6 Best nonfiction books like Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art by A. Richard Turner

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Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art

By: A. Richard Turner

3.87

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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If you liked the nonfiction plot in Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art by A. Richard Turner , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Terracotta Army

By: John Man

3.64

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The Terracotta Army is one of the greatest, and most famous, archaeological discoveries of all time… read more

Similar categories in John Man's The Terracotta Army book and A. Richard Turner's Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art

  • art
  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. 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
  • art history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. 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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  • italy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"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

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4. Déjame que te cuente

By: Jorge Bucay

3.14

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Demian es un muchacho inquieto y curioso: desea saber mas sobre si mismo. Esta busqueda le conduce … read more

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5. Julius Caesar

By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill

3.70

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more

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"Et tu, Brute?"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Beware the ides of March."

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

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6. City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire

By: Roger Crowley

3.92

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from… read more

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  • italy
  • nonfiction
  • history

7. The Third Wedding

By: Costas Taktsis , Κώστας Ταχτσής

2.00

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

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8. Stoner

By: John Williams , John McGahern

4.34

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more

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"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."

-John Williams, Stoner

"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."

-John Williams, Stoner

"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."

-John Williams, Stoner

"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."

-John Williams, Stoner

9. The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)

By: Agatha Christie

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Framed in the doorway of Poirot's bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dus… read more

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10. Chess Story

By: Stefan Zweig , Joel Rotenberg , Peter Gay , None , None , None , None , None

3.00

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement,… read more

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11. Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

By: Ross King

3.26

Format: None pages,

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12. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

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13. La librería del señor Livingstone

By: Mónica Gutiérrez Artero

3.65

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Algunos lugares son un refugio en mitad de nuestras aceleradas vidas. Algunas novelas tienen la cap… read more

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"El hogar es el lugar donde guardamos los libros."

-Mónica Gutiérrez Artero, La librería del señor Livingstone

"Ser valiente es no rendirte, seguir adelante aunque estés muerto de miedo."

-Mónica Gutiérrez Artero, La librería del señor Livingstone

"El mundo sería un lugar mejor si no nos avergonzáramos de tener días entrañables."

-Mónica Gutiérrez Artero, La librería del señor Livingstone

"La despedida es un dolor tan dulce que estaría diciendo buenas noches hasta el amanecer"

-Mónica Gutiérrez Artero, La librería del señor Livingstone

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14. Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

By: Stephen Fry

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Mythos is a modern collection of Greek myths, stylishly retold by legendary writer, actor, and come… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Fry's Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1) book and A. Richard Turner's Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art

  • nonfiction
  • history
"Green fingers are better than gold."

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

"Goodness me. You don’t ask for the moon, do you?"

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

"Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable."

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

"For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite."

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

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15. Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art

By: A. Richard Turner

3.87

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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  • italy
  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • reference

6 must-read history books like Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art by A. Richard Turner

Transform Your Habits

The Terracotta Army

John Man

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall

Christopher Hibbert

3.88

Transform Your Habits

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Transform Your Habits

City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire

Roger Crowley

3.92

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13 best-selling history books like The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli, Adolph Caso, Rufus Goodwin, Benjamin Martinez

Transform Your Habits

The Art of War

Sun Tzu , Thomas Cleary

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

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Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Second Treatise of Government

John Locke , Crawford Brough Macpherson , C.B. MacPherson

3.87

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