Caselli, Giovanni

Traces the history of the Roman Empire and the Dark Ages which followed through a description of common objects, tools, clothes, dwellings, food, and day-to-day activities of the people in both the cities and in the country.

Presents, in text and illustrations, a range of people whose way of life reveals various aspects of the society developing in Europe and America from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries.

Describes a year in the life of the monks living in the great monastery of Cluny in medieval France, as seen through the eyes of a young boy who has just joined the monastic order.

Describes the discovery of the tomb of the Egyptian king Tutankhamun and what it revealed about everyday life in his time.

Traces the history of the Roman Empire and the Dark Ages which followed, through a description of common objects, tools, clothes, dwellings, food, and day-to-day activities of the people in both the cities and in the country.

Presents in brief text and illustrations an overview of western history from prehistory to the present day.

Presents a story depicting life in Egypt more than 1000 years before Christ, focusing on the family of a scribe.

Describes the construction of each of the Seven Wonders of the World and relates them to similar structures in ancient and modern times.

Presents a story of a rich merchant, Francesco Datini, and his household in northern Italy in the late fourteenth century, seen from the viewpoint of a slave, depicting the merchant's life in the town of Prato and his work in nearby Florence.

Examines daily life in the Middle Ages, covering such aspects as chivalry, the great cathedrals, medieval technology, country life, and pilgrimages.