Author: Miles Unger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743254341
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
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.
Magnifico
Author: Miles Unger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743254341
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743254341
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
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.
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre
Author: Marquerite de Valois
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Guide to Printed Books and Manuscripts Relating to English and Foreign Heraldry and Genealogy
Author: George Gatfield
Publisher: London : Mitchell and Hughes
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher: London : Mitchell and Hughes
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: The general library
Author: London Institution. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: Systematically Classed. Preceded by an Historical and Bibliographical Account of the Establishment. [Compiled by William Upcott, Richard Thomson and Edward W. Brayley.]
Author: London Institution (London)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
The Medici Dagger
Author: Cameron West
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743424514
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743424514
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
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.
Catherine de Medici
Author: Leonie Frieda
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063235919
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The inspiration for the STARZ original series, The Serpent Queen, premiering September 11. “A beautifully written portrait of a ruthless, subtle and fearless woman fighting for survival and power in a world of gangsterish brutality, routine assassination and religious mania. . . . Frieda has brought a largely forgotten heroine-villainess and a whole sumptuously vicious era back to life. . . . This is The Godfather meets Elizabeth.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar Poisoner, besotted mother, despot, necromancer, engineer of a massacre: the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen of France to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds. Based on comprehensive research including thousands of Catherine’s own letters, Frieda unfurls Catherine’s story from her troubled childhood in Florence to her tumultuous marriage to Henry II of France; her transformation of French culture to her reign as a queen who would use brutality to ensure her children’s royal birthright. Brilliantly executed, this enthralling biography goes beyond myth to paint a very human portrait of this remarkable figure.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063235919
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The inspiration for the STARZ original series, The Serpent Queen, premiering September 11. “A beautifully written portrait of a ruthless, subtle and fearless woman fighting for survival and power in a world of gangsterish brutality, routine assassination and religious mania. . . . Frieda has brought a largely forgotten heroine-villainess and a whole sumptuously vicious era back to life. . . . This is The Godfather meets Elizabeth.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar Poisoner, besotted mother, despot, necromancer, engineer of a massacre: the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen of France to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds. Based on comprehensive research including thousands of Catherine’s own letters, Frieda unfurls Catherine’s story from her troubled childhood in Florence to her tumultuous marriage to Henry II of France; her transformation of French culture to her reign as a queen who would use brutality to ensure her children’s royal birthright. Brilliantly executed, this enthralling biography goes beyond myth to paint a very human portrait of this remarkable figure.
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
Author: C. W. Gortner
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 0345501861
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Leaving her native Florence to marry Henry II of France, Catherine de Medici embarks on an unanticipated destiny of religious warfare, thwarted leadership and psychologically charged royal machinations. By the author of The Last Queen.
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 0345501861
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Leaving her native Florence to marry Henry II of France, Catherine de Medici embarks on an unanticipated destiny of religious warfare, thwarted leadership and psychologically charged royal machinations. By the author of The Last Queen.
The British Critic
Author: James Shergold Boone
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368511432
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 745
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1798.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368511432
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 745
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1798.