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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 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 Jane Schneider Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-330) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by J H Plumb Publisher Comments Spanning an age that witnessed great achievements in the arts and sciences, this definitive overview of the Italian Renaissance will both captivate ordinary readers and challenge specialists. Dr. Plumb's impressive and provocative narrative is... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Guido Ruggiero Review "Extremely welcome for its systematic attempt to squeeze information about changing attitudes to sexuality from the judicial records."--The London Review of Books "As full a picture as can be constructed from the scraps of legal and other documents which... (read more) Your price $24.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jonathan White Publisher Comments This study of dynamic continuities, as well as crises and fissures in Italian culture, takes an interdisciplinary approach. Its coverage extends to literature, art history, opera, film, sexuality, urbanism, the mafia, and population movements of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sarah Quill Publisher Comments This beautiful volume offers an illustrated guide to "The Stones of Venice, linking Ruskin's descriptions of individual buildings with a contemporary photographic record of the architecture and sculpture as it is seen today. It excludes interiors and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Gilbert Publisher Comments Since 1992, Italy has been rocked by the disintegration of its traditional ruling elite as dozens of leading politicians have been accused of corruption, extortion, and Mafia ties. The two linchpins of the former governing coalition, the Christian... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $8.95 (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 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 Claudio G Segre Publisher Comments Pioneering aviator, blackshirt leader, colonial governor, confidante and heir-apparent to Benito Mussolini, the dashing and charismatic Italo Balbo exemplified the ideals of Fascist Italy during the 1920s and 30s. He earned national notoriety after World... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $12.50 (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 Patrick Mccarthy Publisher Comments In the first full length English language account of the Clean Hands Crisis of the Italian government, Patrick McCarthy finds the roots of Berlusconis rise and fall in the practices of clientalism, the machinations of the Mafia, the corporate direction... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Depiro
Publisher Comments A witty, erudite celebration of fifty great Italian cultural achievements that have significantly influenced Western civilization from the authors of "What Are the Seven Wonders of the World? <BR>"Sprezzatura," or the art of effortless mastery, was... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kelley Hurst Publisher Comments Opening up their ancestral homes, the owners of these preserved and fully-functional estates now offer you a key to the hidden splendors of the Italian countryside. A detailed appendix provides all the practical information you'll need for planning your... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Simon Marsden Publisher Comments To many people, Venice is quite simply the most beautiful city in the world. It is a city of many contradictions—something grand but faded, magical yet ghostly, beautiful but with a dark, sinister undercurrent running through its canals. Featuring... (read more) Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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