Vendome Press: 5 books

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Tuscan Countess

The Life and Extraordinary Times of Matilda of Canossa

by Michele K. Spike
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

This is a fast-paced and colorful exploration of the life of Matilda of Canossa (c. 1046–1115), the woman who loved a pope and was loved by him, successfully defied the Holy Roman Emperor, and changed the map of Europe. A new kind of history, this biography also carries the flavor of present-day...
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Young Michelangelo

The Path to the Sistine: A Biography

by John T. Spike
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

Truly in a class of its own, Young Michelangelo is the most definitive and eye-opening study of the artist’s early life to come along in a generation. In this compelling account, renowned art historian John Spike paints a vivid portrait of one of the world’s greatest artists and the places and...
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Theodora

Empress of Byzantium

by Paolo Cesaretti
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

This book is a gripping, long-overdue biography of one of the most intriguing and powerful female figures of Western history: Theodora of Byzantium. Ruthlessly criticized and reviled by her contemporaries, Theodora, the beautiful wife of Emperor Justinian, began her life as the daughter of a bear-keeper...
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by Henri-Paul Pellaprat , Jeremiah Tower
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

Henri-Paul Pellaprat and Jeremiah Tower, master chefs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, have created a reference cookbook that will shape great chefs and great cooking in the twenty-first century. The English language edition of Pellaprat's landmark cookbook, L'Art Culinaire Moderne, when...
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Sister Parish

The Life of the Legendary American Interior Designer

by Apple Parish Bartlett, Susan Bartlett Crater
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012

Sister -- as she was always called by family and friends -- was born Dorothy May Kinnicutt into a patrician New York family in 1910 and spent her privileged early life at the right schools, yacht clubs, and coming-out parties. Compelled to work during the lean years of the Depression, Sister combined...
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