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Author
Series
Robert Langdon volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces--Dante's "Inferno"--as he battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Nell Zink took on the challenge of reading a novel by a friend, Hebrew-language writer Avner Shats. Unable to make sense of his work, she resolved to rewrite it for him from scratch. Her tongue-in-cheek homage is available for the first time, accompanied by a dazzling and imaginative novella that ingeniously explores questions of art, language, and life.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 340
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Author
Series
Marshal Guarnaccia investigation volume 10
Publisher
New York, NY
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Marshal Guarnaccia feels out of his league when he is assigned to help track down a serial killer, especially when he assigned to work under Simonetti, a man so dedicated to achieving a conviction that he is blinded to the consequences.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of ONE DAY, a wryly romantic debut story about two strangers who meet briefly as teens in Florence and whose paths cross again many times over the course of the next sixteen years, until they're finally brought back together"--
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In fifteenth-century Florence, Italy, a contest is held to design a magnificent dome for the town's cathedral, but when Pippo the Fool claims he will win the contest, everyone laughs at him. Based on a true story.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
To survive, Pippo Lippi, orphan, street urchin, budding rogue, must first become Fra Filippo Lippi: Carmelite friar, man of God. His life will take him down two paths at once. He will become a gambler, a forger, a seducer of nuns; and at the same time he will be the greatest painter of his time, the teacher of Botticelli and the confidante of the Medicis.Follows the journey of the boy who would become the painter Fra Filippo.
Author
Series
Sandro Cellini volume 1
Publisher
Felony & Mayhem Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"On this dull, rainy day in early November, even Florence looks sullen and unlovely. But that is not, surely, why an elderly Jewish architect walked into the River Arno. Nor does it offer any answers as to the disappearance of Veronica Hutton, a reckless young heiress killing time till marriage at one of the city's many international art academies. And most of all, the weather does not explain why both these cases should end up on the desk of Sandro...
Author
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"As the last will of a close friend is read, three women discover that they have inherited a legacy from her: the funds to take a dream trip to Florence, Italy, in her memory. With plenty of hilarious travel mishaps along the way, this book is a story of deep friendship, of making room in our lives to celebrate and remember, of grief, of the realization that friendship keeps the memory alive, and the sweet discovery of unexpected romance"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Hoping to safeguard themselves from the ravages of World War II within the walls of their ancient villa in Florence, the noble Rosatis family become prisoners in their home when eighteen-year-old Cristina's courtship by a German lieutenant prompts the Nazis to take over the estate, a situation that leads to a serial murder investigation years later.
12) Tuscan Rose
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
FLORENCE, 1914. A mysterious stranger known as The Wolf leaves an infant with the sisters of Santo Spirito. A tiny silver key hidden in her wrappings is the one clue to the child’s identity. . . . FIFTEEN YEARS LATER, young Rosa must leave the nuns, her only family, and become governess to the daughter of an aristocrat and his strange, frightening wife. Their house is elegant but cursed, and Rosa—blessed with gifts beyond her considerable musical...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this irresistible historical novel set in the turbulent world of the Medicis, a young woman finds herself driven from pick-pocketing to espionage when she meets a mysterious man.
An orphan in Florence Giulia must choose between becoming a nun, or being married off to a man she doesn't love. Instead she escapes onto the streets of Florence, spending two years as a pickpocket. When she is caught, her victim offers her a business proposition. The...
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Since she was a child, Meg has dreamed of taking a promised trip to Florence, Italy, and being able to finally step into the place captured in a picture at her grandmother's house. But after her grandmother passes away and it falls to her less-than-reliable father to take her instead, Meg's long-anticipated travel plans seem permanently on hold. When her dad finally tells Meg to book the trip, she prays that the experience will heal the fissures left...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Rome, 1943: University student Marina Tozzi is on her way home when she finds out that her father has been killed for harboring a Jewish artist in their home. Fearful of the consequences, Marina flees to Villa I Tatti, the Florence villa of her father's American friend Bernard Berenson and his partner Belle da Costa Greene, the famed librarian who once curated J.P. Morgan's library. Florence is a hotbed of activity as partisans and Germans fight...
Author
Series
Lady Emily mystery volume 15
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 1903, tensions between Britain and Germany are starting to loom over Europe, something that has not gone unnoticed by Lady Emily and her husband, Colin Hargreaves. An agent of the Crown, Colin carries the weight of the Empire, but his focus is drawn to Italy by a series of burglaries at his daughter's palazzo in Florence--burglaries that might have international ramifications. He and Emily travel to Tuscany where, soon after their arrival, a stranger...
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