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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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones Publisher Comments In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very different country: one besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia. "The Dark Heart of... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $11.21 Used - Hardcover
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Midnight in Sicily by Peter Robb Publisher Comments From the author of M and A Death in Brazil comes Midnight in Sicily. South of mainland Italy lies the island of Sicily, home to an ancient culture that — with its stark landscapes, glorious coastlines, and extraordinary treasure troves of art... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Pushing Past the Night: Coming to Terms with Italy's Terrorist Past by Mario Calabresi Publisher Comments December 15, 1969, was the most important day of Mario Calabresi's life, although he would not be born for another year. On that date, the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli fell to his death from a window at the Milan police headquarters, where he was being... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rome the Biography of a City by Christopher Hibbert Synopsis A study of the scenic beauty and many-layered past of the Eternal City. From its quasi-mythical origins, through the opulent glory of classical Rome, the decadence and decay of the Middle Ages, to its time at the heart of Mussolini's fascist Italy, this... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - 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: $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 $15.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded by Marcello Simonetta Publisher Comments A brutal murder, a nefarious plot, a coded letter. After five hundred years, the most notorious mystery of the Renaissance is finally solved. The Italian Renaissance is remembered as much for intrigue as it is for art, with papal politics and infighting... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.42 New - Hardcover
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When in Rome : a Journal of Life in Vatican City (98 Edition) by Robert J. Hutchinson Publisher Comments When in Rome is a backstairs tour of one of the world's most mysterious and eccentric cities. Hutchinson introduces the varied and colorful individuals who live and work in the Vatican. In the process, he explores the mysterious orders of medieval... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy by Michael Tucker Publisher Comments From actor Michael Tucker comes this celebration of a good marriage and a careful study of the nature of home, written with an epicureans delight in detail and a gourmands appreciation for all things fine.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Imperial City: Rome Under Napoleon by Susan Vandiver Nicassio Publisher Comments In 1798, the armies of the French Revolution tried to transform Rome from the capital of the Papal States to a Jacobin Republic. For the next two decades, Rome was the subject of power struggles between the forces of the Empire and the Papacy, while... (read more) Your price: $19.00 New - Trade Paper
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Blood Washes Blood: A True Story of Love, Murder, and Redemption Under the Sicilian Sun by Frank Viviano Publisher Comments Against the sweeping backdrop of western Sicily, in a riveting seven-year quest, Frank Viviano pieces together his own harrowing ancestral history of betrayal and redemption. His take is haunted, from its violent opening to its stunning climax, by an... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo by Jane Schneider Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-330) and index.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria by Mark Rotella Publisher Comments Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy "-- "a rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during scorching summers. Calabria is also a seedbed of Italian-American culture; in North America, more people of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Italians: A Full-Length Portrait Featuring Their Manners and Morals by Luigi Barzini Publisher Comments In this consummate portrait of the Italian people, bestselling author, publisher, journalist, and politician Luigi Barzini delves deeply into the Italian national character, discovering both its great qualities and its imperfections. Barzini is... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Empires of Trust: How Rome Built--And America Is Building--A New World by Thomas F Madden Publisher Comments A tale of two superpowers unique in the history of the world, offering a totally original comparison of the United States and ancient Rome: celebrating similarities and delivering urgent insights into Americaas current crises. Does America face the same... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Italy: A Short History by Harry Hearder Publisher Comments Intended for the student of Italian history and culture as well as the general reader, this new edition presents a clear and concise account of the principal developments in Italian history from the Ice Age to the present day. Dr. Jonathan Morris has... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sicily: Three Thousand Years of Human History by Sandra Benjamin Synopsis Tourists, armchair travelers, and historians will all delight in this fluid narrative that can be read straight through, dipped into over time, or used as a reference guide to each period in Sicily's fascinating tale. Emigration of people from Sicily... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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