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The Medici Dagger

Author : Cameron West
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743424514
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Medici Dagger written by Cameron West and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-01-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1491: Leonardo looked upon his invention, understood its powers, and knew he must hide it from the men of his age. Thus, a profound treasure was lost for five centuries. Now the race to find it begins. Hurtling across the Atlantic, a plane goes down -- taking with it a page from the journals of Leonardo da Vinci. In Georgetown, the home of museum curator Rollo Barnett burns to the ground. Only his young son, Reb, escapes alive. Are the tragedies connected? Are they merely accidents or acts of murder? Twenty years later, Hollywood stuntman Reb Barnett, an educated, art-loving, high-risk-addicted daredevil on the run from his nightmares, refuses to believe so. Until a phone call rips him from his world of cinematic illusion, and sends him to Italy on a desperate quest where danger and violence are chillingly real. Reb seeks da Vinci's Circles of Truth, a coded fifteenth-century map that reveals the hiding place of the Medici Dagger, a weapon made of an alloy so light and indestructible it is worth a fortune to today's arms manufacturers. To Reb, it is worth even more -- it is his only link to finding the truth about his father's death, and to laying bare the dark demons of his own heart. But finding the Circles of Truth is only the first step. Breaking their complex code means matching wits with Leonardo himself. And staying alive means keeping one jump ahead of a shadowy adversary: the killer who haunts Reb's dreams. From the brilliant Tuscan landscape to the lush California coast, The Medici Dagger sweeps readers into an intriguing intellectual puzzle that delivers shattering suspense and fiery romance with the velocity of a 9mm bullet. Cameron West generates the roller-coaster thrills of the great classic adventure stories -- with the adrenaline rush of walking on a knife's edge between excitement and terror.

The Florentine Dagger

Author : Ben Hecht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Florentine Dagger written by Ben Hecht and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Florentine Dagger

Author : Ben Hecht
Publisher : Edizioni Savine
ISBN 13 : 8899914443
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Florentine Dagger written by Ben Hecht and published by Edizioni Savine. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exotic, strange, and powerful, this thrilling mystery will keep you guessing until the end. "The five illustrations contained in the following pages are the work of the new phenomenal black and white artist, Wallace Smith. In making the drawings Mr. Smith chose to illustrate the spirit of the text rather than its letter. The result is this series of Renaissance pictures whose dark opulence curiously interprets the moods of the story's hero, Prince Julien de Medici — of Broadway." (1923 - Ben Hecht)

The Medici Project

Author : Zachary Elliott
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359903312
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book The Medici Project written by Zachary Elliott and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Michael Rabens, a high-class bookworm with an IQ of 160, has just received a doctorate in art history from Princeton. With a love for architecture and history, and a deep desire to discover truth, the sophisticated graduate begins his very own research expedition in Rome, a region rife with social and political conflicts. There he makes a sudden surprising discovery: a series of letters describing a mysterious project in Renaissance Florence, commissioned by the powerful Medici family. But when the letters are stolen by an unlikely enemy, he finds himself at the center of a dangerous plot. After being rescued by renegade spies, he must work to stop the plot from happening, using his knowledge of architecture and history to unearth the Medici Project before its contents end up in enemy hands. Yet Dr. Rabens soon realizes his book knowledge can only get him so far, as he must find the courage to confront his own fears.

Magnifico

Author : Miles Unger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743254341
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Magnifico written by Miles Unger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miles Unger's biography of this complex figure draws on primary research in Italian sources and on his intimate knowledge of Florence, where he lived for several years."--BOOK JACKET.

The Duke's Assassin

Author : Stefano Dall'Aglio
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300189788
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Duke's Assassin written by Stefano Dall'Aglio and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I. The eleven-year exile -- Part II. Anatomy of a murder.

Art, Mobility, and Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany and Eurasia

Author : Francesco Freddolini
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100007837X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art, Mobility, and Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany and Eurasia written by Francesco Freddolini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the Medici Grand Dukes pursued ways to expand their political, commercial, and cultural networks beyond Europe, cultivating complex relations with the Ottoman Empire and other Islamicate regions, and looking further east to India, China, and Japan. The chapters in this volume discuss how casting a global, cross-cultural net was part and parcel of the Medicean political vision. Diplomatic gifts, items of commercial exchange, objects looted at war, maritime connections, and political plots were an inherent part of how the Medici projected their state on the global arena. The eleven chapters of this volume demonstrate that the mobility of objects, people, and knowledge that generated the global interactions analyzed here was not unidirectional—rather, it went both to and from Tuscany. In addition, by exploring evidence of objects produced in Tuscany for Asian markets,this book reveals hitherto neglected histories of how Western cultures projected themselves eastwards.

