A biography of the late-fifteenth to mid-sixteenth-century Italian artist Michelangelo Buonarroti, whose first famous work, the Vatican Pieta, was displayed in St. Peter's Basilica when he was only twenty-five years old.

Product Description: Add some interest to a game of cards with this deck. Each card in the pack has a different image relating to the image on the box. Artwork by I.Ghiuselev. Cards measure approximately 5.8 x 8.8cm (2.5 x 3.5 inches)

Product Description: Since the Tarot is really a product of the Italian Renaissance, it is only appropriate that a Tarot deck be based on the genius of the quintessential Renaissance man: Leonardo Da Vinci. The art is sophisticated in line, color, composition, and symbolism...read more

A biography of Socrates, a philosopher and teacher in ancient Greece who held that wisdom comes from questioning ideas and values rather than simply accepting what is passed on by parents and teachers.

The adventures of a talking wooden puppet whose nose grows whenever he tells a lie. (view table of contents)

When the oak nymph Eurydice suddenly and tragically dies, Orpheus proves his undying love by following her to the underworld, determined to bring her back from the clutches of Hades.