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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 Paul Strand Publisher Comments "Wherever I happened to be," wrote Paul Strand, "I sought the signs of a long partnership that give each place its special quality and create the profiles of its people. . . . " In 1953 the renowned American photographer Paul Strand, who was then living... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $28.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Ginsborg Synopsis A social and political analysis of the Italian Peninsula since the fall of Mussolini. Achievements and political parties are described as well as matters concerning family life and the declining role of the Catholic Church.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David I Kertzer Publisher Comments Bologna: nightfall, June 1858. A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara. Two officers of the Inquisition burst inside and seize Mortara's six-year-old son, Edgardo. The reason for his abduction: the boy had been secretly "baptized"... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Fabio Bourbon Publisher Comments Hundreds of full-color photographs bring to life the spectacular ruins of Roman civilization, the sumptuous art of Renaissance palaces, and the rugged Alpine ranges of Italy. Young armchair travelers will glide through the canals of Venice, feel the... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Maria Bellonci Publisher Comments Although Lucrezia Borgia was a daughter of Pope Alexander VI and chiefly remembered as a raven-haired poisoner, Bellonci depicts a passionate woman moving uncertainly through the papal court and the intrigues, ambitions, and political chicanery that... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vicki Goldberg Publisher Comments 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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by Alain Buisine Publisher Comments This rich and fascinating celebration of Venice presents a series of unconventional impressions of the heart of Venice and its dazzling spectrum of people. With a wealth of eyewitness accounts and comments by its famous visitors, including Joseph Brodsky,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Leoluca Orlando Publisher Comments Fighting the Mafia is Leoluca Orlando's dramatic tale of witness and survival, of his effort to expose Mafia infiltration of the highest levels of Italy's national politics, and of the movement he helped build-in the schools and churches, and at the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $3.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Theresa Maggio Publisher Comments In this sparkling book, Theresa Maggio takes us on a journey in search of Sicily's most remote and least explored mountain towns. Using her grandparent's ancestral village of Santa Margherita Belice as her base camp, she pores over old maps to plot her... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Robb Publisher Comments From the author of M and A Death in Brazil comes Midnight in Sicily. South of mainland Italy lies the island of Sicily, home to an ancient culture that — with its stark landscapes, glorious coastlines, and extraordinary treasure troves of art... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alexander Stille Synopsis Stille uses the incredible and appallingly entertaining story of Silvio Berlusconi's rise to power to paint a portrait of Italy today that's invaluable for anyone who wants to understand that country or put the United State's problems in perspective.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Christina Vella Publisher Comments On a hot summer day in Italy in 1902, the brutally stabbed body of Count Francesco Bonmartini was discovered, by means of its decomposing stench, inside his locked apartment. He was a typical Italian provincial aristocrat in all but one way: he had... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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 Barbara Gr Harrison Publisher Comments "Italian Days" is one of the richest and most absorbing travel books written--a journey that traverses the Italian peninsula and immerses readers in a culture which provides the reader with a definition of the good life. "Harrison's wonderful journal... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sergio Luzzatto Publisher Comments A brilliant young historian follows the odyssey of Mussolini's body in an original exploration of the history and legacy of Italian Fascism Bullet-ridden, spat on, butchered bloody: this was the fate of Il Duce, strung up beside his dead mistress in a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Patricia Fort Brown Publisher Comments Venice was unique among major Italian cities in having no classical past of its own. As such, it experienced the Renaissance in a manner quite different from that of Florence or Rome. In this pathbreaking book, Patricia Fortini Brown focuses on Venice's... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $50.00 (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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