The Italian Renaissance

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The Prince
The Prince 3.84 avg rating — 371,407 ratings
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The Birth of Venus
The Birth of Venus 3.81 avg rating — 99,474 ratings
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
by: Ross King
3.91 avg rating — 27,850 ratings
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The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall 3.87 avg rating — 8,388 ratings
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The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici
The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici 4.07 avg rating — 2,809 ratings
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The Decameron
The Decameron 3.88 avg rating — 42,707 ratings
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern 3.87 avg rating — 34,486 ratings
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
The Agony and the Ecstasy 4.09 avg rating — 93,730 ratings
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love 3.75 avg rating — 30,046 ratings
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The Lives of the Artists
The Lives of the Artists 3.77 avg rating — 32,498 ratings
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy 3.72 avg rating — 4,657 ratings
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The Divine Comedy I: Hell
The Divine Comedy I: Hell 4.03 avg rating — 200,505 ratings
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The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance 4.10 avg rating — 4,792 ratings
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Leonardo and the Last Supper
Leonardo and the Last Supper
by: Ross King
3.93 avg rating — 2,983 ratings
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In the Company of the Courtesan
In the Company of the Courtesan 3.79 avg rating — 25,811 ratings
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The Passion of Artemisia
The Passion of Artemisia 3.91 avg rating — 19,784 ratings
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy 3.93 avg rating — 3,148 ratings
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Sacred Hearts
Sacred Hearts 3.79 avg rating — 13,364 ratings
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The Serpent and the Pearl (The Borgias, #1)
The Serpent and the Pearl (The Borgias, #1) 3.96 avg rating — 5,599 ratings
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The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped 3.97 avg rating — 1,281 ratings
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The Book of the Courtier
The Book of the Courtier 3.61 avg rating — 2,745 ratings
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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France 3.96 avg rating — 8,375 ratings
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Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici
Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici 4.06 avg rating — 960 ratings
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Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings
Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings 4.30 avg rating — 11,118 ratings
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Leonardo's Swans
Leonardo's Swans 3.73 avg rating — 6,263 ratings
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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller 4.01 avg rating — 6,663 ratings
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Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's
Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's 3.99 avg rating — 2,423 ratings
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Venice: Pure City
Venice: Pure City 3.60 avg rating — 1,399 ratings
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The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519
The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 3.74 avg rating — 2,897 ratings
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The Borgia Confessions
The Borgia Confessions 3.82 avg rating — 914 ratings
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Blood & Beauty (The Borgias #1)
Blood & Beauty (The Borgias #1) 3.70 avg rating — 11,525 ratings
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Galileo
Galileo 3.66 avg rating — 18,229 ratings
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Paradiso (The Divine Comedy, #3)
Paradiso (The Divine Comedy, #3) 3.96 avg rating — 21,302 ratings
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The Borgias
The Borgias 3.59 avg rating — 2,220 ratings
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The Essential Galileo
The Essential Galileo 3.82 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
by: Ross King
3.84 avg rating — 38,395 ratings
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Sexuality and Its Impact on History: The British Stripped Bare
Sexuality and Its Impact on History: The British Stripped Bare 4.17 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Renaissance (The Story of Civilization, #5)
The Renaissance (The Story of Civilization, #5) 4.26 avg rating — 1,317 ratings
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Florence: Art and Architecture
Florence: Art and Architecture 4.11 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci 4.19 avg rating — 122,271 ratings
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Murder of a Medici Princess
Murder of a Medici Princess 3.94 avg rating — 1,333 ratings
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Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope
Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope 3.94 avg rating — 1,761 ratings
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Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics
Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics 4.08 avg rating — 316 ratings
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Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy 4.07 avg rating — 9,584 ratings
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Cesare Borgia: His Life and Times
Cesare Borgia: His Life and Times 4.29 avg rating — 311 ratings
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Art in Renaissance Italy
Art in Renaissance Italy 4.26 avg rating — 448 ratings
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The Art of the Italian Renaissance: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Drawing
The Art of the Italian Renaissance: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Drawing 4.23 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Botticelli
Botticelli 4.34 avg rating — 657 ratings
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Giotto: The Scrovegni Chapel, Padua
Giotto: The Scrovegni Chapel, Padua 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Art and Architecture in Italy, 1250-1400
Art and Architecture in Italy, 1250-1400 3.67 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Pontifex Maximus: A Short History of the Popes
Pontifex Maximus: A Short History of the Popes 3.91 avg rating — 129 ratings
