The Mentoris Project Podcasts

The Mentoris Project Podcasts
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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…

  1. 03/06/2023

    Robert Barbera on How to Jump-Start Your Way to Real Estate Wealth

    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. Listen Now or Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | RSS LEARN MORE

    17 min

  2. 03/03/2023

    Kingsley Day on Benedictine Monk Guido d’Arezzo

    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. Listen Now or Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | RSS LEARN MORE

    29 min

  3. 03/03/2023

    Eric Martin on mathematician Maria Agnesi

    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. Listen Now or Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | RSS LEARN MORE

    19 min

  4. 12/20/2022

    Nicole Gregory on The Seven Senses of Italy

    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.  Listen Now or Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | RSS Dr. Rosanne Welch with Nicole Gregory LEARN MORE

    17 min

  5. 09/30/2022

    Robert Barbera on How to Plan for Retirement at Any Age

    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. Listen Now or Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | RSS Robert Barbera LEARN MORE

    28 min

  6. 09/08/2022

    W.A.W. Parker on architect Pietro Belluschi

    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. Listen Now or Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | RSS W.A.W. Parker LEARN MORE

    19 min

  7. 08/26/2022

    Kate Fuglei on director Federico Fellini

    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. Listen Now or Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | RSS Kate Fuglei LEARN MORE

    29 min

  8. 03/23/2022

    Nicole Gregory on Jesuit missionary Father Eusebio Kino

    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. Listen Now or Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | RSS Dr. Rosanne Welch with Nicole Gregory LEARN MORE

    19 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…

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  • Creator
    The Mentoris Project Podcasts
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2023
  • Episodes
    40
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2002 The Mentoris Project
  • Show Website
    The Mentoris Project Podcasts