published 2023
Aemilia Lanyer as Shakespeare’s Co-Author (Routledge Studies in Shakespeare)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Catherine de' Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.79 — 320 ratings — published
Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,433 ratings — published 2022
Women Players in England, 1500–1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2005
The Marlowe Papers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.68 — 576 ratings — published 2012
The Life of Thomas More (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,222 ratings — published 1998
A Preface to Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,901 ratings — published 1942
This Isle Is Full Of Monsters: Shakespeare's Audiences and the Supernatural (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.78 — 9 ratings — published
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,865 ratings — published 2023
The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210–1685 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 36 ratings — published 2006
Raphael: Sublime Poetry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.57 — 7 ratings — published
Leon Battista Alberti: Writer and Humanist (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Beloved Son Felix: Coming of Age in the Renaissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 125 ratings — published 2026
Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.54 — 349 ratings — published 2006
In the Scholar’s Workshop: Hidden Histories of Collaboration and Authorship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as renaissance-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,179 ratings — published 2013