italy

Presents a two-in-one experimental novel about death, gender, morality, and art. In the first half of the book, a teen named Georgia struggles with the death of her mother, a feminist art critic obsessed with fifteenth-century Italian artist Francesco del Cossa. In the other half of the novel, the spirit of del Cossa observes twentieth-century Britain and remembers her own life disguised as a boy in order to practice her art.

Alvina Houghton is coming of age just as her widowed father's business is failing. Desperate to regain his fortune and secure his daughter's future, Alvina's father buys a theater. But when Alvina finds herself drawn to Ciccio, a traveling performer her father hired, she flees with him to Naples, leaving her safe world behind.

Since 1947, Ferrari racecars and road cars have set the standard in both style and performance.

Annie and Jack present information about Leonardo da Vinci, discussing the world in which he lived as well as his work as an artist and scientist.

Examines the life of nineteenth-century Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, discussing his childhood, musical training, family tragedies, and professional setbacks and successes. Includes twenty-one related activities.

Describes the life of Italian artist Sandro Botticelli and examines some of his paintings.

A little over a century ago the world went wireless. Cables and all their limiting inefficiencies gave way to a revolutionary means of transmitting news and information almost everywhere, instantaneously. By means of "Hertzian waves," as radio waves were initially known, ships could now make contact with other ships (saving lives, such as on the doomed R.M.S. Titanic); financial markets could coordinate with other financial markets, establishing the price of commodities and fixing exchange rates; military commanders could connect with the front lines, positioning artillery and directing troop movements. Suddenly and irrevocably, time and space telescoped beyond what had been thought imaginable. Someone had not only imagined this networked world but realized it: Guglielmo Marconi.

Follows the travels of Italian explorer John Cabot, born Giovanni Caboto, who moved to England and got King Henry VII to back an expedition across the Atlantic, where Cabot found what is now Canada. Eager to discover more, Cabot soon set sail on another voyage -- never to be heard from again.

Includes index. Introduces the life and artistic career of Renaissance sculptor and painter, Michelangelo Buonarroti.

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.