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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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 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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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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Prisoner of the Vatican: the Pope's Secret Plot To Capture Rome From the New Italian State by David I. Kertzer Publisher Comments Praise for David Kertzer and Prisoner of the Vatican: "Kertzer once again proves himself a truly compelling historian." -- André Aciman "Prisoner of the Vatican reads like exciting fiction. And it has astounding contemporary relevance." -- Alfred... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fortune is a River: Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History by Roger D Masters Publisher Comments Few people know that Leonardo da Vinci and Niccol Machiavelli crossed paths when Leonardo worked -- ostensibly as an engineer, possibly as a spy -- in Cesare Borgia's court and Machiavelli was Florence's ambassador there. Soon thereafter, they formed a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $7.46 Used - Hardcover
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Pushing Past the Night: Coming to Terms with Italy's Terrorist Past by Mario Calabresi Publisher Comments December 15, 1969, was the most important day of Mario Calabresi's life, although he would not be born for another year. On that date, the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli fell to his death from a window at the Milan police headquarters, where he was being... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Hibbert Publisher Comments It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and controlled politics, scientists, artists, and even popes, for three hundred years. It was the house of Medici,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 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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Gomorrah: a Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System (07 Edition) by Roberto Saviano Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Concise History of Italy (Cambridge Concise Histories) by Christopher Duggan Publisher Comments A concise history of Italy from the fall of the Roman empire in the west to the present day.... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Italy: A Traveler's Literary Companion by Lawrence Venuti Publisher Comments Italy’s rising literary stars join some of its best-known writers — including Nobel-laureate Luigi Pirandello, Natalia Ginzburg, Alberto Moravia, and Antonio Tabucchi — to take the reader on a panoramic tour of both city and countryside,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mussolini As Diplomat: Il Duce's Italy on the World Stage by Richard Lamb Publisher Comments An eminent historian provides a revisionist assessment of the Italian dictator's diplomatic blunders from pre-World War II Europe, focusing primarily on his relations with Britain and secondarily with France, until his fatal miscalculation in 1945... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $11.96 Used - Hardcover
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Lonely Planet a Small Place in Italy (Lonely Planet Journeys) by Eric Newby Publisher Comments In 1967 Eric and Wanda Newby fulfilled a long-cherished dream when they bought a run-down farmhouse in northern Tuscany, in the foothills of the Italian Alps. They were the first foreigners to live in the region. A Small Place in Italy describes how the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.95 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: $9.95 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: $30.00 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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