R A Scotti: 3 books
by R.A. Scotti
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs...
Sudden Sea
The Great Hurricane of 1938
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
The massive destruction wreaked by the Hurricane of 1938 dwarfed that of the Chicago Fire, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Mississippi floods of 1927, making the storm the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Now, R.A. Scotti tells the story.
Basilica
The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
In this dramatic journey through religious and artistic history, R. A. Scotti traces the defining event of a glorious epoch: the building of St. Peter?s Basilica. Begun by the ferociously ambitious Pope Julius II in 1506, the endeavor would span two tumultuous centuries, challenge the greatest Renaissance...