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  The Broker

  by John Grisham

  The plot revolves round a once lawyer cum broker, who is imprisoned for about six years. The FBI wants to set him free & to look for his predators to find a solution for a military operation. So, the outgoing American President is literally pushed to grant his freedom. Suddenly after the freedom, the broker is forced to live in an entirely new atmosphere. To accustom in his new environment , he is... (more)
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  Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance: Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)

  by Nicholas Terpstra

  Nearly half of the children who lived in the cities of the late Italian Renaissance were under fifteen years of age. Grinding poverty, unstable families, and the death of a parent could make caring for these young children a burden. Many were abandoned, others orphaned. At a time when political rulers fashioned themselves as the "fathers" of society, these cast-off children presented a very immediate challenge and... (more)
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  Lavinia Fontana: A Painter and Her Patrons in Sixteenth-century Bologna

  by Caroline Murphy

  Bolognese painter Lavinia Fontana was the most significant and prolific woman artist of Renaissance Europe. Her large and renowned body of work encompasses several genres, including altarpieces, history paintings, and portraits. This extensively illustrated book is the first comprehensive study of Fontana in the English language. Caroline P. Murphy assesses the relation of Fontana’s native city Bologna to the... (more)