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The Malice of Fortune
The Malice of Fortune 3.21 avg rating — 1,732 ratings
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The Daughter of Siena
The Daughter of Siena 3.77 avg rating — 3,268 ratings
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The Marriage Portrait
The Marriage Portrait 4.01 avg rating — 187,124 ratings
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The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty
The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty 3.38 avg rating — 851 ratings
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The Borgia Bride
The Borgia Bride 3.86 avg rating — 11,135 ratings
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The Borgias: The Hidden History
The Borgias: The Hidden History 3.80 avg rating — 2,399 ratings
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Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
by: Dan Brown
3.90 avg rating — 580,867 ratings
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Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy 3.68 avg rating — 911 ratings
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The Kings' Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin
The Kings' Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin 3.78 avg rating — 544 ratings
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Machiavelli: A Biography
Machiavelli: A Biography 4.13 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Vita Nuova
Vita Nuova 3.88 avg rating — 8,350 ratings
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Famous Women
Famous Women 3.37 avg rating — 163 ratings
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The Divine Comedy II: Purgatory
The Divine Comedy II: Purgatory 4.05 avg rating — 29,177 ratings
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The Enchantress of Florence
The Enchantress of Florence 3.61 avg rating — 19,304 ratings
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Catherine De' Medici
Catherine De' Medici 3.40 avg rating — 614 ratings
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The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry 3.93 avg rating — 1,703 ratings
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Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna
Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna 3.83 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power
Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power
by: Ross King
3.75 avg rating — 657 ratings
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The Renaissance: A Short History
The Renaissance: A Short History 3.67 avg rating — 938 ratings
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Catherine de Medici 1-3: Madame Serpent/The Italian Woman/Queen Jezebel
Catherine de Medici 1-3: Madame Serpent/The Italian Woman/Queen Jezebel 4.30 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Titian
Titian 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Masterpieces of the Uffizi
Masterpieces of the Uffizi really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Medici Letters: The Secret Origins of the Renaissance
The Medici Letters: The Secret Origins of the Renaissance 3.91 avg rating — 358 ratings
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I, Mona Lisa
I, Mona Lisa 3.86 avg rating — 8,603 ratings
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Le Turquetto
Le Turquetto 3.77 avg rating — 403 ratings
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Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent
Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent 3.72 avg rating — 266 ratings
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The Lion and the Rose (The Borgias, #2)
The Lion and the Rose (The Borgias, #2) 4.19 avg rating — 3,747 ratings
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A Tabernacle for the Sun (The Botticelli Trilogy, #1)
A Tabernacle for the Sun (The Botticelli Trilogy, #1) 4.24 avg rating — 128 ratings
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The Shepherdess of Siena
The Shepherdess of Siena 4.08 avg rating — 2,399 ratings
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Florence: The Biography of a City
Florence: The Biography of a City 3.87 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Oil and Marble
Oil and Marble 4.08 avg rating — 11,198 ratings
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The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence: A Story of Botticelli
The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence: A Story of Botticelli 3.82 avg rating — 1,419 ratings
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini 3.98 avg rating — 3,496 ratings
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The Magicians of Caprona (Chrestomanci, #4)
The Magicians of Caprona (Chrestomanci, #4) 3.93 avg rating — 13,419 ratings
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De goddelijke komedie
De goddelijke komedie 4.08 avg rating — 167,102 ratings
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The Smile
The Smile 3.77 avg rating — 1,895 ratings
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The Botticelli Secret
The Botticelli Secret 3.89 avg rating — 6,153 ratings
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Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City
Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City 3.92 avg rating — 818 ratings
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Le Rêve Botticelli
Le Rêve Botticelli 3.76 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Signora da Vinci
Signora da Vinci 3.90 avg rating — 3,009 ratings
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La Passion Lippi
La Passion Lippi 3.66 avg rating — 182 ratings
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In the Name of the Family (The Borgias, #2)
In the Name of the Family (The Borgias, #2) 3.79 avg rating — 4,110 ratings
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The Vatican Princess: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia
The Vatican Princess: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia 3.91 avg rating — 5,362 ratings
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The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice
The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice 3.85 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican 4.07 avg rating — 1,281 ratings
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A Defense of Poesie
A Defense of Poesie 3.63 avg rating — 2,179 ratings
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Lucrèce Borgia
Lucrèce Borgia 3.78 avg rating — 1,295 ratings
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The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence
The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
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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 3.77 avg rating — 312 ratings
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