Lorenzo De' Medici, the Magnificent

Author : Alfred von Reumont
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lorenzo De' Medici, the Magnificent written by Alfred von Reumont and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent

Author : Alfred von Reumont
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent written by Alfred von Reumont and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent is a two-part biography on the life and achievements of Lorenzo de' Medici (1449-1492), an Italian administrator, leader of the Florentine Republic and one of the most influential benefactors of Renaissance culture in Italy. Also known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, he is recognized for his patronage of artists such as Botticelli and Michelangelo. His life spanned concurrently with the stable part of the Italian Renaissance and the Golden Age of Florence.

The Life and Legacy of Lorenzo de' Medici

Author : Alfred von Reumont
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Legacy of Lorenzo de' Medici written by Alfred von Reumont and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent is a two-part biography on the life and achievements of Lorenzo de' Medici (1449-1492), an Italian administrator, leader of the Florentine Republic and one of the most influential benefactors of Renaissance culture in Italy. Also known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, he is recognized for his patronage of artists such as Botticelli and Michelangelo. His life spanned concurrently with the stable part of the Italian Renaissance and the Golden Age of Florence.

Daggers and Men's Smiles

Author : Jill Downie
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 9781554888696
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book Daggers and Men's Smiles written by Jill Downie and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the English Channel Island of Guernsey, Detective Inspector Ed Moretti and his new partner, Liz Falla, investigate vicious attacks on Epicure Films. The international production company is shooting a movie based on British bad-boy author Gilbert Ensor’s bestselling novel about an Italian aristocratic family at the end of the Second World War, using fortifications from the German occupation of Guernsey as locations, and the manor house belonging to the expatriate Vannonis. When vandalism escalates into murder, Moretti must resist the attractions of Ensor’s glamorous American wife, Sydney, consolidate his working relationship with Falla, and establish whether the murders on Guernsey go beyond the island. Why is the Marchesa Vannoni in Guernsey? What is the significance of the design that appears on the daggers used as murder weapons, as well as on the Vannoni family crest? And what role does the marchesas statuesque niece, Giulia, who runs the family business and is probably bisexual, really play?

The Medici Conspiracy

Author : Peter Watson
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1586485407
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Medici Conspiracy written by Peter Watson and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the vases, however, is the discovery of the smuggler's card index detailing his deals and dealers. It reveals the existence of a web of tombaroli—tomb raiders— who steal classical artifacts, and a network of dealers and smugglers who spirit them out of Italy and into the hands of wealthy collectors and museums. Peter Watson, a former investigative journalist for the London Sunday Times and author of two previous exposés of art world scandals, names the key figures in this network that has depleted Europe's classical artifacts. Among the loot are the irreplaceable and highly collectable vases of Euphronius, the equivalent in their field of the sculpture of Bernini or the painting of Michelangelo. The narrative leads to the doors of some major institutions: Sothebys, the Getty Museum in L.A., the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York among them. Filled with great characters and human drama, The Medici Conspiracy authoritatively exposes another shameful round in one of the oldest games in the world: theft, smuggling and duplicitous dealing, all in the name of art.

Lent

Author : Jo Walton
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1466865725
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Lent written by Jo Walton and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning Jo Walton comes Lent, a magical re-imagining of the man who remade fifteenth-century Florence—in all its astonishing strangeness Young Girolamo’s life is a series of miracles. It’s a miracle that he can see demons, plain as day, and that he can cast them out with the force of his will. It’s a miracle that he’s friends with Pico della Mirandola, the Count of Concordia. It’s a miracle that when Girolamo visits the deathbed of Lorenzo “the Magnificent,” the dying Medici is wreathed in celestial light, a surprise to everyone, Lorenzo included. It’s a miracle that when Charles VIII of France invades northern Italy, Girolamo meets him in the field, and convinces him to not only spare Florence but also protect it. It’s a miracle than whenever Girolamo preaches, crowds swoon. It’s a miracle that, despite the Pope’s determination to bring young Girolamo to heel, he’s still on the loose...and, now, running Florence in all but name. That’s only the beginning. Because Girolamo Savanarola is not who—or what—he thinks he is. He will discover the truth about himself at the most startling possible time. And this will be only the beginning of his many lives. "Rendered with Walton's usual power and beauty...It's this haunting character complexity that ultimately holds the reader captive to the tale." —N. K. Jemisin, New York Times, on My Real Children At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The World of Renaissance Italy [2 volumes]

