Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=7431&Ne=7431&N=7431+4294937575 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1649525 Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci team up to expose a serial killer when Pope Alexander dispatches a Vatican courtesan to discern the truth about his beloved illegitimate sons murder. Their investigation reveals the secret history behind the controversial political work, The Prince. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1375424 After seeing a young womans tattoo with images from an unknown painting of rare and significant value, Fred knows the painting must be found. But anyone who must have seen the painting denies that it exists. Since Freds employer, the collector Clayton Reed, is out of the country, Fred is left to his own devices and is free to follow the paintings trail, despite distractions presented by the intriguing librarian, Molly Riley. When Fred encounters the first bump in the road: a suspiciously convenient hit-and-run that kills a potential informant, he wonders if a painting can be worth a murder. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1041578 While working on the invention of a flying machine for the Duke of Milan, Leonardo da Vinci investigates the murder of a brilliant apprentice while his own apprentice, secretly a woman, worries that she will be the next victim. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=727189 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=761116 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=765955 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=612028 Isabella dEste, daughter of the Duke of Ferrara, born into privilege and the political and artistic turbulence of Renaissance Italy, is a stunning black-eyed blonde and a precocious lover and collector of art. Worldly and ambitious, she has never envied her less attractive sister, the spirited but naive Beatrice, until, by a quirk of fate, Beatrice is betrothed to the future Duke of Milan. Although he is more than twice their age, openly lives with his mistress, and is reputedly trying to eliminate the current duke by nefarious means, Ludovico Sforza is Isabellas match in intellect and passion for all things of beauty. Only he would allow her to fulfill her destiny: to reign over one of the worlds most powerful and enlightened realms and be immortalized in oil by the genius Leonardo da Vinci. Though Isabella weds the Marquis of Mantua, a man she has loved since childhood, Beatrices fortunes rise effortlessly through her marriage to Ludovico. The two sisters compete for supremacy in the illustrious courts of Europe, and Isabella vows that she will not rest until she wrestles back her true fate and plays temptress to the sensuous Ludovico and muse to the great Leonardo. But when Ludovicos grand plan to control Europe begins to crumble, immortality through art becomes a luxury, and the two sisters must choose between familial loyalty and survival in the treacherous political climate. Leonardos Swans is an evocation of the artist during his years in the glittering court of Milan, re-creating the thrilling moments when he conceived The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. It portrays a genius ahead of his time who can rarely escape the demands of his noble patrons long enough to express his own artistic vision.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=720760 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=591464 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1294100 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=478185 The secret Catholic organization known as Opus Dei has struck. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been found dead inside the museum, surrounded by eldritch ciphers in invisible ink. It is up to Harvard semiotician Robert Langdon and his French cryptologist partner Sophie Neveu to decode the ciphers, and get to the bottom of an ever-widening mystery. They discover that the late curator was the gatekeeper of the Priory of Sion, a secret society whose members included Leonardo da Vinci, and that he sacrificed his life to protect a vastly important ancient religious relic from Opus Dei. If Langdon and Neveu do not decipher the clues in time, Opus Dei will get its hands on the relic, and havoc will be wrought. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=478186 The secret Catholic organization known as Opus Dei has struck. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been found dead inside the museum, surrounded by eldritch ciphers in invisible ink. It is up to Harvard semiotician Robert Langdon and his French cryptologist partner Sophie Neveu to decode the ciphers, and get to the bottom of an ever-widening mystery. They discover that the late curator was the gatekeeper of the Priory of Sion, a secret society whose members included Leonardo da Vinci, and that he sacrificed his life to protect a vastly important ancient religious relic from Opus Dei. If Langdon and Neveu do not deciper the clues in time, Opus Dei will get its hands on the relic, and havoc will be wrought. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1294099 While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, a baffling cipher found near the body. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci - clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. The stakes are raised when Langdon uncovers a startling link. The late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion - an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. Langdon suspects they are on the hunt for a breathtaking historical secret, one that has proven through the centuries to be as enlightening as it is dangerous. In a frantic race through Paris, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu find themselves matching wits with a faceless powerbroker who appears to anticipate their every move. Unless they can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle, the Priorys secret - and an explosive ancient truth - will be lost forever.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=481884 Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=387228 Hurtling across the Atlantic, a plane goes down - taking with it a page from the journals of Leonardo da Vinci. In Georgetown, the home of museum curator Rollo Barnett burns to the ground. Only his young son, Reb, escapes alive. Are the tragedies connected? Are they merely accidents or acts of murder? Twenty years later, Hollywood stuntman Reb Barnett, an eduated, art-loving, high-risk-addicted daredevil on the run from his nightmares, refuses to believe so. Until a phone call rips him from his world of cinematic illusion, and sends him to Italy on a desperate quest where danger and violence are chillingly real. Reb seeks da Vincis Circles of Truth, a coded fifteenth-century map that reveals the hiding place of the Medici Dagger, a weapon made of an alloy so light and indestructible it is worth a fortune to todays arms manufacturers. To Reb, it is worth even more - it is his only link to finding the truth about his fathers death, and to laying bare the dark demons of his own heart. But finding the Circles of Truth is only the first step. Breaking their complex code means matching wits with Leonardo himself. And staying alive means keeping one jump ahead of a shadowy adversary: the killer who haunts Robs dreams.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=93366 A group of Anglo-American forgers produce a sketch of the Mona Lisa, supposedly by Leonardo da Vinci and nearly get away with selling it. The man who busts the plot is John Osby, a British police officer on the art and antiquities squad.