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by John Berendt  
Powells.com 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 $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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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 $15.00 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Caroline Murphy Publisher Comments In Murder of a Medici Princess, Caroline Murphy illuminates the brilliant life and tragic death of Isabella de Medici, one of the brightest stars in the dazzling world of Renaissance Italy, the daughter of Duke Cosimo I, ruler of Florence and Tuscany... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert J Hutchinson Publisher Comments Lighthearted and altogether fascinating, When in Rome is a delightful backstairs tour of one of the world's most mysterious and eccentric cities. With his wife and three young sons, Robert Hutchinson moved to Rome shortly before his thirty-ninth birthday,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Hofmann Publisher Comments No other people over so long a history have shown a greater knack for survival than the Italians. In this wryly affectionate book, Hofmann reveals his adopted countrymen in all their glorious paradoxes, capturing their national essence as no other book... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lawrence Venuti Publisher Comments Italy’s rising literary stars join some of its best-known writers — including Nobel-laureate Luigi Pirandello, Natalia Ginzburg, Alberto Moravia, and Antonio Tabucchi — to take the reader on a panoramic tour of both city and countryside,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Luigi Barzini Publisher Comments In this consummate portrait of the Italian people, bestselling author, publisher, journalist, and politician Luigi Barzini delves deeply into the Italian national character, discovering both its great qualities and its imperfections. Barzini is... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven Brooke Publisher Comments Following the generations of view painters who recorded Rome for their time, Steven Brooke's collection of seductive and timeless images provides an extraordinary documentation of Rome in the late twentieth-century. Steven Brooke believes in the myth of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by George M Trevelyan Publisher Comments The third and final volume of the trilogy covers Garibaldi's role during this decisive year, which finally ended with his conquest of Sicily and Naples, and his acknowledgement of Victor Emmanuel of Piedmont-Sardinia as king of an Italy united once and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $13.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ross King
Powells.com 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... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrea Di Robilant Publisher Comments In the waning days of Venice’s glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the city’s oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Margaret Rosenthal Publisher Comments The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onesta—the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by R W B Lewis Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book In this deeply personal and learned labor of love, R.W.B. Lewis provides a new look at the glories of Florence, the smallish Tuscan city which has been a prime source for modern Western culture and which has also been his... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ross King
Publisher Comments Anyone alive in Florence on August 19, 1418, would have understood the significance of the competition announced that day concerning the city’s magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, already under construction for more than a century... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Frances Mayes Synopsis Buying a villa in the spectacular Italian countryside is a wonderful fantasy -- even if 17 rooms and a garden in need of immediate loving care are included in the asking price. Frances Mayes -- gourmet cook, widely published travel writer, and poet... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Judith Martin and Eric Denker Publisher Comments The definitive manual for the hopeless Venetophile. Love of Venice can strike anyone, not just romantic wusses. Among the toughies with serious cases were Lord Byron, Richard Wagner, Ezra Pound, and Ernest Hemingway. Symptoms include: Wishing that... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Vicki Goldberg Synopsis La Strada captures the life and drama of Italy's streets from World War II through the 1970s. Its exquisite photographs, made by some of the most deeply skilled artists of the mid-twentieth century, are imbued with the essence of Neo-Realism, the... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $40.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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