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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy by Sarah Bradford Publisher Comments The very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissanceincest, political assassination, papal sexual abuse, poisonous intrigue, unscrupulous power grabs. Yet, as bestselling biographer Sarah Bradford... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici by Miles J Unger Publisher Comments Magnifico is a vividly colorful portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici, the uncrowned ruler of Florence during its golden age. A true "Renaissance man," Lorenzo dazzled contemporaries with his prodigious talents and magnetic personality. Known to history as Il... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $11.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Scourge & Fire Savonarola & Renaiss by Lauro Martines Publisher Comments A riveting new book about Savonarola, a lowly friar of Renaissance Florence, but also a charismatic preacher and the talk of all Italy in the 1490s when he called for the renewal of a corrupt Church and the purging of vile governments. From the Hardcover... (read more) Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Tuscan Childhood by Kinta Beevor Publisher Comments The sparkling memoir of an idyllic, bohemian childhood in an enchanted Tuscan castle between the wars. When Kinta Beeevor was five, her father, the painter Aubrey Waterfield, bought the sixteenth-century Fortezza della Brunella in the Tuscan village... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Garibaldi's Defence of the Roman Republic: 1848-9 by George M Trevelyan Publisher Comments Part one of a classic trilogy, written by one of England's greatest historians, that traces the life of Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi--a man once described as "the only wholly admirable figure in history." Follow Garibaldi's life from his early... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Venice Carnival by Paolo Alei Synopsis The Venice Carnival is recognized worldwide as a symbol of all that is lavish and original in costume and design. This book offers an insight into this vibrant Italian carnival and is complemented by historical information and contemporary photography.... (read more) Your price: $12.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Last Days of Mussolini by Ray Moseley Publisher Comments In the late winter of 1945, Benito Mussolini found himself acutely aware that his life had nearly run its course. From the moment he had been overthrown in July 1943, arrested, then rescued by the Germans and forced by Hitler to take up the reins of... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $16.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Tuscany Flying High (Flying High) by Antonio Attini Publisher Comments A welcome addition to White Star's renowned aerial presentation series, this handsome, compact volume takes readers on a spectacular journey over one of Italy's most beloved regions. These images reveal facets of Tuscany that are off-the-beaten track... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Italian Days by Barbara Gr Harrison Publisher Comments "Italian Days" is one of the richest and most absorbing travel books written--a journey that traverses the Italian peninsula and immerses readers in a culture which provides the reader with a definition of the good life. "Harrison's wonderful journal... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy by Norman Lewis Publisher Comments As a young intelligence officer stationed in Naples following its liberation from Nazi forces, Norman Lewis recorded the lives of a proud and vibrant people forced to survive on prostitution, thievery, and a desperate belief in miracles and cures. The... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro by Joe Mcginniss Publisher Comments Master storyteller Joe McGinniss travels to Italy to cover the unlikely success of a ragtag minor league soccer team -- and delivers a brilliant and utterly unforgettable story of life in an off-the-beaten-track Italian village.<P>When Joe... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic by Alexander Stille Publisher Comments In 1992 Italy was convulsed by two brazen Mafia assassinations of high-ranking officials. The latest "excellent cadavers" were Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the Sicilian magistrates who had been the Cosa Nostra's most implacable enemies. Yet in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Venetian Affair: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century by Andrea Di Robilant Publisher Comments In the waning days of Venice’s glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the city’s oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Italy (Small Panorama) by Michael Heatley Publisher Comments This series has done so well that we have produced a smaller, more portable size for those who wish to have a more manageable gift book. These are also available in the original oversized coffee table format of 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 with 256 pages. Beautifully... (read more) Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Fatal Silence the Pope the Resistance & by Robert Katz Synopsis The dramatic story of the brutal occupation of Rome by the Germans after the fall of Mussolini in July 1943 up to the capture of the city by General Mark Clark in June 1944. Rome became a city of spies, double agents, informers, torturers, escaped Allied... (read more) Your price: $10.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Their Other Side: Six American Women and the Lure of Italy by Helen Barolini Publisher Comments aOur lives are Swiss,a Emily Dickinson wrote in 1859, aSo stillaso cool.a But over the Alps, aItaly stands the other side.a For Dickinson, as for many other writers and artists, Italy has been the land of light, a seductive source of invention... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $11.87 Sale - Hardcover
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Pietros Book by Pietro Pinti Synopsis Pietro is a typical Tuscan peasant. He worked the land with hoe and plough from his earliest youth. Born, he explains, "in the Middle Ages", he has lived to see the world he knew and loved pass into history. Here, Jenny Bawtree provides an account of... (read more) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Tropic of Venice (Personal Takes) by Margaret Doody Publisher Comments For Margaret Doody, Venice, poised between East and West, earth and sea, sacred and profane, occupies a place only its own. Appearances confound. Renaissance ladies achieved their blond beauty by crimping and dyeing their hair in urine. The richly... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $15.37 Sale - Hardcover
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Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero by Lucy Riall Publisher Comments Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the 19th century. This book examines his life and the making of his cult-like following, assesses its impact, and chronicles its surprising success.... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price: $17.47 Sale - Hardcover
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Images of Quattrocento Florence: Selected Writings in Literature, History, and Art (Italian Literature and Thought Series) by Stefano Baldassarri Publisher Comments This anthology provides a panoramic view of fifteenth-century Florence in the words of the city's own citizens and visitors. The fifty-one selections -- many translated into English for the first time -- offer fascinating glimpses into Renaissance... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $13.27 Sale - Trade Paper
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