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The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany (Most Beautiful Villages)
The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany (Most Beautiful Villages)
by James Bentley
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There are vineyards producing the finest wine, and miles of wild mountain scenery; almost any view will take in other villages, clustering around the upper reaches of some hill or the russet roofs of a fortified town deep in a valley. Tuscany has its... (read more)

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The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
by Christopher Hibbert
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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)

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

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Movimento: Glimpses of Italian Street Life
Movimento: Glimpses of Italian Street Life
by Harvey Stein
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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)

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The City of Falling Angels
The City of Falling Angels
by John Berendt
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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)

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A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics, 1943-1988
A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics, 1943-1988
by Paul Ginsborg
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From a war-torn and poverty-stricken country, regional and predominantly agrarian, to the success story of recent years, Italy has witnessed the most profound transformation--economic, social and demographic--in its entire history. Yet the other... (read more)

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A Tuscan Childhood
A Tuscan Childhood
by Kinta Beevor
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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)

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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
by Ross King
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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)

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A Venetian Affair
A Venetian Affair
by Andrea Di Robilant
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-[300]) and index.... (read more)

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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
by Frances Mayes
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Frances Mayes—widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer—opens the door to a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. In evocative language, she brings the reader... (read more)

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Midnight in Sicily
Midnight in Sicily
by Peter Robb
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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)

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Armed Struggle in Italy 1976-78: A Chronology
Armed Struggle in Italy 1976-78: A Chronology
by Elephant Editions
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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)

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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
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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)

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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
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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The Stones of Florence
The Stones of Florence
by Mary Mccarthy
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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)

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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
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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)

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Gomorrah: Italy's Other Mafia (UK Edition)
Gomorrah: Italy's Other Mafia (UK Edition)
by Roberto Saviano
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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)

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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
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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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Amalia's Tale: A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice
Amalia's Tale: A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice
by David I Kertzer
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This quintessential David-and-Goliath saga tells the story of a wholly unexpected triumph of the poor against the rich and of a crusading city attorney who fought on behalf of an impoverished peasant. Amalia Bagnacavalli, an illiterate young peasant from... (read more)

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Italia: Portrait of a Country Throughout 60 Years of Photography
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... (read more)

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