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Brunelleschi's Dome (00 Edition)
by Ross King
Staff Pick
Of the many transformations that architecture has undergone throughout history, none is more important to the Renaissance than Filippo Brunelleschi's dome design for the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence. Few books have introduced Renaissance... ( read more)
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Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici
by Miles J Unger
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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)
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Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
by Roberto Saviano
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A groundbreaking, unprecedented bestseller in Italy, Roberto Saviano's insider account traces the decline of the city of Naples under the rule of the Camorra, an organized crime network more... ( read more)
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Their Other Side: Six American Women and the Lure of Italy
by Helen Barolini
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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... ( read more)
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The World of Venice: Revised Edition (Harvest Book)
by Jan Morris
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A fascinating exploration of the history, sights, seasons, arts, food, and people of an incomparable city. “A highly intelligent portrait of an eccentric city, written in powerful prose and enlivened by many curious mosaics of information...a... ( read more)
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The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Women in Culture & Society)
by Margaret Rosenthal
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The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onestathe honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered wit... ( read more)
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Un Paese
by Paul Strand
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"Wherever I happened to be," wrote Paul Strand, "I sought the signs of a long partnership that give each place its special quality and create the profiles of its people. . . . " In 1953 the renowned American photographer Paul Strand, who was then living... ( read more)
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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
by Frances Mayes
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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... ( read more)
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Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
by Robert D Putnam
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This text offers empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Its focus is on an experiment begun in 1970 when Italy created new governments for each of its regions.... ( read more)
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Garibaldi
by Jasper Ridley
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One of the world's greatest reformers, Garibaldi won his first battle against Aegean pirates, his last against German dragoons, and in between went to jail in Russia and led Brazilian rebels on the field. Twice an admiral and seven times a general, and a... ( read more)
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
by Sarah Bradford
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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... ( read more)
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The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany (Most Beautiful Villages)
by James Bentley
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Bentley highlights 37 villages and towns, both for their intrinsic beauty and for the part they have played in Tuscan history and culture. Page after page of Palmer's magnificent color photos evoke the beauty of the land. Specially compiled listings of... ( read more)
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Enchanted Liguria: The Glorious Lifestyle, Art, and Food of the Italian Riveria
by David Downie
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To travelers, the Italian Riviera and its famous villages-- Portofino, the Cinque Terre-- have meant "vacation," "sea" and "sun" for more than a century. To food lovers everywhere its culinary triumphs such as pesto, focaccia and ravioli are icons of... ( read more)
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Blood Washes Blood: A True Story of Love, Murder, and Redemption Under the Sicilian Sun
by Frank Viviano
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Against the sweeping backdrop of western Sicily, in a riveting seven-year quest, Frank Viviano pieces together his own harrowing ancestral history of betrayal and redemption. His take is haunted, from its violent opening to its stunning climax, by an... ( read more)
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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)
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The Devil's Broker: Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth- Century Italy
by Frances St Saunders
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This is the story of an age when everything had a price and mercenary companies were vastly rich corporations. By alternately besieging and protecting the richest pickings in Europe--Florence, Milan, Siena, and Pisa--John Hawkwood became the most wily... ( read more)
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Donatello Among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy
by Claudia Lazzaro
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Focuses on the appropriation of visual elements of the classical, medieval, and Renaissance past in Mussolini's Italy.... ( read more)
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Stones of Florence (02 Edition)
by Mccarthy
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This is a unique tribute to Florence, combining history, artistic description, and social observation. A memorable portrait of the Florentine spirit and of those figures who exemplify this spirit, such as Dante, Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, Donatello, and... ( read more)
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A Venetian Affair: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century
by Andrea Di Robilant
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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)
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Giovanni Agnelli Foundation Series in Italian History: Ideological Profile of Twentieth-Century Italy
by Norberto Bobbio
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Anyone interested in the entire sweep of political thought over the last hundred years will find in Norberto Bobbio's Ideological Profile of Twentieth-Century Italy a masterful, thought-provoking guide. Home to the largest communist party in a democratic... ( read more)
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