For more than one hundred years, AC Milan has been considered one of the top soccer clubs in Italy. This book charts the team's rise to become the most valuable team in the nation and one of the richest in the world. In its early years, it faced local class rivalries and threats from fascism, while more recent challenges have often been financial in nature. Yet AC Milan continues to push forward as a global icon. This book explores these aspects and more to define what has made the club the powerhouse it is today.
When Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer in Milan, loses his memory, he returns to his family home in the hopes of rediscovering his past, and relives the story of his family through old newspapers, photo albums, and journals.
Father Agostino Leyre is dispatched to Milan in the fifteenth century to discover the identity of the mysterious "Soothsayer" who is sending cryptic messages to the Church, and to learn whether there is any truth to the Soothsayer's claims that Leonardo da Vinci has painted heretical messages into his masterpiece, The Last Supper.
Giorgio, sold by his father to go work as a chimneysweep in Milan, endures terrible hardship in the home of his master until a group of friends and a chance meeting helps him put his life on a new course.
Examines the life of Leonardo da Vinci, focusing on his unfinished sculpture of a huge horse he was commissioned to create for the Duke of Milan in the late 1400s, and discusses how the project was taken up by pilot Charlie Dent in 1977 and, after several setbacks, completed and presented as a gift to Milan in 1999.
