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Ransom Kidnapping in Italy: Crime, Memory, and Violence by Alessandra Montalbano 9781487546830
£67.61For over thirty years, modern Italy was plagued by ransom kidnappings perpetrated by bandits and organized crime syndicates. Nearly 700 men, women, and children were abducted from across the country between the late 1960s and the late 1990s, held hostage... -
Cultures of Plague: Medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. 9780199605095
RRP: £54.00£53.36Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its... -
Bonizo of Sutri: Portrait in a Landscape by John A. Dempsey 9781793608239
RRP: £96.00£84.38This book provides a groundbreaking reinterpretation of the life and career of the preeminent polemicist of the Bishop Bonizo of Sutri. Through a meticulous analysis of Bonizo’s literary works and contemporary reports about his activities, the author... -
Italian Rebels: Mazzini, Gramsci, and Giuliano by Raymond Angelo Belliotti 9781683933694
RRP: £89.00£77.95This interdisciplinary work philosophically analyzes the role of positive duties in moral theory, the efficacy of theocratic republicanism, viable strategies for political revolutions, the implications of an enduring Sicilian ethos, and the profits and... -
Magick City: Travellers to Rome from the Middle Ages to 1900, Volume II: The Eighteenth Century by Ronald Ridley 9781843681397
RRP: £22.95£15.14The most comprehensive anthology of writings by visitors to the eternal city ever compiled - witty, profound and endlessly entertaining. Drawing on French, Italian, Spanish, English, German, Scandinavian and American sources, Ronald Ridley has compiled... -
Church and State in Spanish Italy: Rituals and Legitimacy in the Kingdom of Naples by Celine Dauverd 9781108489850
RRP: £90.00£81.03In this study Celine Dauverd analyses the link between early modern imperialism and religion via the principle of 'good government'. She charts how the Spanish viceroys of southern Italy aimed to secure a new political order through their participation... -
The Justice of Venice: Authorities and Liberties in the Urban Economy, 1550-1700 by James E. Shaw 9780197263778
RRP: £60.00£59.62The rulers of Venice prided themselves on their unique brand of justice, which was a source of both ridicule and admiration for foreign commentators. Dr Shaw uncovers what this special justice meant for ordinary subjects by studying the history of one of... -
Supra-National Integration and Domestic Economic Growth: The United States and Italy in the Western Bloc Rearmament Programs 1945-1955 by Simone Selva 9783631605790
RRP: £37.70£33.26Through a detailed reconstruction of American rearmament programs to Italy from the birth of NATO through the implementation of multilateral military assistance during the early 1950s, this research challenges the idea that the end of reconstruction... -
Venice: A Cultural and Literary History by Martin Garrett
RRP: £12.99£9.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566563697Author Martin GarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 243Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams) 295g -
Italy and Its Invaders by Girolamo Arnaldi
RRP: £19.95£16.12From the earliest times, successive waves of foreign invaders have left their mark on Italy. Beginning with Germanic invasions that undermined the Roman Empire and culminating with the establishment of the modern nation, Girolamo Arnaldi explores the... -
World's Fairs Italian-Style: The Great Expositions in Turin and their Narratives, 1860-1915 by Cristina Della Coletta
RRP: £37.00£33.87According to conventional wisdom, Italy was not an influential participant in the nationalistic and imperialistic discourses that world's fairs produced in countries such as Great Britain, France, and the United States. In the late nineteenth and early... -
Building a Civil Society: Associations, Public Life, and the Origins of Modern Italy by Steven C. Soper
£77.01The most passionate advocates of Italy's unification in the nineteenth century possessed an almost limitless faith in the benefits of civic association. They also shared a common concern: once Italian unification was achieved and various freedoms were... -
Cardano: The Gambling Scholar by Oystein Ore
RRP: £40.00£36.07Cardano, next to Vesalius the greatest physician of his day, was also a devoted and skilled gambler who played for personal pleasure and profit. His mathematical genius enabled him to devise simple rules of probability for his own benefit and for his... -
Italian Women Writers: Gender and Everyday Life in Fiction and Journalism, 1870-1910 by Katharine Mitchell
£56.91Post-Unification Italy saw an unprecedented rise of the middle classes, an expansion in the production of print culture, and increased access to education and professions for women, particularly in urban areas. Although there was still widespread... -
The Pinocchio Effect: On Making Italians, 1860-1920 by Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg
RRP: £50.00£48.25Soon after the disparate states of the Italian peninsula unified in the 1860s to create a single nation, the nationalist Massimo D'Azeglio is said to have remarked, "We have made Italy, now we have to make Italians." "The Pinocchio Effect" draws on a... -
Love and Death in Renaissance Italy by T.V. Cohen
RRP: £39.00£38.03Gratuitous sex. Graphic violence. Lies, revenge, and murder. Before there was digital cable or reality television, there was Renaissance Italy and the courts in which Italian magistrates meted out justice to the vicious and the villainous, the scabrous... -
Prisoner of the Vatican: The Popes, the Kings, and Garibaldi's Rebels in the Struggle to Rule Modern Italy by Professor David I Kertzer 9780618619191
RRP: £21.99£16.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618619191Author Professor David I KertzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 222mm... -
