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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...
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Views of Rome
by Steven Brooke Publisher Comments Following the generations of view painters who recorded Rome for their time, Steven Brooke's collection of seductive and timeless images provides an extraordinary documentation of Rome in the late twentieth-century. Steven Brooke believes in the myth of...
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Midnight in Sicily
by Peter Robb 
Publisher Comments In late 1995 Giulio Andreotti, seven-time prime minister of Italy and once called "the finest political mind in Europe," went on trial both for murder and for his association with the Sicilian Mafia. With hundreds of witnesses still to be called, there...
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The Last Italian: Portrait of a People (Destination Book)
by William Murray Synopsis Since his childhood in Italy, William Murray has had a love affair with the country and its people. Here is his tribute to the Italy he so loves--a provocative, candid portrait that takes us off the beaten path and reveals an Italy not covered in any...
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History of Contemporary Italy: Society & Politics, 1943-1988
by Paul Ginsborg 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....
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Mussolini (Us)
by Jasper Ridley Publisher Comments Hardly the buffoon he is frequently made out to be, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was an able politician who won the esteem of many statesmen and who knew how to cooperate peacefully with foreign governments when it suited him. Mussolini, the first...
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A House in Sicily
by Daphne Phelps Publisher Comments This is the captivating memoir of a resourceful woman who started life anew in the "most beautiful house in Sicily." For fifty years, at Casa Cuseni in the small Sicilian town of Taormina, Daphne Phelps has extended her English charm and warm hospitality...
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Renaissance Florence
by Gene Brucker Synopsis In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the city of Florence experienced the most creative period in her entire history. This book is an in-depth analysis of that dynamic community, focusing primarily on the years 1380-1450 in an examination of the...
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Italy: Antique and Modern Genius (Exploring Countries of the WOR)
by Fabio Bourbon Synopsis Hundreds of full-color photographs bring to life the spectacular ruins of Roman civilization, the sumptuous art of Renaissance palaces, and the rugged Alpine ranges of Italy. Young armchair travelers will glide through the canals of Venice, feel the...
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The Italian Renaissance in Its Historical Background
by Denys Hay Publisher Comments Professor Hay provides a clear picture of what the Renaissance was, what it meant and how it spread. He shows the Renaissance as a growing and changing series of attitudes and ideas, rooted firmly in the general history of the period, and not as a static...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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For Solo Violin: A Memoir
by Aldo Zargani Publisher Comments In an extraordinary literary debut, Aldo Zargani reconstructs the lost world of his Jewish childhood during the perilous years 1938-45 when he and his family fled from Fascists and Nazis in northern Italy. His haunting memoir acquires a cinematic...
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Mussolini's Italy (Teach Yourself)
by David Evans Publisher Comments Teach Yourself History Each title in the history category of Teach Yourself makes complex events accessible when youre seeking an alternative to dry, academic texts. Incorporating gripping personal stories, our Teach Yourself History Books transform...
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The Body of Il Duce: Mussolini's Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy
by Sergio Luzzatto Publisher Comments A brilliant young historian follows the odyssey of Mussolini's body in an original exploration of the history and legacy of Italian Fascism Bullet-ridden, spat on, butchered bloody: this was the fate of Il Duce, strung up beside his dead mistress in a...
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Paradise of Cities Venice in the 19TH C
by Julius Norwich
Publisher Comments The greatest living chronicler of Venetian history brings to life the city’s magical charm in a beautifully illustrated and captivating book. John Julius Norwich, the author of the acclaimed A History of Venice, traces the transformation of Venice...
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Italy: A Difficult Democracy: A Survey of Italian Politics
by Frederic Spotts Publisher Comments Italy is the world's sixth economic power, lies in a key geopolitical position, and was a founding member of NATO and the European Community. Yet of all the major European states Italy is the least understood and studied. This book provides the only up...
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Armed Struggle in Italy 1976-78: A Chronology
by Elephant Editions Publisher Comments An incredible anthology. Not only was there an amazing amount of armed actions in Italy at this time, but those chronicled here (and there are 100s of them) were those carried out by autonomous/anarchist groups/affinity groups, not by the Red Brigades...
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Ruskin's Rose: A Venetian Love Story
by Ann Field Publisher Comments Venice can be a dangerous place for a man's emotions--particularly at Christmas, particularly if he's the grief-stricken art historian John Ruskin. In 1876, a year after the death of his clandestine love, Rose La Touche, Ruskin arrived in the city of...
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