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Renaissance History Books

Books selected for readers looking for renaissance history books.

41 booksApril 2, 2026

Part of 470+ tracked lists·68% reader overlap with Western Books

1. The Swerve
Stephen Greenblatt
Fits this list for its focus on history and renaissance.
Shelf signal: Renaissance History
2. How to Be a Renaissance Woman
Jill Burke
Fits this list for its focus on history and renaissance.
Shelf signal: Renaissance History
3. Oil and Marble
Stephanie Storey
Fits this list for its focus on history and renaissance.
Shelf signal: Renaissance Art History
4. What Was the Renaissance?
Roberta Edwards, Who HQ
Fits this list for its focus on history and renaissance.
Shelf signal: Renaissance for Kids
5. The Renaissance: a Very Short Introduction
Jerry Brotton
Fits this list for its focus on history and renaissance.
Shelf signal: Renaissance History
6. Botticelli's Secret
Joseph Luzzi
Fits this list for its focus on renaissance.
Shelf signal: Renaissance Art History
7. The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior
Paul Strathern
Fits this list for its focus on history.
Shelf signal: Renaissance History
8. Heretics and Heroes
Thomas Cahill
Fits this list for its focus on renaissance.
Shelf signal: Renaissance History
9. Dark Renaissance
Stephen Greenblatt
Fits this list for its focus on renaissance.
Shelf signal: Tudor & Elizabethan Britain
10. The Shortest History of Italy
Ross King
Fits this list for its focus on history and renaissance.
Shelf signal: Italy Travel
11. Marvelous Solitude
Lina Bolzoni, Sylvia Greenup
Fits this list for its focus on renaissance.
Shelf signal: Italian Literary Criticism
12. The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance
Paul Robert Walker, Simon Vance
Fits this list for its focus on renaissance.
Shelf signal: Renaissance History
13. Virtue Politics
James Hankins
Fits this list for its focus on renaissance.
Shelf signal: Renaissance History
14. The Renaissance Thinkers
Diane C. Taylor
Fits this list for its focus on history and renaissance.
Shelf signal: Renaissance for Kids
15. The Innocents of Florence
Joseph Luzzi
Fits this list for its focus on renaissance.
Shelf signal: Renaissance History
16. Da Vinci's Tiger
L. M. Elliott
Fits this list for its focus on renaissance.
Shelf signal: Renaissance YA
17. Magnifico
Miles J. Unger
Fits this list for its focus on history and renaissance.
Shelf signal: Renaissance History
18. Leonardo's Shadow
Christopher Grey, Christopher Peter Grey
Fits this list for its focus on renaissance.
Shelf signal: Renaissance Art History
19. Francis I
Leonie Frieda
Fits this list for its focus on history and renaissance.
Shelf signal: Renaissance History
20. Renaissance Art Reconsidered
Carol M. Richardson, Kim W. Woods
Fits this list for its focus on renaissance.
Shelf signal: Renaissance Art History
21. Leonardo and the Last Supper
Ross King
Included for strong jesus alignment with this renaissance history list.
Shelf signal: Renaissance Art History
22. What God Kept for Himself
Umberto Grassi
Fits this list for its focus on renaissance.
Shelf signal: Renaissance History
23. Da Vinci's Ghost
Toby Lester, Stephen Hoye
Fits this list for its focus on history.
Shelf signal: Renaissance Art History
24. The Renaissance in Europe
Lynne Elliiott
Fits this list for its focus on history and renaissance.
Shelf signal: Renaissance for Kids