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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
by Frances Mayes  Publisher Comments Frances Mayes entered a wondrous new world when she began restoring an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. There were unexpected treasures at every turn: faded frescos beneath the whitewash in her dining room, a vineyard under wildly...
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The City of Falling Angels
by John Berendt 
Powells.com Staff Pick Once again John Berendt proves he is a powerful magnet for eccentrics. With clever proficiency, Berendt depicts for readers a host of quirky characters, providing an exclusive glimpse into the Venice you won't see as a tourist. Gossipy yet wholly...
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Penguin Classics)
by Jacob Burckhardt Synopsis This 19th-century survey of the Renaissance propounds the view that it was at this time that man became aware of himself as a spiritual individual. This concept of the Renaissance has been much discussed, as has Burckhardt's cultural pessimism....
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Midnight in Sicily
by Peter Robb
Publisher Comments In late 1995 Giulio Andreotti, seven-time prime minister of Italy and once called "the finest political mind in Europe," went on trial both for murder and for his association with the Sicilian Mafia. With hundreds of witnesses still to be called, there...
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That Fine Italian Hand
by Paul Hofmann Publisher Comments No other people over so long a history have shown a greater knack for survival than the Italians. In this wryly affectionate book, Hofmann reveals his adopted countrymen in all their glorious paradoxes, capturing their national essence as no other book...
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Italy: Antique and Modern Genius (Exploring Countries of the WOR)
by Fabio Bourbon Publisher Comments Hundreds of full-color photographs bring to life the spectacular ruins of Roman civilization, the sumptuous art of Renaissance palaces, and the rugged Alpine ranges of Italy. Young armchair travelers will glide through the canals of Venice, feel the...
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Lucrezia Borgia
by Maria Bellonci Publisher Comments Although Lucrezia Borgia was a daughter of Pope Alexander VI and chiefly remembered as a raven-haired poisoner, Bellonci depicts a passionate woman moving uncertainly through the papal court and the intrigues, ambitions, and political chicanery that...
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The Stone Boudoir: Travels through the Hidden Village of Sicily
by Theresa Maggio Publisher Comments In this sparkling book, Theresa Maggio takes us on a journey in search of Sicily's most remote and least explored mountain towns. Using her grandparent's ancestral village of Santa Margherita Belice as her base camp, she pores over old maps to plot her...
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The Body of Il Duce: Mussolini's Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy
by Sergio Luzzatto Publisher Comments A brilliant young historian follows the odyssey of Mussolini's body in an original exploration of the history and legacy of Italian Fascism Bullet-ridden, spat on, butchered bloody: this was the fate of Il Duce, strung up beside his dead mistress in a...
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The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society
by Benjamin Kohl Publisher Comments The gradual secularization of European society and culture is often said to characterize the development of the modern world, and the early Italian humanists played a pioneering role in this process. Here Benjamin G. Kohl and Ronald G. Witt, with...
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Giovanni Agnelli Foundation Series in Italian History: Ideological Profile of Twentieth-Century Italy
by Norberto Bobbio Publisher Comments Anyone interested in the entire sweep of political thought over the last hundred years will find in Norberto Bobbio's Ideological Profile of Twentieth-Century Italy a masterful, thought-provoking guide. Home to the largest communist party in a democratic...
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A House in Sicily
by Daphne Phelps Publisher Comments This is the captivating memoir of a resourceful woman who started life anew in the "most beautiful house in Sicily." For fifty years, at Casa Cuseni in the small Sicilian town of Taormina, Daphne Phelps has extended her English charm and warm hospitality...
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Views of Rome
by Steven Brooke Publisher Comments An ideal companion to traditional tour guides with 90 illus....
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Renaissance Florence
by Gene Brucker Publisher Comments In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the city of Florence experienced the most creative period in her entire history. This book is an in-depth analysis of that dynamic community, focusing primarily on the years 1380-1450 in an examination of the...
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The Italian Renaissance in Its Historical Background
by Denys Hay Publisher Comments This book provides a clear picture of what the Renaissance was, what it meant and how it spread. His approach is historical, and he shows the Renaissance as a growing and changing series of attitudes and ideas, rooted firmly in the general history of the...
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Italy: A Difficult Democracy: A Survey of Italian Politics
by Frederic Spotts Publisher Comments This book provides the best up-to-date survey of the Italian political scene during the forty years since World War II. It describes the inner dynamics of the political parties, the day-to-day functioning of the governing institutions, and the...
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Ruskin's Rose: A Venetian Love Story
by Ann Field Publisher Comments Venice can be a dangerous place for a man's emotions--particularly at Christmas, particularly if he's the grief-stricken art historian John Ruskin. In 1876, a year after the death of his clandestine love, Rose La Touche, Ruskin arrived in the city of...
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For Solo Violin: A Memoir
by Aldo Zargani Publisher Comments In an extraordinary literary debut, Aldo Zargani reconstructs the lost world of his Jewish childhood during the perilous years 1938-45 when he and his family fled from Fascists and Nazis in northern Italy. His haunting memoir acquires a cinematic...
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Mussolini's Italy (Teach Yourself)
by David Evans Publisher Comments Teach Yourself History Each title in the history category of Teach Yourself makes complex events accessible when you're seeking an alternative to dry, academic texts. Incorporating gripping personal stories, our Teach Yourself History Books transform...
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Paradise of Cities Venice in the 19TH C
by Julius Norwich
Publisher Comments The greatest living chronicler of Venetian history brings to life the city’s magical charm in a beautifully illustrated and captivating book. John Julius Norwich, the author of the acclaimed A History of Venice, traces the transformation of Venice...
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