Our guest today is Nicole Gregory, the author of Desert Missionary: A Novel Based on the Life of Father Eusebio Kino. This Jesuit missionary born in 1645 in what is now northern Italy, became a geographer, a cartographer and an astronomer. In the last quarter of his life he explored […]
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Kate Fuglei on director Frank Capra
Our guest today is Kate Fuglei, author of The Embrace of Hope: A Novel Based on the Life of Frank Capra, the famed director of such classics as It’s a Wonderful Life. Listen Now or Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | RSS
ContinueJonathan Brown on Character is What Counts about football coach Vince Lombardi
Our guest today is Jonathan Brown, author of Character is What Counts: A Novel Based on the Life of Vince Lombardi. Famous for his career as a coach, for winning two Super Bowls and for never having had a losing season as a head coach in the NFL, Lombardi is […]
ContinueMargaret O’Reilly on Sinner, Servant, Saint about St. Francis of Assisi
Our guest today is Margaret O’Reilly, the author of Sinner, Servant, Saint: A Novel Based on the Life of St. Francis of Assisi. The patron saint of Italy, he is best known as the patron saint of animals and the natural environment which makes his life ever so relevant to […]
ContinueDr. Peg A. Lamphier on What a Woman Can Do about Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi
Our guest today is Peg Lamphier, the author of What a Woman Can Do: A Novel Based on the Life of Artemisia Gentileschi, an Italian baroque painter who began painting professionally at the age of 15 and who overcame personal tragedies to become one of the most accomplished artists of […]
ContinueRobert Barbera on Building Wealth 101 about managing personal finances
Our guest today is Robert Barbera, the author of Building Wealth 101, where he offers up his advice about how to make your own wealth. Listen Now or Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | RSS
ContinueJoe Cline on Building Heaven’s Ceiling about Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi
Today our guest is Joe Cline, author of Building Heaven’s Ceiling: A Novel Based on the Life of Filippo Brunelleschi, the Italian designer, engineer, and mathematician known as the founding father of Renaissance architecture and the creator of the dome of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Flower in […]
ContinuePatric Verrone on Ride Into the Sun about Roman general Scipio Africanus
Our guest today is Patric Verrone, author of Ride Into the Sun: A Novel Based on the Life of Scipio Africanus, the Roman general often regarded as one of the greatest military strategists of all time. Having defeated Hannibal during the Second Punic War Scipio also conquered Carthaginian Iberia which […]
ContinuePamela Winfrey on The Architect Who Changed Our World about Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio
Our guest today is Pamela Winfrey, the author of The Architect Who Changed Our World: A Novel Based on the Life of Andrea Palladio. One of the most influential individuals in the history of architecture, he designed churches and palaces and he wrote The Architectural Treatise: The Four Books of […]
ContinueDr. Rosanne Welch on A Man of Action Saving Liberty about Italian general and unifier Giuseppe Garibaldi (interview by Dr. Peg A. Lamphier)
Our guest today is Dr. Rosanne Welch, the author of A Man of Action Saving Liberty: A Novel Based on the Life of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Garibaldi is the man credited with uniting Italy into one country in 1860. In the book, we also meet his Brazilian wife, Anita, who fought […]
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