Best Books on the Renaissance
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The Medici Letters: The Secret Origins of the Renaissance
by:
Taylor Buck
3.91 avg rating — 358 ratings 97. 
Stone Giant: Michelangelo's David and How He Came to Be
by:
Jane Sutcliffe
4.38 avg rating — 181 ratings 
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The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania Volume I: The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1385-1569
by:
Robert I. Frost
4.29 avg rating — 51 ratings 97. 
The Medici Letters: The Secret Origins of the Renaissance
by:
Taylor Buck
3.91 avg rating — 358 ratings 
109. 
The New Cambridge Modern History, Volume 1: The Renaissance, 1493-1520
by:
G.R. Potter
3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings 
109. 
The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance (The Cartoon History of the Universe, #3)
by:
Larry Gonick
4.31 avg rating — 2,152 ratings 109. 
King Sigismund of Poland and Martin Luther: The Reformation before Confessionalization 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
109. 
The Prince's Order (Renaissance Origins, #2)
by:
Taylor Buck
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 37 ratings 114. 
The Longman Companion to Renaissance Europe, 1390-1530
by:
Stella Fletcher
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 114. 
Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century (Peregrine Books)
by:
Yates
4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings 
114. 
Renaissance Military Memoirs: War, History and Identity, 1450-1600 (Warfare in History, 18) 3.55 avg rating — 47 ratings
119. 
Vendetta: High Art and Low Cunning at the Birth of the Renaissance
by:
Hugh Bicheno
2.71 avg rating — 21 ratings 
126. 
Elizabeth & Leicester: Power, Passion, Politics
by:
Sarah Gristwood
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,944 ratings 126. 
The Renaissance in England: Non-Dramatic Prose and Verse of the 16th Century 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
126. 
The Italian Renaissance (RSART: Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text Series) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
131. 
The Military Revolution Debate: Readings On The Military Transformation Of Early Modern Europe 3.94 avg rating — 62 ratings
137. 
The Creation of Anne Boleyn: In Search of the Tudors' Most Notorious Queen
by:
Susan Bordo
3.86 avg rating — 3,033 ratings 138. 
Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare's Theater: The Stuart Years
by:
Leeds Barroll
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings 139. 
The Seventeenth-Century Background: Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion
by:
Basil Willey
3.97 avg rating — 34 ratings 
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The Unfaithful Queen: A Novel of Henry VIII's Fifth Wife
by:
Carolly Erickson
3.41 avg rating — 1,309 ratings 
144. 
What Life Was Like at the Rebirth of Genius: Renaissance Italy, AD 1400-1550
by:
Denise Dersin
3.89 avg rating — 53 ratings 147. 
Shakespeare Studies, Volume XIV: Research, Criticism, and Reviews
by:
Leeds Barroll
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
151. 
The Art of the Italian Renaissance: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Drawing
by:
Rolf Toman
4.23 avg rating — 175 ratings 
154. 
The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
by:
Moderata Fonte
4.02 avg rating — 188 ratings 155. 
Moderata Fonte: Women and Life in Sixteenth-Century Venice really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
158. 
The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World
by:
Paul Strathern
3.79 avg rating — 215 ratings 
160. 
Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
by:
Thomas Cahill
3.80 avg rating — 1,583 ratings 
161. 
Princes of the Renaissance: The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution 4.07 avg rating — 212 ratings
163. 
Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy
by:
James Hankins
4.29 avg rating — 56 ratings 164. 
The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade
by:
John Guy
3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings 164. 
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
by:
Ross King
3.99 avg rating — 2,189 ratings 166. 
The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
by:
Paul Strathern
4.22 avg rating — 1,002 ratings 
167. 
The Measure of Man: Liberty, Virtue, and Beauty in the Florentine Renaissance 3.88 avg rating — 56 ratings
169. 
Voyages and Discoveries: Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
by:
Richard Hakluyt
3.56 avg rating — 160 ratings 169. 
The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West 3.68 avg rating — 504 ratings
171. 
Hakluyt s Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America
by:
Peter C. Mancall
3.59 avg rating — 27 ratings 
173. 
England and the Italian Renaissance: The Growth of Interest in its History and Art
by:
John R. Hale
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings 174. 
War, Culture and Society in Renaissance Venice: Essays in Honour of John Hale liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
176. 
Shakespeare's England: Life in Elizabethan & Jacobean Times
by:
R.E. Pritchard
3.68 avg rating — 66 ratings 176.
Shakespeare & the Greek romance;: A study of origins
by:
Carol Gesner
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives 3.48 avg rating — 814 ratings
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