Renaissance Italy


The Birth of Venus
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
In the Company of the Courtesan
Blood & Beauty (The Borgias #1)
The Borgia Bride
The Serpent and the Pearl  (The Borgias, #1)
The Botticelli Secret
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519
The Scarlet Contessa
I, Mona Lisa
The Marriage Portrait
In the Name of the Family (The Borgias #2)
Leonardo's Swans
The Passion of Artemisia
The Competition by Donna Russo MorinPortrait of a Conspiracy by Donna Russo MorinOil and Marble by Stephanie StoreyLeonardo's Swans by Karen EssexDa Vinci's Tiger by L.M. Elliott
Leonardo da Vinci - Fiction
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Crystal King
“ The arrival of the food snapped me out of my reverie. Like many chefs in Roma, the Farnese chef had taken much inspiration from Bartolomeo over the years. The first course included slices of Parmesan; olives from Tivoli; cherries in little gilded cups; a salad of sliced citron with sugar and rosewater; veal rolls dredged in coriander, spit-roasted, then topped with raisins soaked in wine; peas in the pod served with pepper and vinegar; salted buffalo tongue, cooked, then sliced and served cold w ...more ”
― Crystal King, The Chef's Secret

“ Ambivalence and contradiction energize nearly every figure Michaelangelo carved, from the adolescent Madonna of the Stairs onward...But the four allegories atop the sarcophagi raise them to a symphonic crescendo. Each is a battleground of conflicting emotions and motives, in which will and paralysis battle for supremacy. ”
― Eric Scigliano, Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara

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