Renaissance Fiction

English artist Alice Bulbeck and her twin brother, Edward, approach Axel Webb to find a lost Shakespeare play entitled The History of Cardenio. The play, performed only once for James I, has been lost for 400 years. It wasn’t included in the 1623 First Folio published by Shakespeare’s friends after his death. It is the only known play credited to William Shakespeare that has never been published. The question is, why?

Shakespeare's plays have been beloved for so many years that his characters and words have shaped our world today. This collection has adapted these works adapted for younger listeners, introducing them to iconic characters such as Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and Queen Cleopatra of Egypt.

Un tuono, una raffica di vento, il merlo Mercurio spalanca le sue ali e Nina, Jamal e Lori si ritrovano nella Città Eterna: Roma. Ma... nel periodo barocco. Entrati in Santa Maria del Popolo, si imbattono in Artemisia Gentileschi, intenta ad ammirare le tele di Caravaggio. La grande artista è inquieta: la sua amica Ciecherella è scomparsa. E con lei la formula segreta del suo giallo, il colore delle eroine nei suoi quadri. La verità sulla sparizione è più oscura di quanto sembra. Indagando tra bassifondi e palazzi nobiliari, i tre ragazzi sapranno far luce su questo mistero?

It is May 1706. Ana, a young Spanish woman, lives in a small town on the north-west coast of Tenerife with her mother and twin younger brothers. The town is in the shadow of a mighty volcano, which legend says has the devil living inside it. However, there has been no eruption for thousands of years, and no one believes it is a threat. One day, Ana notices that the air feels strange and heavy, that the birds have stopped singing. Tending the family vineyard, a sudden strange tremor in the earth frightens her.

Dove è finito Mercurio? Se lo chiedono angosciati Nina, Jamal e Lorenzo davanti alla Cappella degli Scrovegni, dove si ritrovano in calzamaglie e babbucce. Il merlo magico, che li ha appena catapultati nella Padova di sette secoli fa, è scomparso e loro rischiano di restare intrappolati per sempre nel passato. La vita è piena di insidie nel Medioevo, ma ad accompagnarli nelle loro peripezie ci saranno due fiorentini un po' speciali: Giotto, che sta affrescando le pareti della chiesetta, e Dante, a cui sta venendo in mente una nuova idea per un poema.

Jianetta is the newest arrival to the court of the powerful Gonzaga family, and she comes with a plan. She’ll need to use all her cunning to steal the secrets of the Gonzaga’s new and beautiful horse breed to rescue her own family’s crumbling finances. But her mission to betray the family is turned upside down as she meets the young heir to the Gonzaga fortune, Armand, who has ambition and heavy secrets of his own.

Erasmus von Rotterdam war nicht nur Theologe, Philosoph, Philologe, Priester, Autor und Herausgeber von über 150 Büchern, sondern lebte als Kosmopolit in England, Italien, Frankreich, Deutschland und der Schweiz. In seiner Satire "Das Lob der Torheit" prangert der niederländische Universalgelehrte scharfsinnig wie überzeichnet die Missstände in Politik, Gesellschaft und in der Kirche im ausgehenden Mittelalter an. Matthias Ponnier liest aus dem bekanntesten Werk des großen Humanisten der Renaissance.

When the curtains rise on Angelina Weld Grimké’s devastating drama, the Lovings—a Black family from the South—have settled into a small but immaculate apartment in an unnamed northern city. The widowed matriarch, Mary; her daughter, Rachel; and her son, Tom anticipate a more promising future here, but Rachel, a sensitive young woman, has a sudden reckoning with the past that throws her future into serious doubt.

Tutoyant avec aisance, à rebours des modes, une forme classique très maîtrisée, Michel Houellebecq met en scène dans ses poèmes un quotidien contemporain et urbain. Ses vers nous parlent de lui, nous parlent de nous et accèdent à lu'niversel, installant ainsi leur auteur, comme un Villon de la modernité, au rang des grands poètes populaires.

