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Dreaming of Tuscany: Where to Find the Best There Is: Perfect Hilltowns, Splendid Palazzos, Rustic Farmhouses, Glorious Gardens, Authentic
by Barbara Milo. Photographs By Simon Upton Ohrbach  Publisher Comments A tribute to the lifestyle and unique qualities of Tuscany is a photographic celebration of its art, architecture, fashion, and foods, in an insider's tour that makes visitor recommendations for some of the region's most culturally rich markets, museums,...
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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...
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The Jews in Sicily; V.9: Corte Pretoriana and Notaries of Palermo.
by Shlomo Simonsohn Synopsis This volume documents the history of the Jews in Sicily based on notarial and court records. It illustrate the economic, social, and religious history of the Jewish minority and the relations with the Christian majority. The volume is provided with...
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Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero
by Lucy Riall Publisher Comments Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the 19th century. This book examines his life and the making of his cult-like following, assesses its impact, and chronicles its surprising success....
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Nonpareil Book #82: Images & Shadows: Part of a Life
by Iris Origo Publisher Comments Iris origo was born in 1992 and instantly catapulted into a life of "unfair advantages of birth, education, money, environment and opportunity." But she used this birth-right wisely, and her legacy includes a string of books beloved equally by historians...
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Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies #77: Patronage and Dynasty: The Rise of the Della Rovere in Renaissance Italy
by Ian F. Verstegen Publisher Comments This collection of essays offers a thorough study of the patron-artist relationship through the lens of one of early modern Italy's most powerful and influential historical families. Contributors present a longitudinal study of the della Rovere family's...
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Venice, Tourist Maze : Cultural Critique of the World's Most Touristed City (04 Edition)
by Robert C. Davis Publisher Comments A cultural critique of the world's most touristed city....
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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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Prisoner of the Vatican: the Pope's Secret Plot To Capture Rome From the New Italian State
by David I. Kertzer Publisher Comments 'Praise for David Kertzer and Prisoner of the Vatican: \"Kertzer once again proves himself a truly compelling historian.\" -- André Aciman \"Prisoner of the Vatican reads like exciting fiction. And it has astounding contemporary relevance...
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Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy
by Mark F. And K. Robert Nilsson Gilbert Book News Annotation In nearly 400 cross-referenced entries readers get top-level information on the people, events, social developments and cultural achievements of Italy from the early nineteenth century onward. Gilbert (contemporary European history, U. of Trento...
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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...
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Books for Burning: Between Civil War and Democracy in 1970s Italy
by Antonio Negri Publisher Comments Early political writings of Antonio Negri, published for the first time since the 1970s, along with his new, in-depth examination of how this early work is related to his widely acclaimed current scholarship, and to the current "war on terrorism."...
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Roman Crossings: Theory and Practice in the Roman Republic
by Kathryn Welch And T. W. Hillard Book News Annotation Theory and practice in the modern historical study of the Roman Republic are discussed in 11 essays by mostly Australian scholars, five of them from a September 1999 conference in Sydney. Among their topics are the law that Catullus passed, Livy and...
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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...
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The Secrets of Rome: Love & Death in the Eternal City
by Corrado Augias Publisher Comments From Italy's popular author Corrado Augias comes the most intriguing exploration of Rome ever to be published. In the mold of his earlier histories of Paris, New York, and London, Augias moves perceptively through twenty-seven centuries of Roman life...
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The Etruscans Outside Etruria
by Giovannangelo Camporeale. Trans. By Thomas Michael Hartmann Publisher Comments During the last millennium B.C., before the coming of the Romans, the Etruscans built a thriving civilization in the western Mediterranean basin, which was rich in natural resources. From the eighth century B.C., Etruria became a destination on the...
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Garibaldi: Citizen of the World: A Biography
by Alfonso Scirocco Publisher Comments What adventure novelist could have invented the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi? The revolutionary, soldier, politician, and greatest figure in the fight for Italian unification, Garibaldi (1807-1882) brought off almost as many dramatic exploits in the...
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The Other Venice: Secrets of the City
by Predrag Matvejevic Publisher Comments To know a city is to become intimately intertwined with its nooks, crevices, secret passageways, and dark places where its lifeblood flows—and what city has more of those than Venice? In The Other Venice, Predrag Matvejevic ventures past the...
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The Excavations of San Giovanni Di Ruoti; V.3: the Faunal and Plant Remains.
by Alastair M. Small And Robert J. Buck Publisher Comments This 3rd volume of "The Excavations of San Giovanni di Ruoti" series deals with the social, economic, and environmental information derived from the analysis of zooarchaeological and palaeobotanical remains found at the fourth-century A.D. Italian villa...
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History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity #275: The Governor and His Subjects in the Later Roman Empire
by Dani<:e>lle Slootjes Publisher Comments This book presents new insights into the relationship between governors and provincial subjects in the Later Roman Empire. Discussion of provincial expectations and perception, the continuous dialogue, interdependence and reciprocity leads to a better...
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