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Children’s Bartali’s Bicycle: The True Story of Gino Bartali, Italy’s Secret Hero Megan Hoyt, Iacopo Bruno (Illustrator)
Fiction Rebecca of Salerno: A Novel of Rogue Crusaders, a Jewish Female Physician, and a Murder Esther Erman
Nonfiction Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation Federica Francesconi
Nonfiction The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance Catherine Fletcher
Essay Renaissance Revealed: The Oppression of Jews in Italy in the 1500s Catherine Fletcher September 14, 2020