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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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The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Women in Culture & Society) by Margaret Rosenthal Publisher Comments The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onesta—the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Stones of Florence by Mary Mccarthy Publisher Comments A beloved tribute to Florence that blends history, artistic reflection, and keen social observation Renowned for her sharp literary style, essayist and fiction writer Mary McCarthy offers a unique history of Florence, from its inception to the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Hibbert Publisher Comments It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and controlled politics, scientists, artists, and even popes, for three hundred years. It was the house of Medici,... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Florence and the Medici by J R Hale Publisher Comments The enduring fascination of the Medici springs from their ability--as individuals and as a family--to control the government of Florence, first as a quasi-democracy and finally through inheritance. Based on the latest research, this perceptive study, by... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of Venice (82 Edition) by John Julius Norwich Publisher Comments Traces the rise ot empire of this city from its 5th century beginnings all the way through until 1797 when Napolean put an end to the thousand year-old Republic. 32 pages of black and white photos, 4 maps and charts.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.00 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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Lady Queen by Nancy Goldstone Publisher Comments In 1348, at the age of twenty-two, Joanna I, the queen of Naples, stood trial before the pope, accused of murdering her cousin and husband, Hungarian prince Andrew. Arguing her own case in Latin, she won her acquittal, and went on to become the only... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Stones of Venice: Volume II. the Sea-Stories by John Ruskin Publisher Comments More than 150 years after its first publication in 1851-53, this massive work by a great Victorian writer, critic, and artist remains one of the most influential books on art and architecture ever written. In it John Ruskin surveys many of the principal... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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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.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King Staff Pick Of the many transformations that architecture has undergone throughout history, none is more important to the Renaissance than Filippo Brunelleschi's dome design for the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence. Few books have introduced Renaissance... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Il Gigante: Michelangelo, Florence, and the David, 1492-1504 by Anton Gill Publisher Comments British Praise for Il Gigante: "There is certainly nothing rushed about this excellent account of the world's greatest sculptor... Through Gill's sensitive and accessible reading of the David in particular we can perhaps feel a little closer to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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What Life Was Like at the Rebirth of Genius: Renaissance Italy, Ad 1400-1550 by Time Life Publisher Comments Drawing on art, artifacts, and literature that was left behind, these richly illustrated volumes recount captivating tales of everyday life in long-ago vanished worlds.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 by Christopher Hibbert Publisher Comments The first major biography of the Borgias in thirty years, Christopher Hibbert's latest history brings the family and the world they lived in—the glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissance—to life. The name Borgia is synonymous with the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici by Miles 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 $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance by Guido Ruggiero Publisher Comments Mining the rich Venetian archives, especially the unusually detailed records of Venice's own branch of the Roman Inquisition, Guido Ruggiero provides a strikingly new and provocative interpretation of the end of the Renaissance in Italy. In this boldly... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $46.25 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The History of Italy by France Guicciardini Review Guicciardini's objectivity is awesome . . . the combination of tumultuous events and the cold lunar language he uses to describe them gives his history its unique and incomparable cachet. -- "The New York Times... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tilt: A Skewed History of the Tower of Pisa by Nicholas Shrady Publisher Comments In Tilt, author Nicholas Shrady reveals how the campanile, or bell tower, in Pisa's Campo dei Miracoli became the iconic Tower of Pisa. Even standing straight and true, the tower's marble and lime facade would be instantly recognizable the world over... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Speaking of Slavery: Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italy (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past) by Steven A Epstein Publisher Comments In this highly original work, Steven A. Epstein shows that the ways Italians employ words and think about race and labor are profoundly affected by the language used in medieval Italy to sustain a system of slavery. The author's findings about the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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