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The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany (Most Beautiful Villages) by James Bentley Publisher Comments 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) List Price $40.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 $16.99 Your price: $8.50 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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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 $17.00 Your price: $2.96 Used - Trade Paper
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A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics, 1943-1988 by Paul Ginsborg Publisher Comments 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) List Price $28.00 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: $3.50 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 $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Venetian Affair by Andrea Di Robilant Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-[300]) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.50 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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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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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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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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Amalia's Tale: A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice by David I Kertzer Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 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... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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