FLORENCE: A Traveler's Guide to its Gems & Giants (1)

by Patty Civalleri

Plunge into a non-traditional  Florence Italy Travel Guide  that will get you hooked before you ever leave home. In this  guide book , you will not find information about food, bars or hotels in Florence. Any website or app will give you such information, right? Sure, while on your trip, you will want to enjoy  great Italian meals and wine . And you will. Because amazing food is on every single block of this city - but you won t need a guidebook to find them. The reason why Florence is important is because this is  where the Renaissance began. Florence is all about stories - stories about romance, mystery, adventure, pain and hardship, joy and laughter. Stories about that group of rock stars that you may already know something   Michelangelo ,  da Vinci ,  Botticelli ,  Donatello ,  Machiavelli ,  Raphael ,  Dante ,  Galileo  and more. But did you know that they were all from Florence? That most of these guys actually knew each other? And that these were the guys that started the Renaissance? See? You have just learned something cool... It s that easy! Think "PEOPLE" Magazine meets Michelangelo ~ Trivia and factoids of the  Florence Renaissance You will want to read this book during the plane flight over!

264 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2018

About the author

A triple-award winning author, a historian and global archaeology junkie, Patty Civalleri has traveled for 17 years to the deepest corners of our ancient past in search of lost civilizations all over our planet. She has had the privilege of doing so with some of the foremost archaeologists and scientists in the world.

She enjoyed the honor of serving on the Director's Council of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), and on the Board of the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at California State University in Long Beach (CSULB), and as the 2017 Commodore of the Alamitos Bay Chargers boating club in Long Beach, Ca.

As a writer, photographer, graphic designer, and technology professional, Patty has had the pleasure of building websites, photographing, and marketing for nearly 200 business clients around the country.

Life on the canals of Belmont Shore in Southern California with her husband Roger is one of social, culinary, and sailing delights.

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