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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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The Hill Towns of Italy
by Richard Kauffman
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Now available from Chronicle Books, this classic volume is a glorious tribute to one of the most beautiful regions in the world. Thousands of Americans visit Tuscany and Umbria each year, and the timeless charms of the hill towns of northern Italy are... ( read more)
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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)
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
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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Italia
by Edmund Howard
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For over two thousand years, Italy has been a major source of cultural and artistic inspiration to the rest of the world. This book focuses on the most characteristic examples of the Italian genius, from lavish piazzas and magnificent fountains to... ( read more)
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When in Rome
by Robert J Hutchinson
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When in Rome is a backstairs tour of one of the world's most mysterious and eccentric cities. Hutchinson introduces the varied and colorful individuals who live and work in the Vatican. In the process, he explores the mysterious orders of medieval... ( read more)
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Tuscany: Inside the Light
by Joel Meyerowitz
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Photographer Joel Meyerowitz and novelist/playwright Maggie Barrett have combined talents to create a loving and personal portrait of Tuscany through the seasons.... ( read more)
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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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The Stones of Venice
by John Ruskin
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”It is in Venice, and in Venice only, that effectual blows can be struck at this pestilent art of the Renaissance. Destroy its claims to admiration there, and it can assert them nowhere else.” This was Ruskin’s war cry as he entered the... ( read more)
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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Oxford Paperbacks)
by Michael Baxandall
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Serving as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of pictures in a given historical period, this new edition to Baxandall's pre-eminent scholarly volume examines early... ( read more)
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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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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
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
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
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
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
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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Italian Politics Today (Politics Today)
by Hilary Partridge
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This book is a clear and accessible guide to the labyrinth of Italian politics and the social forces that shape them. Following the "sweet revolution" that swept away the political class that had dominated politics in Italy since the last war, Hilary... ( read more)
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