renaissance

In Renaissance Italy, Elisabetta longs for romance, and when Leonardo da Vinci introduces her to Guiliano de Medici, whose family rules Florence but is about to be deposed, she has no inkling of the romance--and sorrow--that will ensue.

Explores the Renaissance, interpreting it as the culmination of influences from preceding periods instead of a turn away from them; includes more than one hundred illustrations, including several color plates of Renaissance artwork.

Seventeen-year-old Matt, painfully dyslexic and insecure, discovers that he can travel between worlds after being transported to Talia, where he joins Luciano and other Stravaganti in trying to prevent the di Chimici family's breakthrough into our world.

Provides an overview of the lives of Lorenzo de Medici and his subjects in late fourteenth-century Florence, a Renaissance-era city-state, and includes excerpts from poems, laws, and sermons of the time.

Describes the Renaissance period in Italy, when scholars and artists rejected the culture and thought of the Middle Ages and, instead, embraced the ancient cultures of Greece and Rome.

Presents an account of life during the Renaissance, a period which profoundly influenced the development of European civilization.

An examination of daily life in Renaissance Italy, looking at a range of settings and socioeconomic backgrounds, discussing families, honor and religion, media, literacy and schooling, houses, food, clothing, disease and healing, and other topics.

Discusses how and why the Renaissance began in Italy, the cultural and intellectual achievements of the Italian Renaissance, and the lasting effects of these achievements on Western civilization.

Examines aspects of the daily life and social history of Europe in the years between 1350 and 1600, looking at world events, geography, the arts, politics, leisure, religion, science, health, and other topics; and includes biographical profiles, a time line, documentary sources, and indexes.