Laura Morelli Books in Order

Laura Morelli explores Italy’s regional craft traditions, from glass and ceramics to leatherwork and jewelry. The guide helps travelers understand how objects are made, assess quality and find workshops beyond the usual souvenir stops.

Laura Morelli introduces travelers to the American Southwest’s artisanal traditions and the people who sustain them. Combining cultural background with practical guidance on quality and value, the book helps readers make more informed purchases.

Organized by region, this guide explores France’s artisanal traditions, from porcelain and perfume to textiles and other handmade objects. Laura Morelli connects their cultural histories with practical advice for finding workshops and judging potential purchases.

Venetian boatbuilder Luca expects to inherit his father’s workshop and follow a carefully arranged future. After tragedy strikes the boatyard, restoring an antique gondola draws him toward a different life and a complicated reckoning with family expectations.

Laura Morelli explains Venice’s traditional crafts, including Murano glass, carnival masks, lace and gondolas. The guide helps visitors understand their histories and production, distinguish authentic work and choose meaningful souvenirs with greater confidence.

While weaving a tapestry for a duke in fourteenth-century Bruges, a young woman falls in love with a foreign silk dyer's son. Their growing attachment faces a city increasingly threatened by the Black Death.

After plague kills his parents, ten-year-old Tonino becomes an apprentice in his uncle’s Venetian goldsmith workshop. When the disease reaches his new home, he faces a difficult choice about how to survive.

Apprentice painter Maria longs to continue her father’s gilding trade, but servants discover a secret that puts her future at risk. Their escalating blackmail and the arrival of plague force increasingly desperate choices in Renaissance Venice.

Struggling Florentine painter Jacopo Torni hopes collaboration with his childhood friend Michelangelo will rescue his career and finances. As the monumental David takes shape, Jacopo confronts ambition, artistic rivalry and life in another man’s shadow.

A portrait by Leonardo da Vinci links a young Renaissance mistress with a conservator working during the Second World War. Across five centuries, their struggles for security and independence converge around a painting threatened by Nazi appropriation.

In Renaissance Florence, a servant becomes entangled in secrets surrounding the Mona Lisa. Centuries later, a Louvre archivist helps hide the painting from advancing Nazis, discovering that her own family may hold a key to its survival.

A German photographer and an American stenographer are drawn into the struggle over Florence’s looted art during the Second World War. As destruction threatens priceless masterpieces, their competing missions test what each is willing to sacrifice.

Sent to relatives in Tuscany during the Second World War, twelve-year-old Stella discovers that their villa shelters hundreds of artworks from the Uffizi. An unexpected friendship develops as she confronts danger and the responsibilities of protecting those treasures.