The son of the former mafia boss, who everyone thought was dead…has returned, with the sole purpose of recovering what was deceitfully taken from his family. Ruthless, lethal, and charming as hell. Dante is ready to take what belongs to him after 5 years of exile. Determined to get his revenge against his enemies whom he once called family, he will unite with his loyal ones, encountering constant obstacles along the way that will have to be overcome with lead and blood. This is the beginning of a tireless fight for absolute dominion and for the heart of a forbidden woman, Elizabeth. Will he be able to get both? The new face of the mafia has deep blue eyes, and an insatiable thirst for justice. This Standalone Dark Mafia Romance is guaranteed to leave your kindle steaming. All books from the series are connected with each other but can be read in any order.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite extraordinaire, is unique as Victorian proto-expressionistic painter-poet, who relentlessly sought representation of a tormented personified-self through the communicative relationship between image and word. In this interdisciplinary study is considered the narrative interaction that unifies ideas and forms into a self-expressive dialectical that informs of autonomous individualism and gender politics as a social problematic. Rossetti, known universally as a charismatic and vibrantly passionate man, is tangibly revealed in the most tenderly transparent narratives to be a haunted and socially subjugated man who searched for self-definition as a man and as an artist. By an intricate analysis of key textual and visual narratives Yildiz Kilic provides an insightful and wholly original interpretation of Rossetti as Victorian victim and innovator.

The first book to be dedicated to the topic, Patronage and Italian Renaissance Sculpture reappraises the creative and intellectual roles of sculptor and patron. The volume surveys artistic production from the Trecento to the Cinquecento in Rome, Pisa, Florence, Bologna, and Venice. Using a broad range of approaches, the essayists question the traditional concept of authorship in Italian Renaissance sculpture, setting each work of art firmly into a complex socio-historical context. Emphasizing the role of the patron, the collection re-assesses the artistic production of such luminaries as Michelangelo, Donatello, and Giambologna, as well as lesser-known sculptors. Contributors shed new light on the collaborations that shaped Renaissance sculpture and its reception.