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Memoirs: Marie Mancini and Hortense Mancini by Marie Mancini
RRP: $36.12$35.33The memoirs of Hortense (1646-99) and Marie (1639-1715) Mancini, nieces of the powerful Cardinal Mazarin and members of the court of Louis XIV, represent the earliest examples in France of memoirs published by women under their own names during their... -
Who Stole the Secret to the Industrial Revolution?: The Real Story behind Richard Arkwright and the Water Frame by Glynis Cooper
RRP: $25.80$18.43English schoolchildren are taught that Sir Richard Arkwright invented the water-frame and was the father of the Industrial Revolution and the factory system.' That is simply not true. The water-powered spinning frame and the modern factory system' were... -
Italian Fascism: Its Origins and Development, Third Edition by Alexander J. De Grand
RRP: $30.95$26.88On October 29, 1922, when Benito Mussolini completed the March on Rome and was appointed prime minister of Italy, the Fascist regime began in triumph. It ended some twenty-two years later with the execution of Mussolini and the collapse of the... -
Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo by Peter T. Schneider
RRP: $38.70$30.56Reversible Destiny traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo,... -
Making the Fascist Self: The Political Culture of Interwar Italy by Mabel Berezin
RRP: $39.99$35.29In her examination of the culture of Italian fascism, Mabel Berezin focuses on how Mussolini's regime consciously constructed a nonliberal public sphere to support its political aims. Fascism stresses form over content, she believes, and the regime tried... -
Bugle Call to Freedom: The PoW Escape from Camp PG 49 Fontanellato 1943 by Marco Minardi 9780957610217
RRP: $12.90$9.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957610217Author Marco MinardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Monte San Martino TrustPublisher Monte San Martino Trust -
The Golden Horde – Revolutionary Italy, 1960–1977 by Nanni Balestrini 9781803091938
RRP: $36.11$35.32The Golden Horde is a definitive work on the Italian revolutionary movements of the 1960s and ’70s. An anthology of texts and fragments woven together with an original commentary, The Golden Horde widens our understanding of the full complexity and... -
Rome: An Empire's Story by Greg Woolf
RRP: $28.37$20.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190687458Author Greg WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm)... -
Behind the Picture: Art and Evidence in the Italian Renaissance by Mr Martin Kemp 9780300082814
$52.36The Roman author Pliny tells the story - well known in the Renaissance - of the famous Greek painter Apelles hiding behind one of his pictures to overhear the comments of spectators. Martin Kemp takes this motif as an effective point of entry into the... -
The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance by Paul Strathern
RRP: $37.35$23.28A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning... -
Brilliant Bodies: Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy by Timothy McCall
RRP: $118.62$105.86Italian court culture of the fifteenth century was a golden age, gleaming with dazzling princes, splendid surfaces, and luminous images that separated the lords from the (literally) lackluster masses. In Brilliant Bodies, Timothy McCall describes and... -
History of the Mafia by Salvatore Lupo 9780231131353
RRP: $28.38$22.39When we think of the Italian Mafia, we think of Marlon Brando, Tony Soprano, and the Corleones--iconic actors and characters who give shady dealings a mythical pop presence. Yet these sensational depictions take us only so far. The true story of the... -
Sicily: Three Thousand Years of Human History by Sandra Benjamin
RRP: $38.69$25.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586421311Author Sandra BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth PressWeight(grams) 682g -
Dante in Love by A. N. Wilson
RRP: $12.89$8.64With a biographer's eye for detail and a novelist's comprehension of the creative process, A. N. Wilson paints a masterful portrait of Dante Alighieri and unlocks one of the seminal works of literature for a new generation of readers.In Dante in Love, A... -
The Economy of Renaissance Florence by Richard A. Goldthwaite
RRP: $42.57$39.37Richard A. Goldthwaite, a leading economic historian of the Italian Renaissance, has spent his career studying the Florentine economy. In this magisterial work, Goldthwaite brings together a lifetime of research and insight on the subject, clarifying and... -
Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528 by Steven A. Epstein 9780807849927
RRP: $70.95$65.22In this comprehensive history of Genoa, Steven Epstein traces the city's transformation from an obscure port into the capital of a small but thriving republic with an extensive overseas empire. His story bridges six centuries of medieval Renaissance... -
Italy 1530-1630 by Eric Cochrane 9780582491441
RRP: $70.94$68.22This book covers one of the more obscure periods of Italian history. What we know of it is presented almost always pejoratively: an unrelieved tale of political absolution, rural refeudalisation, economic crisis, religious repression and cultural decline... -
Italy in the Central Middle Ages by David Abulafia 9780199247042
$49.69The eleventh to the early fourteenth centuries saw a great transformation in the political, cultural and economic life of the Italian peninsula, marked by the rise of the autonomous city-states in the north and centre, the expansion of international... -
Books for Burning: Between Civil War and Democracy in 1970's Italy by Antonio Negri 9781844670345
$35.93Long before Antonio Negri became famous around the world for his groundbreaking volume Empire, he was infamous across Europe for the incendiary writings contained in this book. Books for Burning consists of five pamphlets that Negri wrote between 1971... -
Niccolo Di Lorenzo Della Magna and the Social World of Florentine Printing, Ca. 1470-1493 by Lorenz Boeninger
RRP: $57.99$46.34A new history of one of the foremost printers of the Renaissance explores how the Age of Print came to Italy.Lorenz Boeninger offers a fresh history of the birth of print in Italy through the story of one of its most important figures, Niccolo di Lorenzo... -
The Flower of Battle: MS M 383 by Michael Chidester 9781953683144
