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Complete Idiot's Guide To Italian History and Culture (02 Edition)
by Euvino  Publisher Comments A beginner's/re-learner's look at the history and culture of Italy, as well as the Italian-American experience.<P>-- The success of The Complete Idiot's Guide "RM" to Jewish History and Culture and The Complete Idiot's Guide "RM" to Irish History...
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Mazzini
by Denis Mack Smith Publisher Comments This book by one of the most distinguished historians of Italy is the first modern biography in English of Giuseppe Mazzini, one of the leading figures in the political and intellectual world of mid-nineteenth-century Europe. Denis Mack Smith reexamines...
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Italy (History of Nations)
by Tara Koellhoffer Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-244) and index....
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Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome (Ancient Society and History)
by Gregory S Aldrete Publisher Comments In the first book-length treatment of the impact of floods on an ancient city, Aldrete draws upon a diverse range of scientific and cultural data to develop a rich and detailed account of flooding in Rome throughout the classical period....
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The Souls of Venice
by Janet Sethre Publisher Comments People who have helped shape and been shaped by Venice are considered in five groups: the "mutilated culture heroes" (e.g., the eunuch Narses) who with some great sacrifice helped the city define itself; the "fugitives from splendor" (such as St. Pietro...
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The City of Falling Angels
by John Berendt 
Powells.com 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...
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Venice from the Ground Up
by James H S Mcgregor Publisher Comments The history of Venice is told in this narrative that follows a chronological and geographical organization so that the city's growth and evolution can be traced chapter by chapter and readers can explore it district by district on foot and by boat....
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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....
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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...
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The Jews in Sicily; V.10: Notaries of Palermo; PT. 1.
by Shlomo Simonsohn Publisher Comments 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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The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
by David I Kertzer Publisher Comments Bologna: nightfall, June 1858. A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara. Two officers of the Inquisition burst inside and seize Mortara's six-year-old son, Edgardo. The reason for his abduction: the boy had been secretly "baptized"...
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Italy (Oxford Illustrated Histories)
by George Holmes Publisher Comments The name Italy evokes history and splendor. Toga-clad Romans, sweeping vistas of vineyards and olive groves, the majesty of a Papal mass, Dante's Comedia, and Leonardo's haunting Mona Lisa. Few nations can boast as rich an artistic and cultural legacy...
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Pietro's Book: The Story of a Tuscan Peasant
by Pietro And Jenny Bawtree Pinti Book News Annotation Unlike such accounts as Under the Tuscan Sun, Pinti's (b. 1927) offers an insider's perspective on the annual cycle of a traditional lifestyle. With humor, wisdom, and the help of an English transplant to Tuscany, he conveys a sense of life in the war...
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Not Built in a Day: Exploring Rome and Its Architecture
by George H. Sullivan Publisher Comments This book is a unique, eye-opening guide to one of the world's most magnificent cities, celebrating the special character of Rome's buildings, fountains, piazzas, streets, and ruins with illuminating insight and irresistible enthusiasm — for the...
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A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics, 1943-1988
by Paul Ginsborg Publisher Comments From a war-torn and poverty-stricken country, regional and predominantly agrarian, to the success story of recent years, Italy has witnessed the most profound transformation--economic, social and demographic--in its entire history. Yet the other...
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That Fine Italian Hand
by Paul Hofmann Publisher Comments No other people over so long a history have shown a greater knack for survival than the Italians. In this wryly affectionate book, Hofmann reveals his adopted countrymen in all their glorious paradoxes, capturing their national essence as no other book...
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Fornovo 1495: France's Bloody Fighting Retreat (Praeger Illustrated Military History)
by David Nicolle Publisher Comments In the year 1495, Charles VIII was the youthful King of France, the most powerful state in medieval Europe. A dreamer who saw himself as the saviour of Christian Europe, he believed he could roll back the ever-spreading tide of Ottoman Turkish conquest...
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Politics in a Museum: Governing Post-War Florence (Italian and Italian American Studies)
by James Edward Miller Publisher Comments How and why has the city of Florence, one of the great treasure houses of western civilization, been reduced to little more than a Renaissance Disneyland for tourists? Florence, once a center of national intellectual creativity, has become a city with...
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The Sack of Rome: Media + Money + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi
by Alexander Stille Publisher Comments Stille uses the incredible and appallingly entertaining story of Silvio Berlusconi's rise to power to paint a portrait of Italy today that's invaluable for anyone who wants to understand that country or put the United State's problems in perspective....
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The Crisis of the Italian State: From the Origins of the Cold War to the Fall of Berlusconi and Beyond
by Patrick Mccarthy Publisher Comments In the first full length English language account of the Clean Hands Crisis of the Italian government, Patrick McCarthy finds the roots of Berlusconis rise and fall in the practices of clientalism, the machinations of the Mafia, the corporate direction...
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