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- The Embrace of Hope: A Novel Based on the Life of Frank Capra with author, Kate FugleiCrossing the Atlantic Ocean was going to be the biggest adventure of Frank Capra’s life, but the five-year-old Sicilian boy’s dreams were soon hobbled by the cramped steamship’s unsanitary conditions. Feverish and weak, Frank suffered the seemingly endless nightmare through rolling seas torn from his family and frightened in the isolated sick bay.0 min
- Jonathan Brown on Character is What Counts about football coach Vince LombardiOur 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 also known for his pithy positive phrases that appear on posters and bumper stickers all over. You could say he was the go-to confidence builder before the invention of Ted Lasso.Listen Now or Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | RSSJonathan BrownLEARN MORE24 min
- Margaret O’Reilly on Sinner, Servant, Saint about St. Francis of AssisiOur 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 us today.Listen Now or Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | RSSDr. Rosanne Welch with Margaret O'ReillyLEARN MORE26 min
- Dr. Peg A. Lamphier on What a Woman Can Do about Renaissance painter Artemisia GentileschiOur 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 the 17th century, male or female.Listen Now or Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | RSSDr. Peg Lamphier and Dr. Rosanne WelchLEARN MORE31 min
- Robert Barbera on Building Wealth 101 about managing personal financesOur 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 | RSSRobert BarberaLEARN MORE33 min
- Joe Cline on Building Heaven’s Ceiling about Renaissance architect Filippo BrunelleschiToday 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 Florence, Italy.Listen Now or Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | RSSJoe ClineLEARN MORE27 min
- Patric Verrone on Ride Into the Sun about Roman general Scipio AfricanusOur 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 is part of modern-day Spain.Listen Now or Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | RSSPatric VerroneLEARN MORE22 min
- Pamela Winfrey on The Architect Who Changed Our World about Renaissance architect Andrea PalladioOur 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 Architecture, which even influenced Thomas Jefferson when he designed his home in Monticello.Listen Now or Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | RSSPamela WinfreyLEARN MORE23 min
- Dr. 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 by his side and American journalist Margaret Fuller who had been sent to Rome to cover the conflict.Listen Now or Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | RSSDr. Peg A. Lamphier and Dr. Rosanne WelchLEARN MORE24 min
- Peter David Myers on Dark Labyrinth about astronomer Galileo GalileiOur guest today is Peter Myers, author of Dark Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Life of Galileo Galilei, the Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer, who is perhaps best known for championing the radical idea that the sun—not the earth—was the center of the universe, an idea that put him at odds with the Catholic Church for the rest of his life.Listen Now or Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | RSSPeter David MyersLEARN MORE29 min
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The Mentoris Podcasts: Meet the authors of the Mentoris Project book series featuring Italians and Italian Americans who mentored Western Civilization. Through these interviews, you\’ll learn about a…
variety of famous artists, adventurers, explorers, educators, and philosophers. From Aquinas to Volta, Brunelleschi to Vespucci, Cicero to Verdi, their stories will come alive to you through these engaging conversations. Join us…