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After challenging his father's pact with the Order of Assassins to induct him into their group, Ezio discovers his friends, family, and other unlikely allies will help him with his options. Complications arise when Ezio inadvertently stops an assassination attempt, drawing the attention of an obsessive police detective. As Ezio fights to regain control of his life and change his destiny, he finds he must make some tough decisions to protect not only himself, but also those he loves.

Ezio's family has relocated to Rome---and he's been to the northern towns of Rimini, Alessandria, and Verona. His simple errand of delivering a package to his grandmother brings him mystery and danger. While trying to stop a deadly threat to his Uncle Samuele, Ezio and his friends come face to face with a dead man. Will Ezio fulfill his family's promise to become a world class assassin---or can he find a way to escape what some have called his destiny?.

Niccolo Machiavelli was born in Florence, Italy in 1469. At age forty-four, after a life in politics, he was facing ruin. Suspected of conspiring against the new government he was imprisoned and tortured. Eventually he was found innocent and released. He left town to live with his wife and family on a small farm but he soon became bored and depressed with a rural life. In the long, empty evenings he began to write down some considerations on how to win power and, above all, how to hold on to it and not to be a victim of circumstances. This volume is the result of the evenings he spent writing. It soon became a scandal because of its topic and has been a source for instruction through the centuries.

He was a ruler with no identity, a man who neither understood himself nor his country. Includes his private war with Adolf Hitler, his march on Rome, and his theatrical personality.

A surprising and unprecedented history of the war in Italy from Mussolini's fall until the final victory. Chronicling an unbroken sequence of Nazi infamies, Lamb reveals how German troops massacred thousands of surrending Italians in the Aegean islands, deported Italian Jews to Auschwitz and slaughtered Italian hostages and POWs.

Looks at the life and times of ancient Rome.

Text and illustrations introduce the geography, history, people, and culture of Italy.