An exciting journey in Italy to discover the masterpieces of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and many other protagonists who, together with them, have made those years unsurpassable. The Italian Renaissance art preserved in Italy, in its churches and its museums, even in those places sometimes less celebrated and known but of equal dignity and importance for the task and the seriousness with which they carry out their business, and for the richness of the magnificent heritage they are called to preserve. --From jacket.