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Fritz, Jean.

Summary: Examines the life of Leonardo da Vinci, focusing on his unfinished sculpture of a huge horse he was commissioned to create for the Duke of Milan in the late 1400s, and discusses how the project was taken up by pilot Charlie Dent in 1977 and, after several setbacks, completed and presented as a gift to Milan in 1999.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2001

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 730 FRI

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 730 FRI

Summary: The wealthy Recchi family has undergone sweeping changes. Eduardo Sr. has named a successor to the reins of his company, and surprised everyone by splitting power between his son Tancredi and grandson Edo. But Edo had always dreamed of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio. To make matters worse, the very foundation of the entire family may be totally shattered after Tancredi's wife Emma...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN I

Greeley, Andrew M.

Summary: Talented singer and psychic sleuth Nuala Anne McGrail finds herself in over her head when she tries to save potential murder victim Seamus Costelloe, a sinister Chicago tough guy, from his fate.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates Book 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GRE

Summary: A widowed woman and her five sons move from the depressed south of Italy to Milan and become immersed in personal conflict and political injustice.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROC

Eco, Umberto

Summary: In 1992 Milan, Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't resist to ghostwrite a book, His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team, he learns the editor's paranoid theory that Mussolini's corpse was a body double and part of a wider Fascist plot. It's the scoop the newspaper desperately needs....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ECO

Ejaita, Diana

Summary: Two cousins--one in Lagos, Nigeria, and the other in Milan, Italy--have different lives, but they share a dream of meeting and being together.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rise x Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE EJA

Stuckart, Diane A. S.

Summary: After the deaths of two female servants, Leonardo da Vinci asks his apprentice, Dino, to go undercover disguised as a woman in the service of the Duke's ward. The task should prove easy since "Dino" is in reality Delfina, a young woman masquerading as a boy to serve as Leonardo's apprentice. But complications in the case soon have the young apprentice torn between her loyalty to Leonardo and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STU

Elkins, Aaron J.

Summary: Art curator Val Caruso is not a happy camper. His promotion has just been nixed, his divorce has become final, and he's dug himself into a nice little rut for his fortieth birthday. The uplift? A trip to Milan to help Holocaust survivor Sol Bezzecca recover a pair of cherished sketches by Renoir. They'd once been given to Sol's family by the then-unknown artist, looted by the Italian Fascist...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELK

Stuckart, Diane A. S.

Summary: As a court engineer to the Duke of Milan, Leonardo da Vinci turns his superior mind to a variety of pursuits-- from advances in painting to the invention of war machines. But now, with his determined apprentice Dino to aid him, he is about to conduct an investigation into the murder of the duke's ambassador to France.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STU

Summary: Casanova has to begin searching for a wife. He is a womanizer with many conquests and If he cannot show he is living a more respectable life, the Church will throw him out of Venice. He is quickly engaged to Victoria, a woman with a pure reputation. As soon as that is arranged, he meets Francesca, a feminist who hates all he stands for. He pretends to be someone else to get into her good...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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