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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Spanning an age that witnessed great achievements in the arts and sciences, this definitive overview of the Italian Renaissance will both captivate ordinary readers and challenge specialists. Dr. Plumb’s impressive and provocative narrative is accompanied by contributions from leading historians, including Morris Bishop, J. Bronowski, Maria Bellonci, and many more, who have further illuminated the lives of some of the era’s most unforgettable...
Author
Series
Medieval mysteries (Avi) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Falsely accused of plotting to overthrow King Claudio, scholarly Mangus the magician, along with his street-smart servant boy, Fabrizio, face deadly consequences unless they can track down the real traitor by the stroke of midnight.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Describes the arduous training and difficult day-to-day working lives of painters in Florence during the Renaissance and discusses how their changing approach to the art they created elevated their standing and influence in Florentine society.
Author
Series
Sigismondo mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Similar to the classic Snow White story, this version takes place in Renaissance Italy. Seven-year-old Bianca is sent to live with father's farm staff when he is ordered to reclaim a branch of apples from the Tree of Knowledge. When an evil woman becomes jealous of Bianca, she begins to plot her death.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
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Description
The young D'Artagnan travels to Paris determined to join King Louis XIII's elite guards. Hot-headed and raring to prove himself, D'Artagnan challenges three strangers to a duel. These strangers are none other than the daring band of Musketeers - Porthos, Athos and Aramis. D'Artagnan's fearless spirit impresses them.
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Michaelangelo's career is traced from his promising boyhood apprenticeships to the painter Ghilandajo and the sculptor Bertoldo through all the years of his genius.
Irving Stones classic biographical novel of Michelangelo. the #1 New York Times bestseller in which both the artist and the man are brought to vivid, captivating life. His timethe turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring Popes, and the all-powerful de'Medici family......
Author
Series
Stravaganza volume 5
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Feeling inferior to her talented twin brother, teenaged Isabel is transported to a parallel world that resembles the Italian Renaissance city-state of Ravenna, where she tries to save the city from attack by the fierce Gate people.
15) Raphael
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
17) The smile
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
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.
Author
Series
Poisoner mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[[2012] 2012]
Language
English
Description
Mistress of death Francesca Giordano--court poisoner to the House of Borgia--returns to confront an ancient atrocity that threatens to extinguish the light of the Renaissance and plunge the world into eternal darkness. As the enemies of Pope Alexander VI close in and the papal court is forced to flee from Rome, Francesca joins forces with her lover, the brilliant and ruthless Cesare Borgia to unravel a conspiracy that strikes at the heart of Christendom....
20) The playmaker
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
While working as an apprentice in a London theater company in 1597, fourteen-year-old Richard uncovers a mystery involving the disappearance of his father and a traitorous plot to overthow Queen Elizabeth.
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