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The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded
The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded
by Marcello Simonetta
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A brutal murder, a nefarious plot, a coded letter. After five hundred years, the most notorious mystery of the Renaissance is finally solved. The Italian Renaissance is remembered as much for intrigue as it is for art, with papal politics and infighting... (read more)

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Rome the Biography of a City
Rome the Biography of a City
by Christopher Hibbert
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A study of the scenic beauty and many-layered past of the Eternal City. From its quasi-mythical origins, through the opulent glory of classical Rome, the decadence and decay of the Middle Ages, to its time at the heart of Mussolini's fascist Italy, this... (read more)

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Italy (History of Nations)
Italy (History of Nations)
by Tara Koellhoffer
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-244) and index.... (read more)

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The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Women in Culture & Society)
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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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
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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Borgias (08 Edition)
Borgias (08 Edition)
by Hibbert
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The first major biography of the Borgias in thirty years, Christopher Hibbert's latest history brings the family and the world they lived inthe glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissanceto life. The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism,... (read more)

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Blood Washes Blood: A True Story of Love, Murder, and Redemption Under the Sicilian Sun
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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Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo
Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo
by Jane Schneider
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-330) and index.... (read more)

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The Italians: A Full-Length Portrait Featuring Their Manners and Morals
The Italians: A Full-Length Portrait Featuring Their Manners and Morals
by Luigi Barzini
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In this consummate portrait of the Italian people, bestselling author, publisher, journalist, and politician Luigi Barzini delves deeply into the Italian national character, discovering both its great qualities and its imperfections. Barzini is... (read more)

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A Tuscan Childhood
A Tuscan Childhood
by Kinta Beevor
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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... (read more)

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Stones of Florence (02 Edition)
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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Villages of Italy
Villages of Italy
by Antonio Attini
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Imagine yourself in a rustic farmhouse in Tuscany, sipping cappuccino al fresco in an intimate piazza, or eating fresh-caught fish in a restaurant overlooking the sea. Featuring the spectacular travel photography for which White Star is world renowned... (read more)

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A Venetian Affair: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century
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
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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Mussolini's Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Fascist Vision
Mussolini's Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Fascist Vision
by Edwin P Hoyt
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A fast-paced account of Benito Mussolini's personality and the political culture which led to his rise to and fall from power. According to Hoyt, many people today forget some of the remarkable facts about his rule: for instance, that he came to power... (read more)

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Mission Italy: On the Front Lines of the Cold War
Mission Italy: On the Front Lines of the Cold War
by Richard N Gardner
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This compelling memoir of Richard N. Gardner's years as ambassador to Italy from 1977 to 1981 offers fascinating insights into the foreign policy of the Carter administration as well as into a critical turning point in Italian history and in the history... (read more)

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Italia: Portrait of a Country Throughout 60 Years of Photography
Italia: Portrait of a Country Throughout 60 Years of Photography
by Giovanna Calvenzi
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The ultimate photo book that deals with one of the most photographed countries in the world. This passionate, comprehensive visual tale of Italy is accompanied by the images of the greatest photographers from all over the world-those who have documented,... (read more)

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April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici
April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici
by Lauro Martines
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One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing narrative opens up an entire culture, revealing the dark side of Renaissance man and politician... (read more)

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The Stones of Venice: The Foundations Part One
The Stones of Venice: The Foundations Part One
by John Ruskin
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1851. With illustrations. Ruskin, the greatest Victorian bar Victoria, was an artist, scientist, poet, environmentalist, philosopher, and the preeminent art critic of his time. This is the first in his three-volume masterpiece on Venetian art and... (read more)

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Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val D'Orcia
Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val D'Orcia
by Caroline Moorehead
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Iris Origo was one of those rare characters that, despite being born with a platinum spoon in her mouth, went on to accomplish great things. In Origo?s case, she managed to add light and color to everything she touched and left for posterity... (read more)

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