"Meser Leonardo da Vinci tiene un concepto tan herético que no se atiene a ninguna religión y estima más ser filósofo que cristiano. Por lo tanto, la resolución es firme y clara: debemos matar a Leonardo da Vinci."

Henry Dumas' fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity. From the Deep South to the simmering streets of Harlem, his characters embark on surreal and mythic quests armed only with wit, words, and wisdom. Championed by Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, and Quincy Troupe, Dumas' books have long been out of print. All of his short fiction is collected here, for the first time, and includes several previously unpublished stories.

Travel back in time to the 1920s and 1930s to the sounds of jazz in nightclubs and the 24-hours-a-day bustle of the famous Black neighborhood of Harlem in uptown Manhattan. It was a dazzling time when there was an outpouring of the arts of African Americans - the poetry of Langston Hughes; the novels of Zora Neale Hurston; the sculptures of Augusta Savage; and that brand-new music called jazz as only Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong could play it.

Al joven Ross Wilbur, refinado miembro de la alta sociedad de San Francisco, un “Manhattan suave” tomado en mala compañia le va a cambiar la vida radicalmente: se va a ver embarcado en una goleta donde se espera de el que trabaje como un marinero más.....

London, 1647: Es ist die Blütezeit des strengen Puritanismus. Dessen Anführer Oliver Cromwell lässt sogar das Weihnachtsfest verbieten, mit der Begründung, es sei mit heidnischen Bräuchen vermischt und daher unbiblisch. Auch der junge John ist ein Puritaner. Sein Vater starb an Trunksucht, und von seinen Zieheltern hat er gelernt, dass ein gottgefälliges Leben aus Entsagung und Disziplin besteht. Er ist fest entschlossen, alles zu tun, um nicht das Schicksal seines Vaters zu teilen.

Som a lany 1553. En Max, un jove tan atractiu com estafador, senamora d una de les dames de companyia de Lady Jane Grey, cosina del rei Eduard VI. La Margaret, la jove dama, sembla correspondrel. Disfressat de noble, en Max assisteix a les noces de Lady Jane per ser a prop de la noia. Un fet inesperat, però, trasbalsa la cerimònia. Una enigmàtica dona apareix de sobte i formula un misteriós presagi a la núvia.

During a late-night hunt for a wolf, Ulric and Daciana are attacked. Before their bodies can fully succumb to the wild animal inside, the town witch claims she holds the cure. Instead of healing their wounds, she places a curse on Ulric and Daciana, so they must live with who they truly are. In a town where secrets can’t be kept and betrayal runs thick, Ulric and Daciana are hunted for the monsters they’ve become, even by those they love.

Tal como los alquimistas medievales se obsesionaron con la piedra filosofal, un sacamuelas sevillano, que llega hasta el virreinato peruano huyendo de la Inquisición, se afana en la búsqueda del gusano de los dientes que taladra las muelas y anida en las encías, precipitando la corrupción del cuerpo y flagelando a los cristianos con una espina del dolor de la Pasión, porque el imperio español de los siglos XVI y XVII era también el imperio del dolor.

Marion, la parfumeuse attitrée de la reine est victime d’un enlèvement ! La favorite de Louis XIV pourrait-elle être l’instigatrice d’un tel complot ? Un classique de la littérature jeunesse.

In the late 1590s, Scotland was on the verge of many changes that would shape its future, such as religious reformation and the union of the crowns with England. But in many ways the country, was still rooted in its medieval past, and fear of witches and demons was still a large part of everyday life. Seton confronts his demons, both internal and external, as he wanders on the fringes of history.

A.D. 1526. Il racconto segue le paradossali peripezie tra l'Umbria e la Toscana del famoso poeta Pietro Aretino, ritratto in una veste tanto inaspettata per un cortigiano rinascimentale, quanto autentica: arguto, libertino, volgare e sfacciato, come si addice a quello che viene storicamente riconosciuto come l'ipotetico fautore del genere letterario ‘puttanesco'.