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by John K Brackett  Publisher Comments A study of Florentine criminal justice under the reign of the first three Medici grand dukes.... (read more)  List Price $65.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Nicholas Shrady Publisher Comments In the tradition of "Brunelleschi's Dome," comes a lively and richly informative chronicle of one of the world's most famous--and famously flawed--architectural and cultural icons, all presented in an innovative and striking format. Illustrations.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Denis Mack Smith Publisher Comments This work measures the true impact of Mussolini on his follower, Hitler and its consequences for both fascism and communism in 20th century history. 21 photos. Smith charts the career of the man who altered his choice of violence to a talent of deceit.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by France Guicciardini Review Guicciardini's objectivity is awesome . . . the combination of tumultuous events and the cold lunar language he uses to describe them gives his history its unique and incomparable cachet.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anton Gill Publisher Comments British Praise for "Il Gigante: "There is certainly nothing rushed about this excellent account of the world's greatest sculptor... Through Gill's sensitive and accessible reading of the David in particular we can perhaps feel a little closer to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $15.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by J R Hale Publisher Comments The enduring fascination of the Medici springs from their ability--as individuals and as a family--to control the government of Florence, first as a quasi-democracy and finally through inheritance. Based on the latest research, this perceptive study, by... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gene Brucker Publisher Comments In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the city of Florence experienced the most creative period in her entire history. This book is an in-depth analysis of that dynamic community, focusing primarily on the years 1380-1450 in an examination of the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Denys Hay Publisher Comments This book provides a clear picture of what the Renaissance was, what it meant and how it spread. His approach is historical, and he shows the Renaissance as a growing and changing series of attitudes and ideas, rooted firmly in the general history of the... (read more) Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Jeffrie Martin Publisher Comments Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Cesare Cunaccia Publisher Comments "It certainly is not easy to add anything to that grand, opulent, and vibrant book that is Naples. More than a city, Naples is a universe of opposites: it is a place blessed with great beauty and breathtaking landscapes, but it is equally dark and grungy,... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $29.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tara Koellhoffer Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-244) and index.... (read more) List Price $33.70 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) 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 "ingenious" exploration of the legacy of Italian Fascism ("The New Yorker") <BR>Bullet-ridden, spat on, strung up in a Milan square: this was the fate of Il Duce, as reviled... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James H S Mcgregor Publisher Comments The history of Venice is told in this narrative that follows a chronological and geographical organization so that the city's growth and evolution can be traced chapter by chapter and readers can explore it district by district on foot and by boat.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $14.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Gooch Publisher Comments This is the first authoritative study of the Italian armed forces and the relationship between the military and foreign policies of Fascist Italy from Mussolini's rise to power in 1922 to the catastrophic defeat of 1940. Using extensive new research... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michele K Spike Publisher Comments This is a fast-paced and colorful exploration of the life of Matilda of Canossa (c. 10461115), the woman who loved a pope and was loved by him, successfully defied the Holy Roman Emperor, and changed the map of Europe. A new kind of history, this... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeffrey Becom Publisher Comments The sun-splashed countries of the Mediterranean are shown as they have never been seen before. Now in paperback.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by R W B Lewis Book News Annotation A delightfully personal and learned look at the Tuscan city of Florence, encompassing its cultural, civic and artistic legacy from the Middle Ages to the present. Lewis discusses Florence's designs and principal designers, special sites and... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Ginsborg Publisher Comments Ginsborg discusses the role of family in Italian society and argues that it plays a vital role in the country's politics and business. Written by a Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence this title should prove... (read more) Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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