The first time I visited Venice as a wide­eyed teenager, I knew I was supposed to buy Murano glass, but I had no idea why. All I knew was t...

Publication Date: April 1st, 2014 Publisher: NAL Trade 448 pages ISBN-13:  978-0451418876 Synopsis From The Book Jacket: Elizabeth ...

It's eight years after the tumultuous events of THE MASTER OF VERONA. Pietro Alaghieri has been living as an exile in Ravenna, enduri...

Earlier this year when I was asked to name my most anticipated Historical Fiction new release for 2012, I didn't have to go too far. The...

The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strappi...

"Russo Morin skillfully blends historical fiction and fantasy in surprising ways. She draws effortlessly upon influences ranging fr...

Giustiniana Wynne meets Andrea Memmo when she is only sixteen, and he is not much older. They fall passionately in love, but are prevented f...

When conservationist Simon Raikes goes to Venice to restore a statue of the Madonna, he is unprepared for the effect this stone virgin's...

Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous merchant father brings a young painter back with him from Holland to adorn the walls of ...

"In a castle in the mountains outside Rome, Lucrezia Borgia is born into history's most notorious family. Her father, who is to bec...

Stirring Portrait of Renascence Italy Historical records tell us very little about Leonardo Da Vinci's mother, Caterina. All that i...

In 1314, seventeen year old Pietro Alighieri travels to Verona with his father, the infamous poet Dante, at the invitation of its leader, t...

When Ugo DiFonte and his teenaged daughter Miranda are snatched from their farm and spirited away to Duke Federico Basillione DiVincelli’s...

I'm always very interested in books about the Borgias and I couldn't resist to pick this one up. The book is written in the first pe...