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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 $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 $22.95 Your price: $2.75 Used - Book Club Paperback
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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
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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 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
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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
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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: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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