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Venetian Curiosities by Donna Leon Synopsis In a city as ancient as Venice, myths and legends passed down from generation to generation record more than just love or murder. They are the storehouse of a citys mores, emblems of its identity. In an introduction and seven essays, Leon offers... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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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: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Oxford Paperbacks) by Michael Baxandall Publisher Comments Serving as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of pictures in a given historical period, this new edition to Baxandall's pre-eminent scholarly volume examines early... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $0.95 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 andlt;iandgt;Magnificoandlt;/iandgt; 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... (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 - Hardcover
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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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Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528 by Steven Epstein 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 $47.75 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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Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy by Christopher Duggan Publisher Comments Today Mussolini is remembered as a hated dictator who, along with Hitler and Stalin, ushered in an era of totalitarian repression unsurpassed in human history. But how was he viewed by ordinary Italians during his lifetime? In Fascist Voices, Christopher... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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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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Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History (Vintage) by Robert Hughes Publisher Comments From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome—as city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization, two subjects about... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Corruption :ethics and power in Florence, 1600-1770 by Jean Claude Waquet Publisher Comments In this elegant and original book, Jean-Claude Waquet examines the problem of corruption in early modern Europe. Defining corruption to include both embezzlement of public funds by officials and their taking presents in return for favors rendered, he... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price: $6.95 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: $6.95 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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The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples by Shirley Hazzard Publisher Comments Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city. The Ancient Shore collects the best of Hazzards writings on Naples,... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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