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1) Renaissance
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Charts the spread of intellectual and artistic culture across the entire European continent, laying particular emphasis on the importance of the city as an agent of cultural innovation.
Publisher
Scribner's published in association with the Renaissance Society of America
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Contains approximately twelve hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of the history and culture of the Renaissance, covering a period that ranges from 1350 through the seventeenth century; and includes maps, genealogical tables, and a chronology.
Author
Language
English
Description
Florence, 1480: Guid'Antonio Vespucci is back in town. One man. One clue. One last chance to save the Republic.
Florentine investigator Guid'Antonio Vespucci returns to Italy from a government mission to find his dreams of peace shattered. Marauding Turks have abducted a young girl and sold her into slavery. Equally disturbing, a revered painting of the Virgin Mary is weeping in Guid'Antonio's family church. Are the tears manmade or a sign of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Armandrecounts his life starting with the ruined city he lived in as a child, and while he is there, he meets the great vampire Marius who makes him choose between the life he knows, and the mystery and immortality of the life of a vampire.
13) The prince
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Treatise on political power, statecraft, and the qualities of the ideal ruler.
Author
Series
Pelican history of art volume Z3
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"A novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici"--
Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and to devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Moderna and Regio, Lucrezia...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint. She chose paint. By the time she was seventeen, Artemisia did more than grind pigment. She was one of Rome's most talented painters, even if no one knew her name. But Rome in 1610 was a city where men took what they wanted from women, and in the aftermath of rape Artemisia faced...
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