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  • Saint Catherine of Siena

    The Story of the Girl Who Saw Saints in the Sky

    by Alice Curtayne ...
    One of the greatest, most interesting, most influential and most popular saints in Church history. She was a stigmatist, miracle-worker, Doctor of the Church, Patroness of Italy, she brought the Papacy back to Rome from France, lived many years without eating, and brought thousands of souls to Christ, yet she died at only 33--an amazing story! 288 pgs, ... Read more

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  • Saint Catherine of Siena

    by Alice Curtayne ...
    Saint Catherine of Siena is one of the greatest saints in Church history. Declared a Doctor of the Church in 1970, she is the modern-day role model for saintly, out-spoken femininity. This refreshed biography places St. Catherine firmly in her time, showing how she greatly impacted the Church and society of her day. Her influence was felt by all those who came into contact with her- including the ... Read more

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  • Saint Catherine of Siena

    by Alice Curtayne ...
    Why does God work in mysterious ways? One of the greatest saints ever to live, Catherine of Siena is mostly known for inspiring the pope to return to Rome from France, but her story begins as a young woman who thinks she is called to be a hermit! How did God turn this aspiring hermitess into someone who was called to argue with the pope himself and his whole entire court? See how little Catherine ... Read more

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  • Saint Catherine of Siena

    by Alice Curtayne ...
    "This one is a wise virgin, and one from the number of the prudent." —Introit for the Mass of a Virgin not a MartyressThe life of Saint Catherine of Siena makes one forget for a moment that the other saints are saints; for her life is of such astoundingly glorious sanctity that even the great saints seem to pale in comparison to her magnificence. Truly one of the wise virgins, she was born to a ... Read more

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  • The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

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  • The Medici

    Annotated and Illustrated in Two Complete Volumes

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    The Medici: Annotated and Illustrated in Two Complete Volumes by George Frederick Young. The Secrecy, the conspirators, the Rise and Fall of the House of the Medici. In this exquisitely written book, you get the history of thirteen generations of a family who brought Western Europe out of the cultural darkness of their time, the city of Florence to the pinnacle of its glory, and the art of masters ... Read more

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  • The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

    by Jacob Burckhardt ...
    Translated by S. Middlemore ...
    For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice and Rome as providing the seeds of a new form of society, ... Read more

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  • Catherine of Siena

    by Sigrid Undset ...
    Sigrid Undset’s Catherine of Siena was critically acclaimed as one of the best biographies of this well-known and amazing fourteenth-century saint. Known for her historical fiction, which won her the Nobel Prize for literature in 1928, Undset based this factual work on primary sources about Catherine of Siena, her own experiences living in Italy, and her profound understanding of the human heart. ... Read more

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  • Lorenzo De Medici Rules in Florence

    by Oliphant Smeaton, and The Editors of New Word City ...
    In the fifteenth century, the Italian city-state of Florence reached the pinnacle of its renown under the Medici, a family celebrated for the statesmen it produced and its patronage of the arts and letters. Its most illustrious members were Cosmo and his grandson Lorenzo, surnamed the Magnificent. With his brother Giuliano, Lorenzo, on the death of their father Piero, succeeded to the vast wealth ... Read more

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  • A Short History of Italy (476-1900)

    by Henry Dwight Sedgwick ...
    A Short History of Italy by the American lawyer and author, Henry Dwight Sedgwick.Sedgwick graduated from Harvard University in 1882, and studied law in Boston until 1884 when he was admitted to the bar. He practiced law in New York City from 1885 to 1898. He was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and was elected in 1893 as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ... Read more

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  • A Short History of the Renaissance

    by Edith Sichel ...
    MICHAEL ANGELO'S great painting of the newly created Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel might be taken as a symbol of the Renaissance, of the time when man was, as it were, re-created more glorious than before, with a body naked and unashamed, and a strong arm, unimpaired by fasting, outstretched towards life and light. Definitions are generally misleading, and it is easier to represent the ... Read more

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