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1) The Inferno
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The Inferno is the first part of Dante Alighieri's famous epic The Divine Comedy. In it, Dante is guided through Hell by the Roman poet Virgil. This edition is translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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"SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. 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...
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English
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Told with consummate skill by the writer of the bestselling, award-winning A Civil Action, The Lost Painting is a remarkable synthesis of history and detective story.
An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome, Francesca...
An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome, Francesca...
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Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Discusses the life and work of six artists of the Italian Renaissance whose works represent important innovations and achievements in painting, sculpture, and architecture. Included are Giotto, Donatello, Brunelleschi, da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.
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Series
Arts of mankind ; 8
Publisher
Odyssey
Pub. Date
1966.
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English
Description
Gift of the John W. Cavanaugh Family Foundation.
