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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
by Sarah Bradford
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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)
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Scourge & Fire Savonarola & Renaiss
by Lauro Martines
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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)
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Gomorrah Italy's Other Mofia
by Roberto Saviano
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Published to coincide with the eponymous blockbuster film, Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller and has to date sold 750,000 copies in Italy alone. Since publishing his searing expose of their... ( read more)
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Venice Carnival
by Paolo Alei
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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)
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Garibaldi's Defence of the Roman Republic: 1848-9
by George M Trevelyan
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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)
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A Venetian Affair: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century
by Andrea Di Robilant
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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)
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Their Other Side: Six American Women and the Lure of Italy
by Helen Barolini
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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)
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A Tuscan Childhood
by Kinta Beevor
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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)
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Tuscany Flying High (Flying High)
by Antonio Attini
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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)
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The Last Days of Mussolini
by Ray Moseley
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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)
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Italian Days
by Barbara Gr Harrison
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"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)
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The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro
by Joe Mcginniss
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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)
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Pietros Book
by Pietro Pinti
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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)
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Tropic of Venice (Personal Takes)
by Margaret Doody
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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)
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Images of Quattrocento Florence: Selected Writings in Literature, History, and Art (Italian Literature and Thought Series)
by Stefano Baldassarri
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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)
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Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero
by Lucy Riall
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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)
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Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic
by Alexander Stille
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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)
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Murder of a Medici Princess
by Caroline Murphy
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In Murder of a Medici Princess, Caroline Murphy illuminates the brilliant life and tragic death of Isabella de Medici, one of the brightest stars in the dazzling world of Renaissance Italy, the daughter of Duke Cosimo I, ruler of Florence and Tuscany... ( read more)
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Italy (Small Panorama)
by Michael Heatley
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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)
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Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for Renaissance Florence
by Lauro Martines
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A gripping and beautifully written narrative that reads like a novel, Fire in the City presents a compelling account of a key moment in the history of the Renaissance, illuminating the remarkable man who dominated the period, the charismatic Girolamo... ( read more)
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