Twenty-Seven Ways to Commit Murder. It is 1498 and in the castle of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, there have been a number of assassination attempts made on his life. The latest happens when the Duke and his court visit the Certosa Monastery after ...
Leonardo da Vinci and his companion, Niccolo, a dwarf with a photographic memory, race about Renaissance Venice in search of a priceless diamond necklace, a quest that puts them in the middle of an assassination plot in the Mantuan court...
A Renaissance mystery featuring Leonardo da Vinci and his companion, Niccolo da Pavia, as they join together in Florence to solve the mystery of two assassinations and widespread vandalisms of artworks involving the Borgias and the exiled Medici fami...
The brutal "execution" of the patriot woman of Faenza, Diamante, in violation of the laws of sanctuary, creates a division between Cesare Borgia and his sinister condottieri. Maestro Leonardo da Vinci, quietly attempting to reconcile his new profess...
A charismatic priest suddenly appears in Rome and claims to be both holy man and a master of black arts. He conducts "summonings" in the old Roman Coliseum where thousands of demons appear and call for the deaths of certain cardinals and eventually ...
With unique illustrations based on classical Chinese painting, this multicultural children's story tells a classic folktale that children will love.Long ago, in a far-off land, two tribes shared a common legend -- they believed the mountains betwee...
Florence is at war with Pisa. Leonardo is commissioned to divert the river cutting off Pisa from the sea and thereby protecting Florence. At this time the political and social climate in Florence is unfavorable to Leonardo and he is encouraged to acc...
Leonardo is targeted for assassination and Incurs a debt to Cesare Borgia Leonardo da Vinci and his Latin tutor, the dwarf, Niccolo da Pavia return to Florence to discover a group of mysterious “mourners” are mutilating famous art by Donatello, U...
Much of Italy has been under the thumb of Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI and his son Cesare Borgia. For more than a decade, villages were crushed under the heel of Duke Cesare, but the family’s decline after the death of Pope Alexander VI, arous...
Invited by the King of France to come and be in residence at his court, an aging leonardo da Vinci turns his back on Italy and the constant wars, says his farewells to his friends and associates including the Bergamini diplomat Niccolo da Pavia and s...