italy

Examines the intersecting lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia, describing how their brief time together in 1502 altered each man's beliefs and work and the course of Western history.

After losing an important game for his team, NFL backup quarterback Rick Dockery is fired, but his agent finds him an opportunity to play for the Panthers of Parma, and even though he has never been to Europe, he moves to Italy hoping for a second chance.

Presents a translation of thirteenth-century Venetian explorer Marco Polo's account of his travels throughout China, India, Persia, and other places.

An intellectually nonconformist monk investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.

Presents the text of the 1908 New York Edition of the novel in which high-spirited American, Isabel Archer, travels to England to find romance, heartbreak, and betrayal, and includes a selection of autobiographical excerpts, reviews, and criticism.

In this version of an Italian folktale, a brave gardener sets out to cure the king by getting a feather from the back of a terrible ogre.