florence (italy)

Presents a biography of Florentine explorer, Amerigo Vespucci, and describes the adventures and exploits of the man for whom the New World was named.

A guide to the architecture, museums, galleries, walks, churches, hotels, and restaurants.

Presents the life and accomplishments of the fifteenth-century Florentine statesman and philosopher who is best known for his political writings.

Alessandra Cecchi becomes enchanted with a young painter her father has brought back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo, but their relationship is interrupted when Alessandra's parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy older man.

Vittorio, a five-hundred-year-old vampire, tells the story of how he was seduced at the age of sixteen by Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies, after she saved him from being killed by her fellow vampires during a slaughter in which his entire family was wiped out.

Examines the life of Renaissance political theorist and author Machiavelli, looking at his ideas on power within the context of the times in which he lived, and discussing his youth, diplomatic career, imprisonment, the writing of "The Prince, " and his later years as a scholar and historian.

A charming, young English woman is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own desires when she finds herself attracted to someone socially unsuitable.

An eighteen-year-old stonecutter who is caught in the middle of political conflict in Florence, Italy, in the early 1500s, must flee for his life in disguise because his has become the best-known face and figure in Florence.