Our guest today is Robert Barbera, author of How to Jump-Start Your Way to Real Estate Wealth, a how-to guide for those ready to take the step into owning properties for rent as their primary or secondary source of income.



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Our guest today is Kingsley Day, the author of Music's Guiding Hand: A Novel Inspired by the Life of Guido d'Arezzo, a Benedictine monk who is regarded as the inventor, or by some, the developer, of the modern staff notation in music—though his birthdate is somewhere around 990CE and his birthplace, possibly Tuscany, possibly Ferrara—are all up for question. So, it will be great to learn what Kingsley learned from his own research.



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Our guest today is Eric Martin, the author of The Witch of Agnesi: A Novel Based on the Life of Maria Agnesi, the Italian mathematician from the 1700s who became the first woman to write a mathematics handbook and the first appointed to be a mathematics professor at a university, the University of Bologna.



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Our guest today is Nicole Gregory, the author of Belle Luna de Miele: Love and Adventure in Italy Where All the Senses are Awakened (released as The Seven Senses of Italy). It's a part love story and a part travelogue, The Seven Senses of Italy follows two American newlyweds as they breathe in the sights, sounds, aromas, tastes, and textures of Italy. 



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Dr. Rosanne Welch with Nicole Gregory












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Our guest today is Robert Barbera, author of Retire and Refire: Financial Strategies for People of All Ages to Navigate Their Golden Years with Ease, which does just what the title says it does by following five couples on a riverboat cruise full of practical examples of financial planning.



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Our guest today is W.A.W. Parker, the author of The Judicious Use of Intangibles: A Novel Based on the Life of Pietro Belluschi, an Italian architect and leader of the modern movement in architecture. He worked largely in the US in response to the rise of Benito Mussolini. Belluschi designed over a thousand buildings in a career that culminated in his becoming the dean of architecture at MIT, better known as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.



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Our guest today is Kate Fuglei, author of The Dream of Life: A Novel Based on the Life of Federico Fellini, the famed Italian screenwriter and director of such cinematic classics as La Dolce Vita, La Strada and Amarcord. He began his screenwriting career when Roberto Rossellini invited him to contribute to the Italian neo-realism classic Rome, Open City.





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Our guest today is Nicole Gregory, the author of Desert Missionary: A Novel Based on the Life of Father Eusebio Kino. This Jesuit missionary born in 1645 in what is now northern Italy, became a geographer, a cartographer and an astronomer. In the last quarter of his life he explored Mexico and the southwestern U.S. where he proved that Baja, California, is a peninsula and not an island.







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Dr. Rosanne Welch with Nicole Gregory












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Our guest today is Kate Fuglei, author of The Embrace of Hope: A Novel Based on the Life of Frank Capra, the famed director of such classics as It's a Wonderful Life.





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Our 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.





















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Our 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.





















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Dr. Rosanne Welch with Margaret O'Reilly






















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Our 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.













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Dr. Peg Lamphier and Dr. Rosanne Welch








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Our guest today is Robert Barbera, the author of Building Wealth 101, where he offers up his advice about how to make your own wealth.













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Today 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.







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Our 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.







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Our 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.







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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.







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Dr. Peg A. Lamphier and Dr. Rosanne Welch












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Our 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.







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Peter David Myers












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Our guest today is Jonathan Brown, author of A Boxing Trainer's Journey: A Novel Based on the Life of Angelo Dundee. This Italian-American from South Philly trained and served as cornerman to fifteen world boxing champions including Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard. He also trained Russell Crowe for his performance as a boxer in Cinderella Man.







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Laila Ali with Jonathan Brown









Photos from Jonathan's book signing in Manhattan Beach




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Our guest today is Jule Selbo, author of Breaking Barriers: A Novel Based on the Life of Laura Bassi, the first woman in the world to be appointed a university chair in a scientific field, after being the first woman to earn a professorship in physics at any university. In those positions she brought Newtonian mechanics to the Italians.







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Jule Selbo












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