Renaissance Fiction

Une écriture d'une beauté inouïe, portée par la voix de Marie Bouvet. C'est un grand jour à Ferrare. On y célèbre les noces du duc Alfonso et de Lucrèce de Médicis. La fête est extravagante et la foule n'a d'yeux que pour le couple. La mariée a quinze ans. Rien ne l'avait préparée à ce rôle. Elle n'était que la troisième fille du grand duc de Toscane, la discrète, la sensible, celle dont ses parents ne savaient que faire. Mais le décès soudain de sœur aînée a changé son histoire.

Chi se non Paolo Poli poteva calarsi nei panni di Don Abbondio e della Monaca di Monza, dando una voce inconfondibile a ciascuno dei memorabili personaggi manzoniani e tirandoci dentro nelle vicende umane e storiche del grande romanzo? Il libro di tutti e per tutti, in una lettura che è un vero spettacolo!

L’opera al nero è la storia di un personaggio immaginario, Zenone, medico, alchimista, filosofo, dalla nascita illegittima a Bruges nei primi anni...

Roma, settembre 1683. In una locanda nel cuore della Città Santa la morte improvvisa di un viaggiatore semina il panico: veleno o peste? Per paura del contagio, gli ospiti vengono rinchiusi in quarantena nelle proprie stanze. Tra loro c'è l'abate Atto Melani, ex cantante castrato e ora agente segreto del Re Sole, deciso a scoprire cosa si celi dietro quella strana morte. Atto dovrà scontrarsi con le reticenze e le paure degli altri ospiti, con lo spettro della peste che aleggia sulla locanda.

So the vampire Queen was behind all the disappearances after all. Will swears to me he had no idea what his mother was doing? But how can I trust him? How am I to believe anything he says after being confronted by...his fiancé? Apparently, just because he loves me doesn’t mean he feels the need to tell me the truth. His endless secrets have my head spinning.The only question is: when I kill the Queen with my newfound powers, will he be my side? ...Or hers?

1812. Arriving back in England after his successes in the Adriatic, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is bestowed with honours. In London, he's greeted by the Prince Regent, who, despite Kydd's protestations that he's happy with his present command, insists he be given a bigger ship - HMS Thunderer, a 74-gun ship of the line. But she's old, and being part of a standing fleet, Kydd's chances of further fame and distinction are slim indeed.

Langston Hughes was only twenty-four when he published his debut collection of poetry, The Weary Blues. The poems included here blend vernacular speech and musical rhythms to offer a bracing perspective on the African American experience. Traversing a wide range of settings—including the jazz clubs of Harlem, expansive natural landscapes, and seaside taverns—Hughes’s voice as a poet ties these various places together.

Tre redattori editoriali, dopo aver frequentato a lungo autori che si dilettano di scienze occulte, società segrete e complotti cosmici, decidono di inventare, con avventata leggerezza, un Piano. Ma qualcuno li prende sul serio. Affabulatorio, incalzante e coltissimo, è questo un romanzo che spazia furiosamente nel tempo, dove fanno la loro comparsa una sterminata serie di personaggi, di miti, di leggende, dai Templari ai Rosacroce, dai Miti Celtici ai Culti dell'antico Egitto, dal Santo Graal ai Vangeli Apocrifi, da Napoleone a Hitler, a Cagliostro.

Georgia would love nothing more than to raise horses every day and avoid her annoying stepbrother at all costs. But she could never have guessed that a tiny, antique winged horse figurine would be the key to her escape to another world and another time. When Georgia arrives in a 16th-century city called Remora, she is plunged into a dangerous and treacherous world of horse-racing, family honor, and deadly rivalry.

Florence, 1497 - Bûcher des vanités. Ce matin, des bandes d'enfants ont terrorisé la rue pour confisquer tous les objets incarnant la richesse ou le plaisir. Savonarole peut compter sur son "armée des anges". Le feu qui consumera tout à l'heure le paganisme et l'impiété sera son triomphe. Songeur, Sandro Botticelli observe l'une de ses plus belles œuvres se faire dévorer par les flammes, quand une main se pose sur son épaule. Léonard de Vinci, son vieil ami, son plus grand ami est revenu en terre florentine !Mais l'artiste apporte une triste nouvelle : sa mère, Caterina, est morte, lui laissant pour tout héritage une étrange lettre indéchiffrable.

This is a fantastic first novel in a trilogy. Set in a parallel world, in an Italy that in this world is called Talia and in a Venice that in this world is called Bellezza, the narrative follows Lucien, who in this world is ill with cancer. Given a marbled notebook to help him communicate when his throat hurts too much to speak, this notebook is the means that transports Lucien to this magical, dangerous new world. This is a world which is set in the C16, and thrills to the delight of political intrigue, including assassination attempts both foiled and successful.

How to Be Both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving, genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life's givens get given a second chance.

This is a new edition of Mark Twain's masterpiece, Huckleberry Finn, published by American Renaissance Books. The audiobook is narrated by Theo Holland, who brings to life the humor and drama of this timeless tale.

Louise Lloyd is finally living the quiet life she’d longed for, working in a parfumerie by day and spending time with her new friends every night at the Aquarius club in Paris. When a desperate mother asks for help locating her artist daughter, Louise initially refuses to keep her hard-won but fragile peace intact. But the woman comes with a letter of introduction from an old friend in Harlem, and Louise realizes she has no choice but to do what she can to find the missing young woman.

This book compiles both the first (1855) and final (1892) versions of Walt Whitman's masterpiece Song of Myself in one volume, making it unique and valuable for students of American literature.

The Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea (Spanish: Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea), known in Spain as La Celestina, is a work entirely in dialogue published in 1499. It is attributed to Fernando de Rojas, a descendant of converted Jews, who practiced law and, later in life, served as an alderman of Talavera de la Reina, an important commercial center near Toledo.

Королева Марго — один из самых известных романов, вышедших из-под пера мастера историко-приключенческой литературы Александра Дюма. Роман повествует о гугенотских войнах, о кровавом противостоянии протестантов и католиков, а также о придворных интригах, в которые поневоле оказывается втянутой королева Марго.

Il Romanzo italiano per eccellenza che avrà un'influenza decisiva nella unificazione linguistica dell'Italia. Un grandioso affresco storico dove vengono magistralmente delineate le nostre radici culturali, sociali e politiche. Renzo e Lucia, don Abbondio, padre Cristoforo, don Rodrigo, l'Innominato, l'Azzeccagarbugli, la monaca di Monza... personaggi che sono entrati a far parte della nostra cultura e dei nostri modi di dire.

Artists flock here, not just for wealth and fame, but for revolutionary color. Yet artist Giorgione “Zorzo” Barbarelli’s career hangs in the balance. Competition is fierce, and his debts are piling up. When Zorzo hears a rumor of a mysterious new pigment, brought to Venice by the richest man in Europe, he sets out to acquire the color and secure his name in history.

Heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, Margaret Beaufort never surrenders her belief that her house is the true ruler of England and that she has a great destiny before her. Her ambitions are disappointed when her sainted cousin Henry VI fails to recognize her as a kindred spirit, and she is even more dismayed when he sinks into madness.