renaissance

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Stephen's Light

1969
After being jilted by her fianc?e, a young girl persuades her father to let her enter the business world rather than a convent.

The intelligencer

2005
When Kate Morgan is put in charge of an ancient manuscript that people are willing to kill over, Kate and her private investigating office become embroiled in an international conspiracy to cover up an assassination that took place in London over 200 years ago.

Michelangelo and his drawings

1988
Focuses on the drawings of the artist famous for his sculptures and his work on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

The falconer's knot

a story of friars, flirtation and foul play
2007
Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love.

The secret supper

2006
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.

All the queen's men

the world of Elizabeth I
2000

A world lit only by fire

the medieval mind and the Renaissance : portrait of an age
1992
A portrait of the Middle Ages, studying the process of religious, intellectual, and geographic exploration that led medieval people into the rebirth of civilization known as the Renaissance.

Stravaganza

city of ships
2012
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.

In Renaissance Florence with Leonardo

2009
Andy and Frannie meet the artist Leonardo da Vinci while visiting Florence, Italy, and are transported to 1504 where Leonardo shows them the great cathedral, markets, and famous sights of the Renaissance city.

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