Amid the intrigue and danger of 18th-century Italy, a young woman becomes embroiled in romance and treachery with a rider in the Palio, the breathtaking horse race set in Siena....
It’s 1729, and the Palio, a white-knuckle horse race, is soon to be held in the heart of the peerless Tuscan...
Fortune may be blind, but misfortune sees us all too clearly—at least that's what the townspeople of Sant'Angelo d'Asso have come to believe, in this second novel by the author of Renato's Luck. The small Italian village, an hour south of Siena, has been hit with a spate of bad luck that...
Hardcover: 32 pages
Age Range: 6 - 9 years
Language: English
ISBN / Barcode: 9781580892957
No one wanted the "giant." The hulking block of marble lay in the work yard, rained on, hacked at, and abandoned until a young Michelangelo saw his David in it. This is the story of how a neglected, discarded stone became a masterpiece for all time. It is also a story about art about an...
Discover one of the most charming places on earth through the incredible pictures featured here and find out why this place is adorable by all who visit. Showing everything from familiar sights to seldom-seen vistas, "The Secrets of Tuscany" is the definitive pictorial guide to this...
Features thirty-six villages from all over Tuscany from those clustered around the great cities of Lucca and Florence, which produce some of the finest olive oil and are home to some of the world's greatest works of art, to the Chianti region and the valley of the Orcia, devoted to the cultivation...
Superbly engraved by Guiseppe Bouchard, this large and detailed plan shows the many features of urban design and civic embellishment that have attracted visitors for centuries.
In From Giotto to Botticelli, Julia Miller and Laurie Taylor-Mitchell explore the three-hundred-year rise and fall of the Humiliati (&;Humbled Ones&;), a religious order infamous for its attempt to assassinate Saint Carlo Borromeo and ultimately suppressed, by papal bull, in 1571. This book...
Hardcover: 360 pages
(8 Mar 2006)
Language English
Original Price $ 30.00
Paperback Edition $ 18.00
ISBN / Barcode: 9780195177480
In a narrative that reads like a novel, Lauro Martines presents this "rich and fascinating portrait of Girolamo Savonarola" (LATimes), the preacher and political agitator who took center stage in Renaissance Florence after the fall of the Medicis. The Dominican friar is remembered as a...
