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Profiles the life of Italian renaissance artist Michelangelo; highlighting his childhood, early career, work on the Sistine Chapel, religious beliefs, and more. Includes a chronology, historical time line, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary.

Profiles the life of Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci; highlighting his legal problems, students, artistic work, inventions, and scientific discoveries, and including a chronology, historical timeline, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary.

Profiles the life of Venetian artist Canaletto, highlighting his childhood, early career, influences, paintings, and more. Includes a chronology, historical timeline, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary.

Tells the life story of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, describing his childhood in northern Italy, early exposure to politics, creation of the Fascist Party and rise to power in the 1920s, repressive regime, relationship with Adolf Hitler, and actions during World War II.

Presents a collection of full-color illustrated reproductions of the works of fifteenth-century artist, Sandro Botticelli, depicting his mastery of religious and allegorical paintings of the European Renaissance.

Provides a brief introduction to the life and work of fifteenth-century artist Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Chronicles the life of Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, describing his accomplishments, his artistic techniques, his other areas of study, and the world in which he lived, and features more than one hundred illustrations.

Offers a brief overview of the life and work of nineteenth-century Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi.

Presents a short biography of eighteenth-century European composer, Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, who began as a priest and went on to write hundreds of concertos, operas, and sacred works, including "The Four Seasons.".

Examines the life of the Nobel Prize-winning Italian physicist who, among other achievements, developed the world's first nuclear reactor as part of the effort to create the first nuclear bomb.