renaissance

Introduces young readers to facts about the Italian Renaissance by highlighting the lives and works of five scientists and philosophers living during that time. Includes text-related questions and projects, quotes, timelines, a glossary, links to online resources, and color images.

Retraces the story of when Poggio Bracciolini found Lucretius' poem "On the Nature of Things," during the Renaissance and how the recirculation of this poem changed history.

In the land of Sauradia, Danio Cerra, looks back on his life as a low-born son of a tailor who gained entry into a renowned school and became the assistant of a tyrannical count. When he encounters an assassination attempt on the count by a woman known as Adria R?poli, the rebellious daughter of a duke, he lets her succeed. Danio develops feelings for Adria, and gets drawn into a feud between Adria's mercenary uncle Folco, who employs her as assassin, and his rival Teobaldo.

An introduction to the Renaissance that covers the period from Dante Alighieri's birth in the mid-thirteenth century to Michelangelo's death in the mid-sixteenth, discussing the rise of individualism, the interest in antiquity, politics, science and humanism, society and festivals, and morality and religion.

Portrays the Renaissance experience through brief biographies of the lives and work of ninety-four people who represent the full spectrum of Renaissance culture, and includes Leonardo da Vinci, Charles V, St. Teresa of Avila, and more.

Toby O'Dare, former government assassin, is summoned by the angel Malchiah to fifteenth-century Rome--the city of Michelangelo and Raphael, of Leo X and the Holy Inquisition--to solve a terrible crime of poisoning and to uncover the secrets of an earthbound restless spirit, a diabolical dybbuk.

Looks at explorers during the Renaissance including Niccol? de' Conti, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama, P?ro da Covilh?, and Ferdinand Magellan.

Explores the history of the Renaissance, including prominent figures, crucial dates, and more.

Presents biographies of twenty-four notable men and women of the Renaissance and Reformation, including artists, authors, religious leaders, musicians, scientists, and kings and queens, arranged alphabetically from A-K, with cross-references, illustrations, a time lines, glossary, and cumulative index.

Contains articles that provide historical information on aspects of European history from the mid-1300s to the early 1600s, examining the Italian and Northern Renaissance, and the Catholic and Protestant Reformations, grouped in seven subject chapters, with sidebars, illustrations, a glossary, cross-references, a time line, and research and activity ideas.