The Renaissance in Italy: A History
By: Kenneth R. Bartlett
4.34
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The Italian Renaissance has come to occupy an almost mythical place in the popular imagination. The…
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1. The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
By: Christopher Hibbert
3.88
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
At its height, Renaissance Florence was a center of enormous wealth, power, and influence. A republ… read more
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- italy
- art
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- nonfiction
- european history
2. Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City
By: Paul Strathern
3.92
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. … read more
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- italy
- nonfiction
- history
- european history
3. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
By: Stephen R. Platt
4.23
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars i… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. Napoleon: A Life
By: Andrew Roberts
4.23
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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- nonfiction
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"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
5. Lysistrata
By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden
3.87
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more
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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
6. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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- italy
- nonfiction
- history
7. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
8. The Art of Happiness
By: Epicurus , George K. Strodach
4.19
Format: 294 pages, ebook
New to Penguin Classics and the perfect companion volume to bestselling author Daniel Klein's new b… read more
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- nonfiction
9. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.99
Format: 272 pages,
Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August--… read more
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- history
- european history
10. Leonardo da Vinci
By: Walter Isaacson
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A #1 New York Timesbestseller "A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creat… read more
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11. The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
By: Paul Strathern
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, Th… read more
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12. The Pursuit of Italy
By: David Gilmour
4.23
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Visiting a villa built by Lorenzo de Medici outside Pisa, David Gilmour fell into conversation abou… read more
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13. Metamorphoses
By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney
3.99
Format: 240 pages,
Metamorphoses (from Greek meta meta and morphe morphe, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narr… read more
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14. A History of the Arab Peoples
By: Albert Hourani
3.53
Format: 349 pages,
Encyclopedic and panoramic in its scope, this fascinating work chronicles the rich spiritual, polit… read more
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15. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more
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"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
16. Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
By: Ross King
3.26
Format: None pages,
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17. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
By: Dan Jones
4.41
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- european history
18. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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- history
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"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
19. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
By: Adam Hochschild
4.18
Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more
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- history
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"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
20. Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
By: Barry S. Strauss
3.97
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Barry Strauss tells the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention, from Augustus, who foun… read more
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- italy
- nonfiction
- history
- european history
21. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
By: Joe Posnanski
4.56
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more
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- history
22. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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- italy
- nonfiction
- history
23. The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World
By: Paul Strathern
3.83
Format: 336 pages, ebook
An original, illuminating history of the northern European Renaissance in art, science, and philoso… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- history
- european history
24. The Borgias: Power and Fortune (Italian Histories)
By: Paul Strathern
4.07
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family―a world of saints, corrupt popes, and deprav… read more
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- nonfiction
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25. Dante
By: Alessandro Barbero
3.61
Format: 361 pages, Hardcover
Alessandro Barbero ricostruisce in quest'opera la vita di Dante, il poeta creatore di un capolavoro… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
26. The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
By: Paul Strathern
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth… read more
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- art
- history
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27. Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
By: Robert D. Kaplan
3.62
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
"[An] elegantly layered exploration of Europe's past and future . . . a multifaceted masterpiece."-… read more
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- nonfiction
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28. Trajan: Rome's Last Conqueror
By: Nicholas Jackson
4.01
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Until the publication of this captivating biography, no such volume on Trajan’s life has been tailo… read more
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- history
29. The Mirror of the Gods: Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art
By: Malcolm Bull
3.73
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Perhaps the single most revolutionary aspect of the Renaissance was the re-emergence of the gods an… read more
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- art
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30. The Renaissance in Italy: A History
By: Kenneth R. Bartlett
4.34
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The Italian Renaissance has come to occupy an almost mythical place in the popular imagination. The… read more
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31. On Freedom
By: Timothy Snyder
4.40
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only c… read more
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