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2006., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Call No: B POL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents an illustrated account of the life and travels of Italian explorer Marco Polo.
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-- Scorpia[2016]., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: MYSTERY GN ALE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A graphic novelization of Anthony Horowitz's "Scorpia" in which fourteen-year-old Alex Rider goes to Italy after being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English school children.
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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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[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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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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[2018], Harper Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Traces the life of Elsa Schiaparelli from birth and childhood to the height of her success.
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By Howe, Norma2002, c2000., HarperTempest Call No: F How Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In his new identity as Blue Avenger, sixteen-year-old David visits Venice, Italy, and continues to pursue various crusades, including trying to solve the mystery of who really wrote Shakespeare's works.
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2005., Juvenile, World Almanac Library Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This book focuses on the life and works of Sandro Botticelli, whose religious and allegorical paintings are some of the most famous images in the history of European art.
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2005, Juvenile, World Almanac Library Call No: 759.5 Edition: North American ed., Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Lives of the artistsSummary Note: Presents a collection of full-color illustrated reproductions of the works of fifteenth-century artist, Sandro Botticelli, depicting his mastery of religious and allegorical paintings of the European Renaissance.
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c2003, Lerner Call No: 937 .6 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great building featsSummary Note: Provides information about the design and construction of the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, and discusses its use as an amphitheater for gladiator games and other blood sports.
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-- Renaissance painterc2003., Juvenile, Mason Crest Publishers Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Series Title: Great namesSummary Note: An illustrated biography of Leonardo da Vinci, discussing his early life, his training as an artist, his many unfinished projects, and his advanced thinking on a variety of topics including flight and weaponry.
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c1989., Juvenile, Childrens Press Call No: Biography DAVINCI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Getting to know the world's greatest artistsSummary Note: Traces the life of the Renaissance artist and analyzes some of his paintings.
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c2003., Front Street Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In fourteenth-century Italy, Antonia, the daughter of Dante Alighieri, longs for a stable family and home while developing her artistic talent and seeking a place for herself in a world with limited options for women.
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c2007., Harcourt Call No: HISTORICAL F MEY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description Series Title: Young Royals Volume: 5Summary Note: While her tyrannical family is out of favor in Italy, young Catherine de Medici is raised in convents, then in 1533, when she is fourteen, her uncle, Pope Clement VII, arranges for her marriage to prince Henri of France, who is destined to become king.
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c1999., Oxford University Press Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose work led to the discovery of nuclear fission, the basis of nuclear power and the atom bomb.
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-- Michelangelo2000, Wonderland Press Henry N. Abrams Distributed by Andrews McMeel Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Essential seriesSummary Note: Offers a brief introduction to the life and work of Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor Michelangelo Buonarroti.
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c1995., Chelsea House Call No: Biography GALILEO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Science discoveriesSummary Note: Examines the life and discoveries of Galileo, the Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist who laid the foundation for modern experimental science.