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by Gino Moliterno  Publisher Comments This rigorously compiled A-Z volume offers rich, readable coverage of the diverse forms of post-1945 Italian culture. With over 900 entries by international contributors, this volume is genuinely interdisciplinary in character, treating traditional... (read more)  List Price $30.00 Your price $27.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Susan M Dixon Synopsis This book examines the Accademia degli Arcadi in its heyday, a little known phenomenon in Italian history in the first part of the eighteenth century. The Roman academy aimed for a peninsula-wide cultural renewal induced by literary reform. Operating... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $29.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alice Powers Publisher Comments E.M. Forster observed, "One does not come to Italy for niceness. One comes for life". And there is life abounding in this rhapsodic, witty, and lushly atmospheric anthology, in which forty-one literary travelers train their sensibilities on various... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Evans Publisher Comments Teach Yourself History Each title in the history category of Teach Yourself makes complex events accessible when you're seeking an alternative to dry, academic texts. Incorporating gripping personal stories, our Teach Yourself History Books transform... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Guido Alberto Rossi Publisher Comments This spectacular photographic tour offers an opportunity that few visitors to Italy ever have: the chance to see this beautiful land as a sweeping whole, from the cool northern Alps to the sunny southern islands, from the dappled inland forests to the... (read more) Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Kinta Beevor Publisher Comments The enchantments of the Tuscan countryside are captured in this memoir of the idyllic Bohemian life the author shared with her family in their Italian castle in the years between the two world wars. When Kinta Beevor was five years old, her father, the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Follain Publisher Comments In July 1943, the Allies launched their first assault against Hitler's "Fortress Europe" by invading Sicily. "Mussolini's Island" portrays the full horror and glory, the fear and the foul-ups of one of the least known but most dramatic and controversial... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Denis Mack Smith Publisher Comments This book by one of the most distinguished historians of Italy is the first modern biography in English of Giuseppe Mazzini, one of the leading figures in the political and intellectual world of mid-nineteenth-century Europe. Denis Mack Smith reexamines... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $10.95 (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 $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jane Schneider Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-330) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.71 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert J Hutchinson Publisher Comments When in Rome is a backstairs tour of one of the world's most mysterious and eccentric cities. Hutchinson introduces the varied and colorful individuals who live and work in the Vatican. In the process, he explores the mysterious orders of medieval... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rob Wagner-pacifici Publisher Comments On March 16, 1978, the former prime minister of Italy, Aldo Moro, was kidnapped by the Red Brigades, and what followed--the fifty-five days of captivity that resulted in Moro's murder--constitutes one of the most striking social dramas of the twentieth... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alexander Stille Publisher Comments In 1992 Italy was convulsed by two brazen Mafia assassinations of high-ranking officials. The latest "excellent cadavers" were Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the Sicilian magistrates who had been the Cosa Nostra's most implacable enemies. Yet in... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Lamb Publisher Comments An eminent historian provides a revisionist assessment of the Italian dictator's diplomatic blunders from pre-World War II Europe, focusing primarily on his relations with Britain and secondarily with France, until his fatal miscalculation in 1945... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $9.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Julius Norwich 
Publisher Comments The greatest living chronicler of Venetian history brings to life the city’s magical charm in a beautifully illustrated and captivating book. John Julius Norwich, the author of the acclaimed A History of Venice, traces the transformation of Venice... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Victoria De Grazia Publisher Comments "For the common reader as well as the professional one, Victoria de Grazia opens doors and sheds new light on a fascinating subject."--Mary Gordon, author of "The Other... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gabrielle Euvino Publisher Comments A beginner's/re-learner's look at the history and culture of Italy, as well as the Italian-American experience.<P>-- The success of The Complete Idiot's Guide "RM" to Jewish History and Culture and The Complete Idiot's Guide "RM" to Irish History... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by T C Pric Zimmermann Publisher Comments Best-known for his sweeping narrative Histories of His Own Times and for his portrait museum on Lake Como, the Italian bishop and historian Paolo Giovio (1486-1552) had contact with many of the protagonists of the great events he so vividly described... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $21.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by J H Plumb Publisher Comments A definitive overview of Renaissance-era Italy.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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