Written by a two-time Newberry medal winning author, this book creates an intriguing answer to the puzzle behind the most famous painting, the Mona Lisa. 

￼The Mona Lisa... Why did Leonardo da Vinci lavish three years on a painting of the second wife of an unimportant merchant when all the nobles of Europe were begging for a portrait by his hand? 
No one knows for sure. But this story of Leonardo, his wayward apprentice Salai, and the Duke of Milan's plain young wife, Beatrice d'Este, may hold the clue to the most famous -- and puzzling -- painting of all time.


For ages 10-14.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

The Second Mrs. Gioconda

Arthur L. Costa

Robert J. Garmston

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Texas

A Foundation for Renaissance Schools

Shows you how teachers' individual and collective capacities for continuing self-improvement are strengthened over time through cognitive coaching.

Cognitive Coaching

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Terry Felber

Twelve Keys to Successful Living

Are you ready for a change? The Legend of the Monk and the Merchant will change the way you see yourself, your job, and your purpose.

The Legend of the Monk and the Merchant

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Elizabeth Loupas

North Carolina

Barbara, the second wife of the ambitious Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, finds her new life plagued with whispers of her husband's suspected murder of his first wife and tries to discover the truth to save her own life. Original.

The Second Duchess

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Anton Gill

New York

Michelangelo, Florence, and the David 1492-1504

This is the story of 12 years in one of the most creative and volatile periods in Italian history, when a young, erratic genius, Michelangelo Buonarroti, made the David. It was to become a symbol not only of the independence and defiance of the city of Florence but also of the tortured soul who created it.

Il Gigante

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#bestseller #mystery #DaVinciCode #secrets #Renaissance #codes #math

Tom Sullivan is about to graduate from Princeton. He's intelligent and popular, but haunted by the violent death several years earlier of his father, an academic who devoted his life to studying one of the rarest, most complex and most valuable books in t

The Rule of Four

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Christopher Hibbert

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Washington

1431-1519

The first major biography of the Borgias in thirty years, Christopher Hibbert's latest history brings the family and the world they lived in--the glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissance--to life.

The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring also rose to power and fame--Lucrezia Borgia, his daughter, whose husband was famously murdered by her brother, and that brother, Cesare, who served as the model for Niccolò Machiavelli'sThe Prince. Notorious for seizing power, wealth, land, and titles through bribery, marriage, and murder, the dynasty's dramatic rise from its Spanish roots to its occupation of the highest position in Renaissance society forms a gripping tale.

Erudite, witty, and always insightful, Hibbert removes the layers of myth around the Borgia family and creates a portrait alive with his superb sense of character and place.

The Borgias and Their Enemies

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Ashley Schumacher

New Jersey

"Ashley Schumacher's latest novel is a delightful read, with diverse characters and an irresistible setting. The Renaissance of Gwen Hathaway proves that there's no better place to find yourself than at a Renaissance Faire." - Jen Deluca, author of Well Met

Dumplin' meets Well Met in this novel about finding your place in the world, learning love is a risk worth taking, and discovering what happens when you take your fate into your own hands.

Since her mother's death, Madeline "Gwen" Hathaway has been determined that nothing in her life will change ever again. That's why she keeps extensive lists in journals, has had only one friend since childhood, and looks forward to the monotony of working the ren faire circuit with her father. Until she arrives at her mother's favorite end-of-tour stop to find the faire is under new management and completely changed.

Meeting Arthur, the son of the new owners and an actual lute-playing bard, messes up Maddie's plans even more. For some reason, he wants to be her friend - and ropes her into becoming Princess of the Faire. Now Maddie is overseeing a faire dramatically changed from what her mother loved and going on road trips vastly different from the routine she used to rely on. Worst of all, she's kind of having fun.

Ashley Schumacher's The Renaissance of Gwen Hathaway is filled with a wise old magician who sells potion bottles, gallant knights who are afraid of horses and ride camels instead, kings with a fondness for theatrics, a lazy river castle moat with inflatable crocodile floaties, and a plus-sized heroine with a wide open heart... if only she just admits it.

"Set in one of my favorite places in the world -- a Renaissance Faire full of jousts, royalty, bards, and castles-- this is a wise, beautiful, funny book with tremendous heart. I absolutely loved it." - Jamie Pacton, author of The Life and (Medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly and Lucky Girl

The Renaissance of Gwen Hathaway

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Gavin Menzies

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Michigan

The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance

The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that in the year 1434, China--then the world's most technologically advanced civilization--provided the spark that set the European Renaissance ablaze. From that date onward, Europeans embraced Chinese ideas, discoveries, and inventions, all of which form the basis of Western civilization today.

The New York Times bestselling author of 1421 combines a long-overdue historical reexamination with the excitement of an investigative adventure, bringing the reader aboard the remarkable Chinese fleet as it sails from China to Cairo and Florence, and then back across the world. Erudite and brilliantly reasoned, 1434 will change the way we see ourselves, our history, and our world.

1434 The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance 

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William Manchester

First edition in excellent condition. Previous owners name written inside. 

The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age

William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire is the preeminent popular history of civilization's rebirth after the Dark Ages.

