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Renaissance Italy: 1300–1700
Italy · 1300–1700 · exact time + place
Birthplace of the Renaissance — Italy blossomed with art, science, and philosophy that transformed Europe's history and culture. Florence, Venice, Rome. The button below opens StoryTerra with both Italy and 1300–1700 already set.
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Browse 70 books, 86 movies, 6 TV shows and 5 games set in Italy.
The Name of the Rose
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes William must rise up…
Black Sunday
A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant. Only the girl's brother and a handsome doctor stand in her…
Benedetta
A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
Much Ado About Nothing
In this Shakespearean farce Hero and her groom-to-be Claudio team up with Claudio's commanding officer Don Pedro the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick…
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio
Edition bilingue.
Rosaline
Left heartbroken after Romeo begins to pursue her cousin Juliet Rosaline schemes to foil the famous romance and win back her guy in this comedic twist of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Romeo & Juliet
In Verona bad blood between the Montague and Capulet families leads to much bitterness. Despite the hostility Romeo Montague manages an invitation to a masked ball at the estate of the Capulets and meets Juliet their…
The Merchant of Venice
Venice 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio a prosperous merchant to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad so they turn to Shylock…
Da Vinci's Demons
The series follows the "untold" story of Leonardo Da Vinci: the genius during his early years in Renaissance Florence. As a 25-year old artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist, he struggles to live…
Dangerous Beauty
Veronica is brilliant gifted and beautiful but the handsome aristocrat she loves Marco Venier cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica's mother Paola teaches her to become a…
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