Format: NTSC / PAL (Playable in any Country) Running Time: 106 min.
ISBN / Barcode: 9788890361814
Contents: The City, The History, Art, Personages, Curiosities, The Medici Family. Special Features: The Arno River, Florence, Then & Now, Wintertime, Slide Tuscany, Florence in music, A “journey through time” is a guide to the most beautiful places explained in detail (32 pages...
A practicing artist, author, and curator, Timothy Hyman guides us through the golden age of Sienese painting, offering a new perspective on some of the world's most beautiful paintings, including Duccio's Maesta and Ambrogio Lorenzetti's famous Good Government frescoes. A sound understanding of the...
Mindbogglers 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles feature spectacular images from picturesque parts of the world, with photographs carefully selected for their detail, composition, quality and beauty.
Showcasing a visually appealing scene, this jigsaw puzzle is great fun to put together, either as a...
Age Range: 5 - 7 years
Grade Level: Kindergarten - 2
Hardcover: 44 pages
Language: English
ISBN / Barcode: 9781100425498
The touching, magical story of a boy in a war-torn country and the stone lion that rescues him.
Renato loves his home in Florence, Italy. He loves playing with his friends in the Piazza della Signoria. He loves walking home by the beautiful buildings and fountains with his father in the...
From the minute they look out of their window in the morning to their last nightcap at the bar, Tuscans, like most Italians, are thinking about food.
In Tuscany, Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi take readers on a culinary journey through a Tuscan day, to discover the delicacies of the region and the...
Guidebook to the Grand Apennines Trek, or Grande Escursione Appenninica (GEA). Through Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna and two National Parks, this 400km, 23 day trail explores the mountains, forests and hills of central Italy. Suitable for a range of walkers, it can be split into shorter sections or day...
by Edmund Garratt Gardner (Author), Jon M. Sweeney (Editor)
Hardcover: 245 pages
Language: English
ISBN / Barcode: 9781557256218
Meet the 14th century woman who fed the poor, challenged bishops and kings, and perhaps even saved the papacy. Catherine of Siena's influence was felt throughout the kingdoms of Europe. She enjoyed the confidence of popes, royalty, and most of all, the common people of Italy. A complicated woman,...
Hardcover: 448 pages
(Nov 2004)Language English
Edizione in PB euro 15.00
ISBN / Barcode: 9780670033539
The biographer of Queen Elizabeth II here tackles the life of Lucrezia Borgia, one of the most celebrated and also vilified women of 16th-century Italy. "Historians who have attempted to rescue Lucrezia Borgia from her legend as a poisoner who slept with both her father, Pope Alexander VI, and...
