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The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded by Marcello Simonetta Publisher Comments 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) List Price $26.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Rome the Biography of a City by Christopher Hibbert Synopsis 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) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Italy (History of Nations) by Tara Koellhoffer Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-244) and index.... (read more) List Price $41.50 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover 
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The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Women in Culture & Society) by Margaret Rosenthal Publisher Comments 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) List Price $30.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Borgias (08 Edition) by Hibbert Publisher Comments 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) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Blood Washes Blood: A True Story of Love, Murder, and Redemption Under the Sicilian Sun by Frank Viviano Publisher Comments 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) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Italians: A Full-Length Portrait Featuring Their Manners and Morals by Luigi Barzini Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Tuscan Childhood by Kinta Beevor Publisher Comments 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) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stones of Florence (02 Edition) by Mccarthy Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Villages of Italy by Antonio Attini Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Giovanni Agnelli Foundation Series in Italian History: Ideological Profile of Twentieth-Century Italy by Norberto Bobbio Publisher Comments 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) List Price $40.00 Your price: $11.21 Used - Hardcover
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Mussolini's Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Fascist Vision by Edwin P Hoyt Book News Annotation 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) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mission Italy: On the Front Lines of the Cold War by Richard N Gardner Publisher Comments 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) List Price $42.50 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Italia: Portrait of a Country Throughout 60 Years of Photography by Giovanna Calvenzi Publisher Comments 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) List Price $60.00 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici by Lauro Martines Publisher Comments 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) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Stones of Venice: The Foundations Part One by John Ruskin Publisher Comments 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) List Price $37.95 Your price: $21.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val D'Orcia by Caroline Moorehead Publisher Comments 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) List Price $35.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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