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By Nardo, Don2003., Lucent Books/Thomson/Gale Call No: 937 NAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The history of weapons and warfareSummary Note: This book discusses the weapons used by the ancient Romans and their different means of warfare.
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By Nardo, Don2003., Lucent Books / Thomson/Gale Call No: 937 NAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: A travel guide toSummary Note: Examines the people, educational system, scientific and artistic discoveries, social structure, shopping, festivals, and famous artists of Rome in 143 A.D., in a travel guide format.
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2003., Rosen Publishing Group Call No: 921 AUGUSTUS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Leaders of ancient RomeSummary Note: Examines the rule of Augustus Caesar, including his rise to power, politics, and final days.
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[2017], Lake Union Publishing Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1940s Italy, teenager Pino Lella joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, falls for a beautiful widow, and becomes the personal driver of one of the Third Reich's most powerful commanders.
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[2017]., Lake Union Publishing Call No: Historical Fic Sullivan Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In World War II Italy, seventeen-year-old Pino Lella is thrust into the war when his home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs. He joins an underground railroad that helps Jews escape Italy, and meets beautiful widow Anna. His parents try to protect Lella by forcing him to enlist as a German soldier, but he soon finds himself working as the personal driver of General Hans Leyers, one of Adolf Hitler's most powerful commanders. Pino realizes the opportunity to spy for the Allies and courageously endures the horrors of war to secretly fight for a future with Anna.
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c2007., Compass Point Books Call No: B MUS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Signature livesSummary Note: A brief biography of fascist Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, that chronicles his childhood, relationship with German leader Adolf Hitler during World War II, and assassination by his own people in 1945.
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2005., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: HISTORICAL F GAV Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the early seventeenth century, young Venetian Filippo Veroneo travels from Venice to Afghanistan to rescue his imprisoned father, Geronimo, and stops in India to raise the ransom by selling his father's beautiful diamond to the ruler Shah Jehan, who later uses the stone as the model for the Taj Mahal.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Dutton Books Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION MCC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
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[2018], Adolescent, Dutton Books Call No: REALISTIC F MCC Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Dutton Books Call No: Historical Fiction FIC MCM Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Dutton Books Call No: Historical fiction FIC MCCULLOUGH Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
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2019., Adolescent, Penguin Books Call No: Historical FIC McCullough Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Artemisia Gentileschi is only twelve when her mother dies. She is given a choice--become a nun, or commit to a life of grinding pigment for her father's paints. She chooses the paint. By seventeen, Artemisia has become one of Italy's most talented painters--but in Rome in 1610 men take whatever credit they want from women, and Artemisia's work goes unnoticed. After she is raped, she decides to take her future into her own hands.
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1995., Thames and Hudson Call No: 937 SCA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents biographical sketches of fifty-six Roman emperors from Augustus in 31 B.C. to Romulus Augustulus in A.D. 476. Includes timelines, family trees, and information on special topics.
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By Avi,, 1937-2022., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: Fic Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Mangus the Magician and his thirteen-year-old servant, Fabrizio, are commanded to go to Venice, on pain of death, to find a book by Friar Luca Pacioli that reportedly contains a magical means of making money; but Venice is a strange and dangerous city, and someone else is also after the book. Mangus is arrested, and taken to the prison, and Fabrizio and Bianca, an orphan he has met, must find a way to secure the book, save Magnus, and themselves.
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By Nardo, Don1998., Lucent Books Call No: 937 NAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: World history seriesSummary Note: Focuses on the often chaotic events and larger-than-life personalities of the fateful last republican century and discusses the power struggles which gave way to a dictatorship.
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[2014]., Adolescent, Skyscape Call No: Historical FIC Strauss Book 2 Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After being entrusted with the secret recipe for a highly desirable pigment known as Passion blue, Giulia, a young woman training as a painter in a fifteenth century convent in Italy, disguises herself as a boy and travels to Venice to reinvent herself as an artist's apprentice.
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2003., Juvenile, Rosen Pub. Group Call No: 921 CONSTANTINE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Leaders of ancient RomeSummary Note: Describes the life and reign of the fourth-century Roman emperor, known for his struggle to reform the empire and for his promulgation of Christianity.
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By Gould, Sashac2011., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: Mystery FIC Gould Book 1 Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic, Mystery Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: When Laura della Scala's older sister drowns, Laura leaves the shelter of the convent where she has spent the last six years and enters the upper echelons of sixteenth-century Venetian society, while she searches for the truth about what happened to her sister.
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-- D. Gray-Man.[2006]., Viz Media Call No: GN D. Gray-man. Edition: Shonen Jump advanced graphic novel ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Shonen Jump advanced graphic novelSummary Note: Fifteen-year-old exorcist Allen continues his mission to find Innocence to battle the deathly demons that plague his world. He arrives in Southern Italy and teams up with another exorcist and a "finder" to vanquish the demon there.
