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by Steven Brooke  Publisher Comments An ideal companion to traditional tour guides with 90 illus.... (read more)  List Price $25.00 Your price $5.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Romano Mussolini Publisher Comments A last surviving child of Benito Mussolini shares insights into his father's life, describing such topics as Il Duce's relationship with his family and mistresses, beliefs about education and the arts, partnership with Adolf Hitler, and anticipation of... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Julius Norwich Publisher Comments John Julius Norwich's A History of Venice has been dubbed "indispensable" by none other than Jan Morris. Now, in his second book on the city once known as La Serenissima, Norwich advances the story in this elegant chronicle of a hundred years of Venice's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Kauffman Publisher Comments Now available from Chronicle Books, this classic volume is a glorious tribute to one of the most beautiful regions in the world. Thousands of Americans visit Tuscany and Umbria each year, and the timeless charms of the hill towns of northern Italy are... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Francesco Venturi Publisher Comments Behind the heroic, historicfacades of Rome lies an intimate world that is rarely seen by outsiders. Private Rome offers a colorful insider's view of the city's vibrant inner sanctums. Here are studios of artists and designers; classical, baroque, and... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ann Field Publisher Comments Venice can be a dangerous place for a man's emotions--particularly at Christmas, particularly if he's the grief-stricken art historian John Ruskin. In 1876, a year after the death of his clandestine love, Rose La Touche, Ruskin arrived in the city of... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $3.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by L St Aubin De Teran Publisher Comments Of all the romantic obsessions in novelist Lisa St Aubin de Teran's life, the search for a castle occupied her the longest--until she saw the magnificent Villa Orsola deep in the Umbrian hills. Only after eagerly signing the ownership papers did she and... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ray Moseley Publisher Comments Based on the diaries of Mussolini's daughter Edda, this is the first biography in English about Mussolini's son-in-law, who was found guilty of treason and shot after he joined with dissident Fascists to oust Mussolini. 26 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Aldo Zargani Publisher Comments In an extraordinary literary debut, Aldo Zargani reconstructs the lost world of his Jewish childhood during the perilous years 1938-45 when he and his family fled from Fascists and Nazis in northern Italy. His haunting memoir acquires a cinematic... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Luciano Garibaldi Publisher Comments An investigation into Mussolini's secret execution and the many theories about what really happened during the fateful hours after he was taken prisoner by Italian partisans near Como. Did the British secret service actually have something to do with... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Helen Barolini Publisher Comments aOur lives are Swiss, a Emily Dickinson wrote in 1859, aSo stillaso cool.a But over the Alps, aItaly stands the other side.a For Dickinson, as for many other writers and artists, Italy has been the land of light, a seductive source of invention... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Iris Origo Publisher Comments Available again in this new edition, Origo's memoir tells the story of four friends, each of whom made various life sacrifices in the fight for non fascist Italy.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger D Masters Publisher Comments Few people know that Leonardo da Vinci and Niccol Machiavelli crossed paths when Leonardo worked -- ostensibly as an engineer, possibly as a spy -- in Cesare Borgia's court and Machiavelli was Florence's ambassador there. Soon thereafter, they formed a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph Lapalombara Publisher Comments In this book, the foremost expert on the Italian political system takes a lively look at the apparent chaos-and surprising success-of Italian democracy. "A lively, literate look at Italy-a view from the outside that is really a view from the inside... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Garry Wills Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p.[373]-397) and index.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carlo Cattaneo Book News Annotation While perhaps overshadowed by Giuseppi Mazzini, Carlo Cattaneo (1801-1869) was nevertheless a leading figure in the Italian Risorgimento whose writings spanned the fields of economics, history, politics, philosophy, and law. Originally published in... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ruth Ben Ghiat Publisher Comments In contrast to the widely held view that Italian fascism did not have a coherent program, Ben-Ghiat argues that the political situation was used as "an opportunity to create a peculiarly Italian and fascist mass culture (celebrating) order, hierarchy... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (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 Daniel Huguenin Synopsis A journey through the mysteries and beauty created in the world's most fascinating city.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David G Horn Publisher Comments Using as his example post-World War I Italy and the government's interest in the size, growth rate, and "vitality" of its national population, David Horn suggests a genealogy for our present understanding of procreation as a site for technological... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $5.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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