📚 Renaissance

Books with renaissance on their catalogue record, first published between 1533 and 2011, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject renaissance in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 23,630 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Renaissance in Italy	John Addington Symonds	1875	93
	Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien	Jacob Burckhardt	1860	79
	Meus Artigos	Jacob Burckhardt	1838	53
	Histoire universelle	Cesare Cantù	1984	35
	A World Lit Only by Fire	William Manchester	1991	23
	The Story of Civilization VI	Will Durant	1957	21
	De Occulta Philosophia	Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim	1533	19
	Future (DK Eyewitness Books)	Michael Tambini	1995	18
	Machiavelli & the Renaissance	Federico Chabod	1958	17
	Brunelleschi's dome	Ross King	2000	13
	Isabella d'Este, marchioness of Mantua, 1474-1539	Ady, Julia Mary Cartwright	1903	11
	The Renaissance	Edith Helen Sichel	1914	11
	Studies in iconology	Erwin Panofsky	1939	11
	Die Kunst der italianischen Renaissance	Rolf Toman	1995	11
	Renaissance diplomacy	Garrett Mattingly	1955	10
	Symbolic images	E. H. Gombrich	1972	10
	Tigress of Forli	Elizabeth Lev	2011	10
	You wouldn't want to be a crusader!	Fiona MacDonald	2005	9
	Renaissance fancies and studies	Vernon Lee	1895	8
	Caesar Borgia	John Leslie Garner	1912	8
	Horizon book of the Renaissance	J. H. Plumb	1961	8
	Norm and form	E. H. Gombrich	1966	8
	Painting and experience in fifteenth century Italy	Michael Baxandall	1972	8
	Studies in the Italian renaissance	Vaughan, Herbert M.	1929	7
	Pagan mysteries in the Renaissance	Edgar Wind	1958	7
	Renaissance	J. R. Hale	1965	7
	Northern Renaissance art	James Snyder	1984	7
	The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy	James Hankins	2007	7
	The Italian Renaissance in its historical background	Hay, Denys.	1961	6
	The Renaissance	Peter Burke	1964	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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