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This new deluxe eBook edition features more than eighty additional pages of exclusive, author-approved annotations throughout the text, which contain new illustrations and photographs, to enrich your reading experience. You can access the eBook annotations with a simple click or tap on your eReader via the convenient links. Access them as you read the novel or as supplemental material after finishing the entire story. There is also...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is obscure in the palazzo's clandestine workings. Then her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the Alfonso, ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio. Now Lucrezia is to take her sister's place in a troubled court where her arrival is not universally welcomed. Sitting for her wedding portrait, one thing becomes clear to Lucrezia: her only duty is to provide an heir to shore up the...
10) I, Mona Lisa
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
515 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
11) The stars compel
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
430 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
14) Pippo the Fool
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In fifteenth-century Florence, Italy, a contest is held to design a magnificent dome for the town's cathedral, but when Pippo the Fool claims he will win the contest, everyone laughs at him. Based on a true story.
15) The smile
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Renaissance Italy, Elisabetta longs for romance, and when Leonardo da Vinci introduces her to Guiliano de Medici, whose family rules Florence but is about to be deposed, she has no inkling of the romance--and sorrow--that will ensue.
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A tale of one family's ambition and of Europe's struggle to emerge from the ravages of the Dark Ages. The Medici used charm, skill, and ruthlessness to garner unparalleled wealth and power, ruling Europe for more than 300 years.
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of the lives of Lorenzo de' Medici and his subjects in late fourteenth-century Florence, a Renaissance-era city-state, and includes excerpts from poems, laws, and sermons of the time.
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