The Medici Boy
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The Medici Boy
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Author : John L'Heureux
language : en
Publisher: House of Stratus
Release Date : 2014-04-07
The Medici Boy written by John L'Heureux and has been published by House of Stratus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-07 with Fiction categories.
While creating his famous bronze of David and Goliath, Donatello’s passion for his beautiful model and part time rent boy, Agnolo, ignites a dangerous jealousy that ultimately leads to murder. Luca, the complex and conflicted assistant, will sacrifice all to save Donatello, even his master’s friend--the great patron of art, Cosimo de’ Medici.
The Medici Seal
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Author : Theresa Breslin
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-06-30
The Medici Seal written by Theresa Breslin and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-30 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A gloriously rich and authentic story of the Renaissance, The Medici Seal is perfect for fans of The Da Vinci Code, The Borgias or Netflix hit Medici: Masters of Florence! Romagna, Italy 1502. On the run and fleeing for his life, a young boy - Matteo - is saved from drowning by mysterious men, who turn out to be companions of Leonardo da Vinci. From this moment on, Matteo's life is changed forever, and he thrills at working alongside Da Vinci as he carries out his incredible work. But Da Vinci's cruel and ruthless employer, Cesare Borgia, seems set to ruin Matteo's happines, and as Da Vinci and Matteo travel across Italy on the Borgia's business, murder, deceit and revenge follow in their trail. For Matteo carries with him a secret - a life-changing secret that both the Borgia and Medici families would kill to obtain. A secret that must, finally, come to light for all to see . . .
The Tragedies Of The Medici
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Author : Edgcumbe Staley
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-05-28
The Tragedies Of The Medici written by Edgcumbe Staley and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-28 with Fiction categories.
The Tragedies of Medici is an account of the Medici Family during the Rennaisance period, giving great insight into life in Rennaissance Italy. The book pays special attention to the life of Lorenzo Medici.
Murder Of A Medici Princess
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Author : Caroline P. Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-04-18
Murder Of A Medici Princess written by Caroline P. Murphy and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-18 with History categories.
In Murder of a Medici Princess, Caroline Murphy illuminates the brilliant life and tragic death of Isabella de Medici, one of the brightest stars in the dazzling world of Renaissance Italy, the daughter of Duke Cosimo I, ruler of Florence and Tuscany. Murphy is a superb storyteller, and her fast-paced narrative captures the intrigue, the scandal, the romantic affairs, and the violence that were commonplace in the Florentine court. She brings to life an extraordinary woman, fluent in five languages, a free-spirited patron of the arts, a daredevil, a practical joker, and a passionate lover. Isabella, in fact, conducted numerous affairs, including a ten-year relationship with the cousin of her violent and possessive husband. Her permissive lifestyle, however, came to an end upon the death of her father, who was succeeded by her disapproving older brother Francesco. Considering Isabella's ways to be licentious and a disgrace upon the family, he permitted her increasingly enraged husband to murder her in a remote Medici villa. To tell this dramatic story, Murphy draws on a vast trove of newly discovered and unpublished documents, ranging from Isabella's own letters, to the loose-tongued dispatches of ambassadors to Florence, to contemporary descriptions of the opulent parties and balls, salons and hunts in which Isabella and her associates participated. Murphy resurrects the exciting atmosphere of Renaissance Florence, weaving Isabella's beloved city into her story, evoking the intellectual and artistic community that thrived during her time. Palaces and gardens in the city become places of creativity and intrigue, sites of seduction, and grounds for betrayal. Here then is a narrative of compelling and epic proportions, magnificent and alluring, decadent and ultimately tragic.
Florentia And The Pazzi Boy
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Author : Ralph Feliciello
language : en
Publisher: Knt
Release Date : 2023-03-12
Florentia And The Pazzi Boy written by Ralph Feliciello and has been published by Knt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-12 with categories.
Coming of Age in an Age of Corruption Friendship and love are all very well, but what is an orphan to do when offered the chance to live pampered in a palazzo in the heart of Florence? A romantic historical fantasy in which three high-spirited friends, art lover Placido, gravedigger Renato, and fiery-haired Florentia, coming of age at the height of the Renaissance, struggle together, and sometimes at odds, to stay true to their best selves in a world of breathtaking beauty, ruthless violence, and heart-wrenching betrayal. In 1478, during Easter Mass in the cathedral of Florence, assassins cut down Giuliano de' Medici, while, in the servants' quarters of Palazzo Pazzi a kitchen maid gives birth to the natural child of the chief conspirator. Lorenzo de' Medici vows that "Jacopo Pazzi's little bastard" must die to avenge his father's crime. The infant, secreted out of Florence, grows to young manhood on a remote Tuscan island, unaware of his birth in a palazzo or that the Pazzi clan, coming to claim their long-lost heir, must outrace Medici vengeance bent on seeing the boy does not survive his eighteenth year. One of two childhood friends, Renato or Placido, will soon either be welcomed as the heir to a great fortune or face the Medici-hired killer knight believed to have filled more coffins than the plague. But which is the Pazzi boy? The stolen baptismal record found behind a painting of the Madonna and Child leads to a new mystery-the unspeakable secret buried in an unmarked grave. Meanwhile, Renato and beautiful but distant Florentia of the two gemlike eyes, one blue, one green, struggle to liberate themselves from the Machiavellian priest who schemes without mercy to keep them forever apart. Possible escape comes with the discovery beneath the charnel house of an ancient temple to the goddess Venus who promises her aid-if the young lovers pass the most heartbreaking test of all. "Phantasmagoric, and startlingly original, opens up a luminous Renaissance past, in a feverish tale of Medici Italy. Highly recommended for several reads - then to be shared with a friend." Jason Rosette, Camerado Media "Fellini-esque...a chiseled, dense, dreamy and poetic work that drops you into an entertaining, historical world only dimly resembling our own." Lantz Miller, City Limit and Beholt the Man From Readers: "Reads like a movie, with love, action, suspense, and humor. Ten pages in you'll begin to taste the popcorn." "A magical story fascinating to read, positively incantatory. This beautiful novella shimmers like a mirage. Masterful." "A riveting story of young love amidst corruption, disloyalty, and greed. In Florentia, the author has created a strong woman. A great read." "Fascinating historical fantasy with complex characters. Lively and imaginative storytelling. Highly intelligent literary content bursting with color, surprising plot twists, and a love story ending - it's a fable after all." Brief Excerpt: All at once the black canopy of night filled with stars lighting the way for Florentia moving down the slope and into the sea-an undulating mirror of the overhanging stars now floating on the water. The Moon descended to Florentia as if their meeting had been planned. As she waded forward, the bobbing stars rose around her, until she presented herself beneath the Moon wearing a mantle of watery, shape-changing stars. A mysterious communication passed between them. Then Florentia waded toward shore, the starry mantle slipping from her shoulders. The Moon ascended. A sudden wind blew out the stars. Florentia hurried up the slope where Renato saw she was trembling and heard her tears as she passed, to darken to a silhouette, that became a distant shadow, lost in the blackness all around.
