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| Dante's Inferno IDante, one of the world’s finest and most influential poets of western literature, was born in Florence, Italy, in 1265. He got caught up in the economic and political upheavals of his day.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 English | History-Social Science |
| Leaning Tower of PisaOne of the finest examples of medieval Italian Romanesque architecture is year by year, slowly, relentlessly inclining to the south. Despite all efforts to correct this, it remains one of the continent’s premier attractions, the Leaning Tower of Pisa.Grades 6-8 History-Social Science |
| Dante's Inferno IIAfter Dante was banished from Florence in 1302, he wrote his great masterpiece "The Divine Comedy." By writing it in Italian, the language of the people, he helped drag readers out of their slavish devotion to Latin.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 English | History-Social Science |
| Baroque Culture ISome of the west’s greatest artists emerged from the Baroque era--Caravaggio, Vermeer, Rubens and Bernini, and the composers, Vivaldi, Pachelbel, Bach and Handel.Grades 3-5 | 6-8 History-Social Science |
| Lucrezia Borgia ILucrezia Borgia was either one of the most immoral women in history or she was a pawn in the never-ending game of late Italian Renaissance family intrigue. Or maybe she was both.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Lucrezia Borgia IIAt the pinnacle of the so-called Renaissance papacy and symbolic of its corruption was the clan Borgia. Lucrezia Borgia, the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI, was either a victim of the family's venality or a major perp or maybe even both.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
