MICHELANGELO, from David to the Sistine Chapel: a life in marble

THE SPANISH FLU: The virus that killed more than the Great War

GIUSEPPE MAZZINI: la Giovine Italia e la Repubblica Romana

MOTHER TERESA: From Skopje to Calcutta, the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner

ANASTASIA ROMANOV: Yekaterinburg 1918 and the DNA evidence

PYTHAGORAS: The school in Crotone where women also studied

THE WITCHES OF BENEVENTO: The Sacred Walnut Tree and the Janare of Sannio

GIOACCHINO ROSSINI: The Barber of Seville and the long silence

GUSTAV KLIMT: The Vienna Secession and the Portrait of Adele

THE CAPUCHIN CATACOMBS: Eight Thousand Bodies Beneath Palermo

MARTIN LUTHER: The 95 Theses and the Diet of Worms of 1521

BENVENUTO CELLINI: The Goldsmith's Workshop and the Fire of Florence

VLADIMIR LENIN: From the sealed train to the October Revolution

FRENCH REVOLUTION: From the Storming of the Bastille to the Reign of Terror

The story of LEONARDO DA VINCI: history's most universal man

BERMUDA TRIANGLE: Flight 19 and the events of 1945

AKHENATON: The Pharaoh of Amarna and the cult of the sun disk

KAROL WOJTYŁA: From the stone quarry to the throne of Peter

FRANCESCO GUCCINI, the last storyteller

FEDERICO FELLINI: La Dolce Vita, 8½ and five Oscars

IVAN THE TERRIBLE: The First Tsar and the Conquest of Kazan

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN: From Warsaw to Paris, the Nocturnes and Salons

THE TEMPLARS' TREASURE: They swore never to reveal it. And they died faithful to the secret.

POMPEII: The Last Day of the City Beneath Vesuvius

ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE: Queen of France and England

PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA: The 900 Theses and the Papal Condemnation

THE ILIAD: The Judgment of Paris and the Wrath of Achilles (Part 1)

DIEGO MARADONA: From Villa Fiorito to Napoli and the 1986 World Cup

RICHARD THE LIONHEART: The Third Crusade and Imprisonment

NICCOLÒ PAGANINI: The Violinist Who Rewrote Technique

ANNA MAGNANI: From Rome, Open City to the 1956 Oscar

THE ARAGONESES OF NAPLES: The most brilliant court in Italy

PEPPINO DI CAPRI: The Neapolitan Twist and Sixty Years on Stage

FRANCESCO PETRARCA: Laura, the Canzoniere, and Humanism

NEFERTITI: The Queen of Amarna and the Recovered Bust

MARIA CALLAS: The voice that changed twentieth-century opera

FIBONACCI: The Liber Abaci and Arabic Numerals in Europe

ULISSE: l'Odissea di Omero, da Troia al ritorno a Itaca

GIOVANNI DALLE BANDE NERE: The Last Mercenary Captain

ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA: The Argentine Doctor of the Sierra Maestra

HOUSE OF LANCASTER: Three English Kings and the Wars of the Roses

MATILDE DI CANOSSA: The countess who made an emperor kneel in the snow

The Rothschilds: From a Frankfurt Alley to the Courts of Europe

VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT: The undeciphered 15th-century code

GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO: The Decameron and the 1348 Plague

GIACOMO PUCCINI: From organist in Lucca to La Bohème in 1896

THE ESTE: The Ferrara Court Between Ariosto and Tasso

MICHAEL JACKSON: da Gary all'album più venduto di sempre

PAMPHILJ: From Gubbio to Piazza Navona, Innocent X in 1644

ITALO CALVINO: From The Path to the Spiders' Nests to Invisible Cities

MARILYN MONROE: From Norma Jeane to the Hollywood Spotlight

IL NAUFRAGIO DEL TITANIC: due ore e quaranta nell'Atlantico

ISABELLA D'ESTE: The Marchioness Who Ruled Mantua from 1490

CHARLES DARWIN: From the Voyage of the Beagle to The Origin of Species

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER: The Philosopher Who Challenged Hegel in Berlin

ENZO FERRARI: From Modena to the world's most famous racing team

SANDRO PERTINI: Partisan and President from 1978 to 1985

LUCIO BATTISTI: The songs with Mogol and the final silence

COCO CHANEL: dall'orfanotrofio di Aubazine alla moda di Parigi

VITTORIO EMANUELE II: First King of Italy from 1861 to 1878