Inheritance Of Power
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Author : Edward Charles
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2013-06-26
Inheritance Of Power written by Edward Charles and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-26 with Fiction categories.
“Takes a novel angle on Cosimo [de Medici]’s rise to power by telling the story of his mistress, the Circassian slave Maddalena . . . an incomparable cast.” —Historical Novel Society Ever-loyal Maddalena, a diminutive, dark-skinned, blue-eyed slave, has borne Cosimo de Medici a son and seen him rise to a position in the Church. Now, late in life, she finds herself committed to a convent, as part of a scheme to prevent Cosimo’s sons from sending the Medici bank into ruin by hiding a fortune in gold for Cosimo’s grandson, Lorenzo, to inherit. But as the months go by, and the gold does not appear, her faith in Cosimo begins to wane and with it, her confidence in her own worth. Has she been duped? Approaching old age, she finds in the abbess a confessor, to whom she can confide her true story and perhaps, at the same time, convince herself that her life has been worthwhile. But the abbess has objectives of her own, and the two of them may not be on the same side. Edward Charles presents an enthralling evocation of fifteenth-century Florence in a novel of intrigue, wealth, deception, and high political drama. The largest and most respected financial institution in Europe in its prime, the Medici bank came to represent the might of a family of great influence and power, who scaled the very heights of human grandeur but were to suffer through one of the most catastrophic financial crashes of early banking as the survival of a dynasty hung in the balance. “A vivid tapestry of Florentine history . . . Imaginatively structured.” —Booklist (starred review)
Historic Boys
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Author : Elbridge Streeter Brooks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
Historic Boys written by Elbridge Streeter Brooks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Adventure and adventurers categories.
Medici Women
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Author : Gabrielle Langdon
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Medici Women written by Gabrielle Langdon and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Art categories.
The ducal court of Cosimo I de' Medici in sixteenth-century Florence was one of absolutist, rule-bound order. Portraiture especially served the dynastic pretensions of the absolutist ruler, Duke Cosimo and his consort, Eleonora di Toledo, and was part of a Herculean programme of propaganda to establish legitimacy and prestige for the new sixteenth-century Florentine court. In this engaging and original study, Gabrielle Langdon analyses selected portraits of women by Jacopo Pontormo, Agnolo Bronzino, Alessandro Allori, and other masters. She defines their function as works of art, as dynastic declarations, and as encoded documents of court culture and propaganda, illuminating Cosimo's conscious fashioning of his court portraiture in imitation of the great courts of Europe. Langdon explores the use of portraiture as a vehicle to express Medici political policy, such as with Cosimo's Hapsburg and Papal alliances in his bid to be made Grand Duke with hegemony over rival Italian princes. Stories from archives, letters, diaries, chronicles, and secret ambassadorial briefs, open up a world of fascinating, personalities, personal triumphs, human frailty, rumour, intrigue, and appalling tragedies. Lavishly illustrated, Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love and Betrayal in the Court of Duke Cosimo I is an indispensable work for anyone with a passion for Italian renaissance history, art, and court culture.
Lorenzo De Medici
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Author : Edith Carpenter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
Lorenzo De Medici written by Edith Carpenter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with categories.
Planets On Tables
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Author : Bonnie Costello
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-05
Planets On Tables written by Bonnie Costello and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Poets have long been drawn to the images and techniques of still life. Artists and poets alike present intimate worlds where time is suspended in the play of form and color and where history disappears amid everyday things. The genre of still life with its focus on the domestic sphere seemed to some a retreat from the political and economic pressures of the last century. Yet many American artists and writers found in the arrangement of local objects a way to connect the individual to larger public concerns. Indeed, the debates over still life reveal just what is at stake in the long-standing quarrel over poetry's meaning and usefulness. By exploring literary works of still life by Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, and Richard Wilbur—as well as the art of Joseph Cornell—the eminent critic Bonnie Costello considers how exchanges between the arts help to establish vital thresholds between the personal and public realms. In her view, Stevens and Williams bring the turmoil of history into their struggle for local aesthetic order; Bishop "studies history" in the intimate objects and arrangements she finds in her travels; Cornell, an artist inspired by poetry and loved by poets, links his dream boxes to contemporary events; and Richard Wilbur seeks to mend a broken postwar world within the hospitable spheres of art and home. In Planets on Tables, Costello describes a period when some of America's greatest poets and artists found in still life a way to "contemplate the good in the midst of confusion," to bring the distant near, and to resist—rather than escape—the pressures of their times.