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Renaissance Rome: 1400–1600
Rome · 1400–1600 · exact time + place
The rebirth of art, culture, and power in Rome — figures like Michelangelo and Raphael shaping history and storytelling, Borgia popes and Sistine scaffolds. The button below opens StoryTerra with both Rome and 1400–1600 already set.
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Saint Philip Neri I Prefer Heaven
An epic feature film on the famous "Apostle of Rome" and great friend of youth in the 16th century. One of the most popular saints of all time St. Philip Neri was widely known for his great charity deep prayer life and…
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo’s David, New American Library releases a special edition of Irving Stone’s classic biographical novel—in which both the artist and the man are brought to life in full. A…
State buoni se potete
Around the year 1500 the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel. He is no clergyman by the book but a true believer in terms good and bad and he teaches this to his…
In The Name of the Family
`It is better to be feared than loved' - Niccolo Machiavelli In the bear pit of renaissance politics, a young Florentine diplomat finds himself first hand observer on the history's most notorious family - the Borgias.In…
The Dark Rose
1501: Henry VIIIPaul, great-grandson of Elanor Morland, has inherited the Morland estates, and his own Amyas is set to be his heir. But Paul fathers a beloved illigitimate son, and bitter jealousy causes a destructive…
Ignatius of Loyola
Historical biographical religious drama film based on the memoirs of Ignatius of Loyola founder of the Jesuit order who was also canonized as a saint in Roman Catholicism.
In the Company of the Courtesan
My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor's army blew a hole in the wall of God's eternal city, letting in a flood of…
Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection
Make history as the legendary Master Assassin, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, in Assassin’s Creed The Ezio Collection, which includes the acclaimed single-player campaigns and single-player add-on content (no multiplayer…
Henry VIII
Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey the powerful Lord Chancellor of England attempts to bend Rome to the King's…
The Devil in Love
Two devils from Hell are sent to Earth to cause trouble. Belfagor and his faithful sidekick Adramalek must start a war between Rome and Florence in 1478.
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