RRP: $45.14$41.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953683144Author Michael ChidesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Hema BookshelfPublisher Hema BookshelfWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 279mm *... -
Mussolini Also Did a Lot of Good: The Spread of Historical Amnesia by John Irving
RRP: $25.74$22.88A 2019 Italian BestsellerSurgically, but with wit, Francesco Filippi demolishes each and every myth that has taken root about Mussolini and fascism in an uplifting handbook for political and intellectual self-defense. No stones are left unturned,... -
Bersaglieri: The Devil's Griffins-A Visual History of Italy's Elite Plumed Warriors by Paul Garson 9781781557556
RRP: $38.70$33.26Military historians have often regarded the roll of the Italian military as somewhat "bi-polar." During the First World War, Italy sided with the Allies including Britain, France, Russia and the U.S. against Germany and the Central Powers. During the... -
The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy by Abigail Brundin 9780198816553
RRP: $63.20$63.09The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy explores the rich devotional life of the Italian household between 1450 and 1600. Rejecting the enduring stereotype of the Renaissance as a secular age, this interdisciplinary study reveals the home to have been an... -
Italy in the Nineteenth Century: 1796-1900 by John A. Davis 9780198731276
RRP: $48.36$40.31The Short Oxford History of Italy series, in seven volumes, will offer a complete History of Italy from the early middle ages to the present and, in each period, will present the most recent historical perspectives on Italian history. This means setting... -
Influences: Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance by Mary Quinlan-McGrath
RRP: $103.20$99.34Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light... -
Italian Cultural Studies: An Introduction by David Forgacs 9780198715092
$66.28This is an up-to-date, illustrated introduction to the study of modern Italian culture containing nineteen chapters by specialists in the field of language, politics, religious, ethnic, and gender identities, the mass media, cultural policy, and stars. ... -
In the Abruzzi: Travels in Southern Italy at the Turn of the 20th Century; The History, Culture and Folklore by Anne MacDonnell 9781789873443
RRP: $15.45$15.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789873443Author Anne MacDonnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
The Story of the Giro D'Italia: A Year-By-Year History of the Tour of Italy, Volume Two: 1971-2011 by Bill McGann 9780984311798
RRP: $15.42$14.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984311798Author Bill McGannFormat PaperbackImprint McGann Publishing LLCPublisher McGann Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 463g -
Modern Italy: A Political History by Denis Mack Smith 9780300043426
$57.12With Count Camillo Cavour's proclamation of a united Italian kingdom in 1861, the history of modern Italy began. But for this country, once at the centre of western culture and now promising to become a prosperous, liberal new European power, this late... -
A Taste of Naples: Neapolitan Culture, Cuisine, and Cooking by Marlena Spieler 9781442251250
RRP: $47.73$42.65In other places, it might seem trite or cliche to say that love is an essential component of cooking, food, and dining. But in the shadow of a still-fuming Vesuvio, the love of everyday life is palpable in Naples: that passion for life is the spirit that... -
The Venice Ghetto: A Memory Space that Travels by Chiara Camarda
RRP: $32.19$29.13The Venice Ghetto was founded in 1516 by the Venetian government as a segregated area of the city in which Jews were compelled to live. The world's first ghetto and the origin of the English word, the term simultaneously works to mark specific places and... -
Carlo Sigonio: The Changing World of the Late Renaissance by William McCuaig
RRP: $67.08$52.41William McCuaig explores the intellectual turbulence of the late Italian Renaissance through a full examination of the work of one scholar--the humanist Carlo Sigonio (1523-84), whose insistence on critical methods for reconstructing the past... -
The Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy by Derek Beales 9780582369580
RRP: $61.91$59.31This book introduces the reader to the relationship between the Italian national movement, achieved by the Risorgimento, and the Italian unification in 1860. These themes are discussed in detail and related to the broader European theatre. Covering the... -
Good Italy, Bad Italy: Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future by Bill Emmott
RRP: $21.92$21.49An original analysis of the war between the two opposing sides of Italy's national character Not long ago Italy was Europe's highly touted emerging economy, a society that blended dynamism and super-fast growth with a lifestyle that was the envy of all... -
Heinemann History Study Units: Student Book. The Italian Renaissance by Peter Mantin
$31.01Focusing on the Italian Renaissance, this is one of a history series, modular in structure, which offers teachers the flexibility to design their own scheme of work at Key Stage 3 of the National Curriculum. Each book covers all the core study units and... -
Rome - City in Terror: The Nazi Occupation 1943-44 by Victor Failmezger
RRP: $21.92$16.36This is the compelling story of an Eternal City brought low, of the terror and hardship of occupation, and of the disparate army of partisan fighters, displaced aristocrats, Vatican priests, Allied POWs and ordinary citizens who battled for the... -
Pietro Bembo: History of Venice: v. 1: Books I-IV by Robert W. Ulery, Jr.
RRP: $38.64$30.52Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was the most celebrated Latin stylist of his day and was widely admired for his writings in Italian as well. His early dialogue on the subject of love greatly... -
Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici by Miles J Unger
RRP: $27.09$18.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743254359Author Miles J. UngerFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food by John Dickie 9780743278072
$19.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743278072Author John DickieFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 563gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...