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1) Da Vinci & mysteries of the Renaissance

Publisher

Questar

Pub. Date

c2005

Language

English

Description

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Wide ranging examination of Europe and the changes wrought by the Renaissance pays particular attention to the life of Leonardo Da Vinci, but goes well beyond the world of art to highlight political and social changes of the time.

2) Medieval period and the Renaissance

Series

Curriculum connections

Publisher

Brown Bear Books

Pub. Date

c2010

Language

English

3) The swerve: how the world became modern

Author

Greenblatt, Stephen

Publisher

Recorded Books, Inc

Pub. Date

2011

Edition

Unabridged

Language

English

Description

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In this book the author transports readers to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion. In this work he has crafted both a work ofhistory and a story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred...

4) Da Vinci's cat

Author

Murdock, Catherine Gilbert

Pub. Date

2021.

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, Sound Disc

Description

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Using a mysterious wardrobe that allows them to travel through time, two eleven-year-olds, Federico a boy from the Italian Renaissance and Bee a girl from present-day New Jersey, work together to prevent the bickering between two great artists from changing the future.

5) The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

Author

Burckhardt, Jacob

Series

Mint Editions

Publisher

Duke Classics

Pub. Date

2015

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) is a work of art history by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Recognized today as the founder of modern art history and as one of the key thinkers of the nineteenth century, Burckhardt changed not only the way we think about the Renaissance in relation to European and world history, but the value placed on art as a tool for understanding historical developments. The Civilization of the Renaissance...

6) The King in Yellow

Author

Chambers, Robert W

Series

King in Yellow
Haunted Library Horror Classics

Language

English

Formats

eAudiobook, eBook

Description

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Ten twisted tales that have haunted generations of readers and writers from H. P. Lovecraft to the creators of the hit TV series True Detective Nightmare imagery courses through these stories like blood through the veins. In "The Repairer of Reputations," a Lethal Chamber stands at the edge of Washington Square Park, open to all who can no longer bear the sorrows of life. A Parisian sculptor discovers a liquid solution that can turn any living thing-a...