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Medici heist

2024
"A sharp-witted teenage thief leads a team of skilled misfits in a dangerous and daring heist for fortune, freedom and revenge against a corrupt Pope in Renaissance Italy"--Provided by publisher.
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Leonardo's shadow, or, My astonishing life as Leonardo da Vinci's servant

Fifteen-year-old Giacomo, servant to Leonardo da Vinci, helps his procrastinating master finish painting, "The Last Supper," while also trying to find clues to his parentage and pursue his own career as an artist in late fifteenth-century Milan.

Monday with a mad genius

Jack and Annie travel 500 years back in time to Florence, Italy, and spend a day helping Leonardo da Vinci in the hope of learning another secret of happiness. Includes temporary tattoos.

Pippo the Fool

2011
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.

Monday With a Mad Genius

Magic Tree House #38
2009
Jack and Annie travel 500 years back in time to Florence, Italy, and spend a day helping Leonardo da Vinci in the hope of learning another secret of happiness.

The king's agent

2012
An agent for the King of France, Battista, searching for a sculpture that will help the king rule over Europe, finds an ally in Aurelia, the Marquess of Mantua, and together they embark on a harrowing quest that could change the course of history.

The artist, the philosopher, and the warrior

the intersecting lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the world they shaped
2009
Examines the intersecting lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia, describing how their brief time together in 1502 altered each man's beliefs and work and the course of Western history.

Leonardo's shadow, or, My astonishing life as Leonardo da Vinci's servant

2006
Fifteen-year-old Giacomo, servant to Leonardo da Vinci, helps his procrastinating master finish painting, "The Last Supper," while also trying to find clues to his parentage and pursue his own career as an artist in late fifteenth-century Milan.

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