Provides a portrait of life in Renaissance Italy, from 1400 to 1550, featuring a timeline and overview of the period, and discussing women, art, celebrations, and many other topics.
Lorenzo, son of the Duke's master armorer, longs to experience battle for himself, and thrusts himself into conflict when he learns of a planned attack against the Duke.
Chronicles the life of Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI, discussing how she used her beauty and intelligence to secure a key role in the political struggles of Renaissance Italy.
In fourteenth-century Bologna, Alessandra Giliani, a brilliant young girl, defies convention and risks death in order to attend medical school at the university so that she can study anatomy.
Examines a life of Lucrezia Borgia as it is known to historians, and explores her relationship with her father, Pope Alexander VI, and her brothers, as well as provides details about the intrigue surrounding the Borgia family.
Deeply attached to the charming and carefree Francis Bernardone, Cecilia, a young noblewoman of Assisi, watches as he turns from his life of wealth and privilege, takes vows of poverty, and devotes himself to serving God by helping all those around him.
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.
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.
An eighteen-year-old stonecutter who is caught in the middle of political conflict in Florence, Italy, in the early 1500s, must flee for his life in disguise because his has become the best-known face and figure in Florence.
