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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
by Rick Atkinson  Publisher Comments In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy. In An Army at Dawn — winner of the Pulitzer Prize —...
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The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796
by Christopher Duggan Publisher Comments A sweeping, first-of-its-kind history of the creation of modern Italy The birth of modern Italy was a messy affair. Inspired by a small group of writers, intellectuals, and politicians, Italy struggled in the first half of the nineteenth century to unite...
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Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's
by R A Scotti Publisher Comments In this dramatic journey through religious and artistic history, R. A. Scotti traces the defining event of a glorious epoch: the building of St. Peteras Basilica. Begun by the ferociously ambitious Pope Julius II in 1506, the endeavor would span two...
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Venice from the Ground Up (From the Ground Up)
by James H. S. Mcgregor Publisher Comments Venice came to life on spongy mudflats at the edge of the habitable world. Protected in a tidal estuary from barbarian invaders and Byzantine overlords, the fishermen, salt gatherers, and traders who settled there crafted an amphibious way of life unlike...
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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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Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
by John Cornwell Synopsis The aexplosivea (The New York Times) bestselleranow with a new introduction by the author When Hitler as Pope, the shocking story of Pope Pius XII that aredefined the history of the twentieth centurya (The Washington Post ) was originally published, it...
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Amalia's Tale: A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice
by David I Kertzer Publisher Comments This quintessential David-and-Goliath saga tells the story of a wholly unexpected triumph of the poor against the rich and of a crusading city attorney who fought on behalf of an impoverished peasant. Amalia Bagnacavalli, an illiterate young peasant from...
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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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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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Italians
by Luigi Barzini Synopsis This is an examination of the Italian people, their character and history, by a foreign correspondent....
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Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944-1945
by James Holland Publisher Comments During the Second World War, the campaign in Italy was the most destructive fought in Europe – a long, bitter and highly attritional conflict that raged up the country’s mountainous leg. For frontline troops, casualty rates at Cassino...
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Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
by Tim Parks Publisher Comments Their name is a byword for immense wealth and power, but before their renown as art patrons and noblemen the Medicis build their fortune on banking — specifically, on lending money at interest. Banking in the fifteenth century, even at the height of...
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
by Sarah Bradford Publisher Comments The very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissanceincest, political assassination, papal sexual abuse, poisonous intrigue, unscrupulous power grabs. Yet, as bestselling biographer Sarah Bradford...
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Pompeii Awakened: A Story of Rediscovery
by Judith Harris Publisher Comments On that fateful day in AD 79 the city of Pompeii was lost, and in time its location, its inhabitants and even its name were buried and forgotten. Not until 1748 did it emerge from its layer of volcanic rock, and the impact of that discovery was immediate...
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Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
by Roberto Saviano Publisher Comments A groundbreaking major bestseller in Italy, Gomorrah is Roberto Saviano’s gripping nonfiction account of the decline of Naples under the rule of the Camorra, an organized crime network with a large international reach and stakes in construction...
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Venice : a Maritime Republic (73 Edition)
by Frederic C. Lane Synopsis "Frederic Lane has achieved what is the often unfulfilled dream of every historian who has devoted his entire work to the exploration of partial aspects of a single broad subject: he has given us a comprehensive, thoughtful, readable, beautifully...
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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
by Carlo Ginzburg Synopsis "A wonderful book... Ginzburg is a historian with an insatiable curiosity, who pursues even the faintest of clues with all the zest of a born detective until every fragment of evidence can be fitted into place." -- New York Review of Books...
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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...
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Pasquale's Nose: Idle Days in an Italian Town
by Michael Rips Synopsis 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....
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Venice, the Tourist Maze: A Cultural Critique of the World's Most Touristed City
by Robert C Davis Publisher Comments A cultural critique of the world's most touristed city....
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