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Othello
William Shakespeare
1603
★ 9.0
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
1776
★ 8.8
The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli
1532
★ 8.5
The Leopard
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
1958
★ 8.4
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
1597
★ 8.1
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
1929
★ 8.0
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
1980
★ 7.7
The Annals
Tacitus
117
★ 7.6
The Odes of Horace
Horace
23 BC
★ 7.5
The City of God
Saint Augustine
426
★ 7.5
The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
1353
★ 7.5
The Poems of Catullus
Catullus
54 BC
★ 7.4
On Duties (De Officiis)
Cicero
44 BC
★ 7.4
The Lives of the Artists
Giorgio Vasari
1550
★ 7.3
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Jacob Burckhardt
1860
★ 7.3
The Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni
1827
★ 7.2
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
1598
★ 7.2
The History of Rome
Livy
25 BC
★ 7.2
Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare
1599
★ 7.2
The Twelve Caesars
Suetonius
121
★ 7.2
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