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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments Frances Mayes—widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer—opens the door to a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. In evocative language, she brings the reader... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - 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 Venices glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the citys oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful, illegitimate daughter... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Italian Renaissance Reader by Julia Co Bondanella Publisher Comments A single volume introduction to the major writers of the Italian Renaissance—Petrarch, Boccaccio, Alberti, della Mirandola, da Vinci, Castiglione, Machiavelli, Buonarroti, Guicciardini, Cellini, and Vasari.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Book Club Paperback
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The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt Publisher Comments Taking the fire that destroyed the Fenice theatre in 1996 as his starting point, John Berendt creates a unique and unforgettable portrait of Venice and its extraordinary inhabitants. Beneath the exquisite facade of the world's most beautiful historic... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - 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... (read more) Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944-1945 by James Holland Publisher Comments During the Second World War, the campaign in Italy was the most destructive fought in Europe - a long, bitter and highly attritional conflict that raged up the country's mountainous leg. For frontline troops, casualty rates at Cassino and along the... (read more) Your price: $6.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Italian Renaissance by J. H. Plumb Publisher Comments A definitive overview of Renaissance-era Italy.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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History of Contemporary Italy: Society & Politics, 1943-1988 by Paul Ginsbor Synopsis A social and political analysis of the Italian Peninsula since the fall of Mussolini. Achievements and political parties are described as well as matters concerning family life and the declining role of the Catholic Church.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt 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... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Travels with a Medieval Queen by Mary Taylor Simeti Publisher Comments Two Women Set Out Across Europe in Search of a Dead Queen The medieval queen in question is Constance of Hauteville, daughter of the Norman King Roger II of Sicily, wife of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI, and mother to the Emperor Frederick II. In 1194,... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Modern Italy: Representation and Reform by Paul Furlong Publisher Comments Modern Italy provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary Italian politics and the development of public policy in Italy. Paul Furlong provides a detailed examination of how Italy's political institutions have developed since 1945 and how they... (read more) List Price $65.25 Your price: $3.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Paradise of Cities: Venice in the Nineteenth Century by John Julius Norwich Publisher Comments John Julius Norwichs A History of Venice has been dubbed “indispensable” by none other than Jan Morris. Now, in his second book on the city once known as La Serenissima, Norwich advances the story in this elegant chronicle of a hundred years... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Need to Testify by Iris Origo Publisher Comments Available again in this new edition, Origo's memoir tells the story of four friends, each of whom made various life sacrifices in the fight for non fascist Italy.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - 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: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hill Towns of Italy by Richard Kauffman Publisher Comments Now available from Chronicle Books, this classic volume is a glorious tribute to one of the most beautiful regions in the world. Thousands of Americans visit Tuscany and Umbria each year, and the timeless charms of the hill towns of northern Italy are... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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