Author : Joseph P. Byrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 843 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The World of Renaissance Italy [2 volumes] written by Joseph P. Byrne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 843 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students of the Italian Renaissance who wish to go beyond the standard names and subjects will find in this text abundant information on the lives, customs, beliefs, and practices of those who lived during this exciting time period. The World of Renaissance Italy: A Daily Life Encyclopedia engages all of the Italian peninsula from the Black Death (1347–1352) to 1600. Unlike other encyclopedic works about the Renaissance era, this book deals exclusively with Italy, revealing the ways common Italian people lived and experienced the events and technological developments that marked the Renaissance era. The coverage specifically spotlights marginal or traditionally marginalized groups, including women, homosexuals, Jews, the elderly, and foreign communities in Italian cities. The entries in this two-volume set are organized into 10 sections of 25 alphabetically listed entries each. Among the broad sections are art, fashion, family and gender, food and drink, housing and community, politics, recreation and social customs, and war. The "See Also" sources for each article are listed by section for easy reference, a feature that students and researchers will greatly appreciate. The extensive collection of contemporary documents include selections from a diary, letters, a travel journal, a merchant's inventory, Inquisition testimony, a metallurgical handbook, and text by an artist that describes what the author feels constitutes great work. Each of the primary source documents accompanies a specific article and provides an added dimension and degree of insight to the material.

The Sword and the Dagger

Author : F A S A Corporation
Publisher : Contemporary Books
ISBN 13 : 9780931787775
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book The Sword and the Dagger written by F A S A Corporation and published by Contemporary Books. This book was released on 1986-09-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swordplay and sorcery leads to unexpected adventures in a strange and exotic land.

Shadow of the Swords

Author : Kamran Pasha
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416580706
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Shadow of the Swords written by Kamran Pasha and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic saga of love and war, Shadow of the Swords tells the story of the Crusades—from the Muslim perspective. Saladin, a Muslim sultan, finds himself pitted against King Richard the Lionheart as Islam and Christianity clash against each other, launching a conflict that still echoes today. In the midst of a brutal and unforgiving war, Saladin finds forbidden love in the arms of Miriam, a beautiful Jewish girl with a tragic past. But when King Richard captures Miriam, the two most powerful men on Earth must face each other in a personal battle that will determine the future of the woman they both love—and of all civilization. Richly imagined, deftly plotted, and highly entertaining, Shadow of the Swords is a remarkable story that will stay with readers long after the final page has been turned.

Transit of Mercury

Author : Simon Jones
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789016274
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Transit of Mercury written by Simon Jones and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think you know who you are? Think again! Within 48 hours Tom Talbot goes from high-flyer to no-hoper, city banker to jobless fraudster, pinstripe commuter to terror suspect. His dog is killed and his home is ransacked, a ghostly Tibetan monk and an enigmatic Oxford professor give him tantalising glimpses of a forgotten destiny. As well as an identity crisis of Jungian proportions, visions of the past link him to a girl murdered on the Silk Road, the gifts of the Magi and the house of Medici. Concurrently, in New York, young hotshot lawyer Miranda Maddingley learns that her wealthy uncle has died suddenly, leaving his fortune to a cousin she’s never heard of, and leaving her with just an old ring. Smelling a rat, she tries to contact her cousin but learns he works deep inside the Vatican. Meanwhile, she unearths a mysterious family connection to Amerigo Vespucci, his voyages to America and a tragic Medici love triangle. Miranda meets Tom in Florence where she has fallen under the sinister Count Scala’s spell. In a race against time, following cryptic clues and supernatural phenomena around iconic buildings and works of art, with gangsters and fanatics in hot pursuit, they finally reach an astounding apocalyptic climax.