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A Sudden Terror: The Plot to Murder the Pope in Renaissance Rome by Anthony F. D'elia Publisher Comments In 1468, on the final night of Carnival in Rome, Pope Paul II sat enthroned above the boisterous crowd, when a scuffle caught his eye. His guards had intercepted a mysterious stranger trying urgently to convey a warning--conspirators were lying in wait... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover 
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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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard Publisher Comments Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent history, from the sixth century BCEto the present day... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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The Pope's Legion: The Multinational Fighting Force That Defended the Vatican by Charles A. Coulombe Synopsis With Arthurian grandeur the Papal Zouaves marched into Italy in the mid-nineteenth century, summoned by the Pope under siege as the Wars of the Risorgimento raged. Motivated by wanderlust, a sense of duty and the call of faith, some 20,000 Catholic men... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Agricola: And the Germania by Cornelius Tacitus and Harold B. Mattingly and S. A. Hanford Publisher Comments Detailed historical accounts of the British Isles ("Agricola") and the virtues of the Germans ("Germania").... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston Publisher Comments In the tradition of John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City, Douglas Preston weaves a captivating account of crime and punishment in the lush hills of Florence, Italy. Douglas Preston fulfilled... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, & Scientific Culture by Paula Findlen Publisher Comments "As a study of late Renaissance naturalists, the science they practised, and the fit between that science and late Renaissance court life, the book has no rival."--Anthony Grafton, Princeton... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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My Rise and Fall by Benito Mussolini Publisher Comments Here, for the first time in one volume, are two rare autobiographical works by Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), founder of Fascism and Italian dictator for 21 years. The first volume (published in English in 1928 as My Autobiography) describes Mussolini's... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - 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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Community and Identity: The Making of Modern Gibraltar Since 1704 by Stephen Constantine Publisher Comments This fluent, accessible and richly informed study, based on previously unexplored archival material, concerns the history of Gibraltar following its military conquest in 1704, after which sovereignty of the territory was transferred from Spain to Britain... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - 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 $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Boundaries of Eros (85 Edition) by Guido Ruggiero Review "Extremely welcome for its systematic attempt to squeeze information about changing attitudes to sexuality from the judicial records."--The London Review of Books "As full a picture as can be constructed from the scraps of legal and other documents... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $38.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The History of the Kingdom of Naples, Volume 1 & 2: From the Accession of Charles of Bourbon to the Death of Ferdinand I by Pietro Colletta Publisher Comments The history of the kingdom of Naples is intimately tied to the history of Europe and reflects the intrigue, turmoil and bloody relations of the ruling dynasties and governments of the time. The interests of France, Britain, Austria, Spain are all... (read more) Your price: $402.95 New - Hardcover
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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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Pasquale's Nose: Idle Days in an Italian Town by Michael Rips Publisher Comments Hailed for its quirkiness and charm, this book tells the story of a New York City lawyer who runs away to a small Etruscan village with his wife and baby and discovers a community of eccentrics who make them feel right at home.... (read more) List Price $19.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Columbus: And the Conquest of the Impossible by F Fernandez Armesto Synopsis This controversial biography of Christopher Columbus argues that he is best understood as a primitive celestial navigator, fuelled by a progressive religiosity yet strongly influenced by mysticism and millennarianism.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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One Hundred and One Beautiful Small Towns of Italy by Paolo Lazzarin Publisher Comments Who hasn't dreamt of being whisked away to a sweet little Italian town buried deep in the countryside-towns with names that roll off the tongue like Vercelli, Portofino, and Tuscania? The small towns sprinkled throughout this expansive book are not only... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $32.00 Used - Hardcover
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Italy and Its Discontents: Family, Civil Society, State by Paul Ginsborg Publisher Comments A major bestseller in Italy, Paul Ginsborg's account of this most recent and dynamic period in Italy's history is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand contemoprary Italy. Ginsborg chronicles a period that witnessed a radical transformation... (read more) Your price: $30.95 New - Trade Paper
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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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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: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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