florence

Presents George Eliot's 1862 novel about Romola, a woman who, having grown up subservient to her scholar-father, and endured an unhappy marriage, has a passionate intellectual and spiritual awakening in Renaissance Florence.

Recounts the violent political power struggles, the social and religious ferment, the cultural revolution, and the individual prominence surrounding the life of Lorenzo de' Medici, the Italian nobleman described as the archetype of "the Renaissance Man.".

A fictionalized biography that describes the life of Elisabetta, the woman who posed for Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, the Mona Lisa.

Lauro Martines presents a new analysis of the life of fifteenth-century Italian preacher Savonarola and his impact on the Renaissance.

Presents an overview of the history of the Medici family, Florentine bankers and one of Europe's great dynasties, including information on how they built a fortune in banking by lending money at interest.

A young woman is at war with the snobbery of her class and her desires when she finds herself attracted to someone socially unsuitable.

A catalog to the 2002-2003 exhibition which showcases art produced in Florence under the influence of the first Medici grand dukes from 1537 to 1631, with essays that discuss the ties between the Medicis and Michelangelo, as well as their sponsorship of other artists.

Lucy Honeychurch is at war with the snobbery of her class and her desires when she finds herself attracted to someone socially unsuitable.

Margot Harrington, an expert at book conservancy, discovers a volume of sixteen erotic drawings by Giulio Romano accompanying sixteen steamy sonnets by Pietro Aretino in a convent library. When published over four centuries earlier, the Vatican had insisted all copies be destroyed. This one--now unique--volume has survived.