Gardening Sale!
 
 

Special Offers see all

Enter to WIN!

Weekly drawing for $100 credit. Subscribe to our Specials newsletter for a chance to win.
Privacy Policy

More at Powell's


Italy


Used Aisles


spacer

Italy
Used Books

There are 202 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.

Featured Titles in Italy - Used Books
Page 1 of 11 next

Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
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 $16.00
Your price: $6.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


House of Medici : Its Rise and Fall (80 Edition)
House of Medici : Its Rise and Fall (80 Edition)
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 $16.99
Your price: $9.00
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici
The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici
by Elizabeth Lev
Publisher Comments
“Well-written and meticulously researched, The Tigress of Forlì recreates the world of Renaissance Italy in all its grandeur and violence. At the center stands a remarkable woman, Caterina Riario Sforza. Mother, warrior, and icon, Caterina... (read more)

List Price $14.95
Your price: $10.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Stones of Florence
The Stones of Florence
by Mary Mccarthy
Publisher Comments
A beloved tribute to Florence that blends history, artistic reflection, and keen social observation   Renowned for her sharp literary style, essayist and fiction writer Mary McCarthy offers a unique history of Florence, from its inception to the... (read more)

List Price $14.00
Your price: $7.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
by Sarah Bradford
Publisher Comments
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)

List Price $16.00
Your price: $4.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Movimento: Glimpses of Italian Street Life
Movimento: Glimpses of Italian Street Life
by Harvey Stein
Book News Annotation
New York based photographer Harvey Stein (International Center of Photography, and School of Visual Arts) has a passion for Italy and has visited and worked there frequently over the past decade. Apart from a couple of brief essays in facing pages of... (read more)

Your price: $21.00
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


Italia
Italia
by Edmund Howard
Publisher Comments
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)

List Price $40.00
Your price: $15.95
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


A Valley in Italy
A Valley in Italy
by Lisa St Aubin De Teran
Publisher Comments
Of all the romantic obsessions in novelist Lisa St Aubin de Teran's life, the search for a castle occupied her the longest--until she saw the magnificent Villa Orsola deep in the Umbrian hills. Only after eagerly signing the ownership papers did she and... (read more)

List Price $14.99
Your price: $5.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


A Tuscan Childhood
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: $3.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Piazza: Italy's Heart and Soul
Piazza: Italy's Heart and Soul
by Joe Bauwens and Marybeth Flower
Publisher Comments
Immerse yourself in the living story of the piazza. Celebrate its everyday patterns, festivals, reenactments of medieval events, ancient athletic contests, grand processions, antique fairs, and more. These stunning images capture the warmth, joy, and... (read more)

Your price: $35.00
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


Desiring Italy: Women Writers Celebrate the Passions of a Country and Culture
Desiring Italy: Women Writers Celebrate the Passions of a Country and Culture
by Susan Cahill
Publisher Comments
Under the spell of la dolce vita... For centuries Italy has been many things to many people. In this brilliant anthology and traveler's companion, twenty-eight first-rate women writers reveal why the land that is the heart and soul of European... (read more)

List Price $16.00
Your price: $5.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Midnight in Sicily
Midnight in Sicily
by Peter Robb
Publisher Comments
In late 1995 Giulio Andreotti, seven-time prime minister of Italy and once called "the finest political mind in Europe," went on trial both for murder and for his association with the Sicilian Mafia. With hundreds of witnesses still to be called, there... (read more)

List Price $14.95
Your price: $7.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Armed Struggle in Italy 1976-78: A Chronology
Armed Struggle in Italy 1976-78: A Chronology
by Elephant Editions
Publisher Comments
An incredible anthology. Not only was there an amazing amount of armed actions in Italy at this time, but those chronicled here (and there are 100s of them) were those carried out by autonomous/anarchist groups/affinity groups, not by the Red Brigades... (read more)

List Price $5.95
Your price: $3.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici
Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici
by Miles Unger
Publisher Comments
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)

List Price $18.00
Your price: $9.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Donatello Among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy
Donatello Among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy
by Claudia Lazzaro
Publisher Comments
Focuses on the appropriation of visual elements of the classical, medieval, and Renaissance past in Mussolini's Italy.... (read more)

List Price $37.25
Your price: $12.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
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 $22.95
Your price: $2.75
Used - Book Club Paperback

add to wish list


Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528
Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528
by Piero Gleijeses
Publisher Comments
Set in the middle of the Italian Riviera, Genoa is perhaps best known as the birthplace of Christopher Columbus. But Genoa was also one of medieval Europe's major centers of trade and commerce. In Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528, Steven Epstein has... (read more)

List Price $45.50
Your price: $23.00
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


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
Publisher Comments
In the waning days of Venices glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the citys oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful, illegitimate daughter... (read more)

List Price $15.95
Your price: $5.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Gomorrah: Italy's Other Mafia (UK Edition)
Gomorrah: Italy's Other Mafia (UK Edition)
by Roberto Saviano
Publisher Comments
A dangerous, politically explosive international literary sensation. Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller, and has to date sold over 1 million copies in Italy alone, where it continues to... (read more)

Your price: $8.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


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
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: $8.95
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


1 3 4 5 ... 11 next»


Browse the entire aisle:
by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
There are 202 books in this aisle.

This way to more aisles in Italy
spacer
spacer
  • back to top
Follow us on...




Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.