A World Lit Only by Fire

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Nick Bantock

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A Strangely Sensual Tale of a Renaissance Explorer, a Computer, and a Metamorphosis

Sara Wolfe, working as an art restorer at a museum, is offered a job by the mysterious Mr. Conti, who will only communicate with her via e-mail

The Venetian's Wife

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#paperback #renaissance #reformation #worldhistory #nationalgeographic 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

World history AD 1350-1600

Experience humanism and the rebirth of classical culture as the Renaissance begins in Venice and Florence. Discover new styles in art and bold new ideas in science. Meet Martin Luther and see how his protest launched the Reformation that led to the rise of Protestant religions.

Reading Expeditions (World Studies: World History): Renaissance and Reformation (A. D. 1350-1600)

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Florida

Michelangelo

Ross King

How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

Anyone alive in Florence on August 19, 1418, would have understood the significance of the competition announced that day concerning the city's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, already under construction for more than a century. "Whoever desires to make any model or design for the vaulting of the main Dome...shall do so before the end of the month of September." The proposed dome was regarded far and wide as all but impossible to build: not only would it be enormous, but its original and sacrosanct design eschewed (shunned) the flying buttresses that supported cathedrals all over Europe. The dome would literally need to be erected over thin air.

Of the many plans submitted, one stood out--a daring and unorthodox solution to vaulting what is still the largest dome (143 feet in diameter) in the world. It was offered not by a master mason or carpenter, but by a goldsmith and clock maker named Filippo Brunelleschi, then 41, who would dedicate the next 28 years to solving the puzzles of the dome's construction. In the process, he did nothing less than reinvent the field of architecture.

Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance genius bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder we continue to marvel at today. Denounced at first as a madman, Brunelleschi was celebrated at the end as a genius. He engineered the perfect placement of brick and stone, built ingenious hoists and cranes (some among the most renowned machines of the Renaissance) to carry an estimated 70 million pounds hundreds of feet into the air, and designed the workers' platforms and routines so carefully that only one man died during the decades of construction--all the while defying those who said the dome would surely collapse and personal obstacles that at times threatened to overwhelm him. This drama was played out amidst plagues, wars, political feuds, and the intellectual ferments of Renaissance Florence--events Ross King weaves into the story to great effect, from Brunelleschi's bitter, ongoing rivalry with the sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti to the near capture of Florence by the Duke of Milan. King also offers a wealth of fascinating detail that opens windows onto fifteenth-century life: the celebrated traditions of the brickmaker's art, the daily routine of the artisans laboring hundreds of feet above the ground as the dome grew ever higher, the problems of transportation, the power of the guilds.

Even today, in an age of soaring skyscrapers, the cathedral dome of Santa Maria del Fiore retains a rare power to astonish. In telling the story of the greatest engineering puzzle of the Renaissance and one of the world's architectural marvels, Ross King brings its creation to life in a fifteenth-century chronicle with twenty-first-century resonance.

Brunelleschi's Dome

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The story of the creation of one of history's most influential artworks describes the political and religious turmoil that influenced the painting's evolution and the personal beliefs that shaped da Vinci's symbolic choices.

Leonardo and the Last Supper

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Anthony Gottlieb

A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance

The author re-examines the basic assumptions of philosophical thought from the pre-Socratic philosophers to Erasmus.

The Dream of Reason

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You Higuri

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From birth, Cesare Borgia is surrounded by shadows. Damned by his own father and driven by the demons, his quest for power threatens to set the world of Renaissance Italy ablaze - unless one innocent person can drive away the poisonous shadows ravaging him! Enter the world of the Borgias, a world of unspeakable conspiracies and forbidden desires. A family whose murderous intrigues would make them infamous throughout history. A history written in blood... and a poison called Cantarella. From brand-new publisher Go! Comi, an imprint of Go! Media Entertainment.

Cantarella volume 1 - signature edition

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Mario Puzo

A Novel

"Dazzling, passionate, a masterwork that ranks with Puzo's best."

--Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguys

"One of his most satisfying works....A thoroughly entertaining posthumous present from one of the masters of popular fiction."

--Booklist

Mario Puzo's final masterwork. A sweeping epic saga of corruption, greed, treachery, and sin, The Family is the ultimate crowning achievement of the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist who gave the world The Godfather, arguably the greatest Mafia crime novel ever written.  In The Family, Puzo--whom the Washington Post calls, "A serious American talent"--plunges reader into the colorful tumult of the Italian Renaissance, immersing them in the roiling intrigues and deadly affairs of the remarkable family whose name has always been synonymous with power, corruption, poison, and murder: the infamous Borgias.



The Family

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South Carolina

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Georgia

English

Nine years ago, W. W. Norton changed the way world literature is taught by introducing The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Expanded Edition.

Norton Anthology of World Literature

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Paul Strathern

Virginia

Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped

Evaluates the three Italian Renaissance icons as products and complements of their times, considering how events in early sixteenth-century Italy as well as their relationships with each other profoundly affected their legacies.

The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior

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Craig Cormick

Utah

In a land riven with plague, inside the infamous Walled City, two families vie for control: the Medicis with their genius inventor Leonardo; the Lorraines with Galileo, the most brilliant alchemist of his generation. And when two star-crossed lovers, one from either house, threaten the status quo, a third, shadowy power – one that forever seems a step ahead of all of the familial warring – plots and schemes, and bides its time, ready for the moment to attack... Assassination; ancient, impossible machines; torture and infamy – just another typical day in paradise. File Under: Fantasy [ Wherefore Art Thou | Fathers of Invention | Unexpected Journeys | Secrets & Lies ]

The Shadow Master

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