Italy in the Early Middle Ages: 476-1000 by Cristina La Rocca 9780198700487
£44.76In this volume, ten leading international historians and archaeologists provide a fresh and dynamic picture of Italy's history from the end of the Roman Western Empire in 476 to the end of the tenth century. Recent archaeological findings, which have so... -
History of Venice: v. 2: Books V-VIII by Pietro Bembo
RRP: £29.95£23.66Pietro 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... -
Muslims of Medieval Italy by Alex Metcalfe
RRP: £28.99£27.31This significant new work focuses on the formation and fragmentation of an Arab-Muslim state and its society in Sicily and south Italy between 800 and 1300, which led to the formation of an enduring Muslim--Christian frontier during the age of the... -
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 9780679423089
RRP: £100.00£68.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679423089Author Edward GibbonFormat HardbackPage Count 1902Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 2092gDimensions(mm)... -
St. Peter's Bones: How the Relics of the First Pope Were Lost and Found . . . and Then Lost and Found Again by Thomas J. Craughwell 9780307985095
RRP: £12.56£9.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307985095Author Thomas J. CraughwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Three Rivers PressWeight(grams) 125g -
Mussolini and Italian Fascism by Giuseppe Finaldi 9781405812535
£34.82Fascism was one of the defining experiences of the European 20th Century. Within it many of the economic, political, social and cultural contradictions that had been brewing in the unprecedented transformation that European society underwent in the 19th... -
Sicily: A Cultural History by Joseph Farrell
RRP: £15.00£9.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623719579Author Joseph FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 193mm *... -
Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance: Revised Edition by Hans Baron
RRP: £60.00£47.10Hans Baron was one of the many great German emigre scholars whose work Princeton brought into the Anglo-American world. His Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance has provoked more discussion and inspired more research than any other twentieth-century... -
Death in Florence by Paul Strathern
RRP: £17.95£11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681772301Author Paul StrathernFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women's Food Work by Diana Garvin 9781487551575
RRP: £25.99£22.49Feeding Fascism explores how women negotiated the politics of Italy's Fascist regime in their daily lives and how they fed their families through agricultural and industrial labour. The book looks at women's experiences of Fascism by examining the... -
Documenting the Past in Medieval Puglia, 1130-1266 by Paul Oldfield 9780192870902
RRP: £82.00£74.45Documenting the Past in Medieval Puglia, 1130-1266 explores the production of historical memory in the region of Puglia after it was subsumed within the new Kingdom of Sicily in 1130. It assesses the significance of the apparent disappearance of more... -
Italy Since 1945 by Patrick McCarthy 9780198731696
RRP: £37.99£32.34The 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... -
Italian Neofascism: The Strategy of Tension and the Politics of Nonreconciliation by Anna Cento Bull 9780857451743
RRP: £23.95£19.49During the Cold War Italy witnessed the existence of an anomalous version of a civil conflict, defined as a 'creeping' or a 'low-intensity' civil war. Political violence escalated, including bomb attacks against civilians, starting with a massacre in... -
History of the Florentine People: v. 1: Books 1-4 by Leonardo Bruni
RRP: £29.95£24.06Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was... -
The History of Italy by Francesco Guicciardini
RRP: £45.00£35.32In 1537 Francesco Guicciardini, adviser and confidant to three popes, governor of several central Italian states, ambassador, administrator, military captain--and persona non grata with the ruling Medici after the siege of Florence--retired to his villa... -
The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice by Iain Alexander Fenlon 9780300119374
RRP: £42.50£42.48This wide-ranging study vividly presents the major events that took place in Venice in the 1570s, culminating in a deadly outbreak of the plague that claimed one-quarter of the Venetian population. Analyzing reactions to this dramatic decade, Iain Fenlon... -
Modern Naples: A Documentary History, 1799-1999 by John Santore 9780934977531
RRP: £20.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934977531Author John SantoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 140g -
Appeal to the Turk: The Broken Boundaries of the Renaissance by Giovanni Ricci 9788867289912
£38.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788867289912Author Giovanni RicciFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint ViellaPublisher ViellaWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 20mm -
The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice by Guido Ruggiero 9780195056969
RRP: £41.49£29.35Utilizing the records of several Venetian courts that dealt with sex crimes, Ruggiero traces the evolution of both licit and illicit sexuality during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Through this examination of illicit sexuality, Ruggiero sheds... -
A Spur Called Courage: SOE Heroes in Italy by Alan Ogden 9781903071359
RRP: £24.99£17.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071359Author Alan OgdenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd -
The Italian City Republics by Trevor Dean
RRP: £35.99£31.69Now in its fifth edition, The Italian City Republics illustrates how, from the eleventh century onwards, many Italian towns achieved independence as political entities, unhindered by any centralising power. Until the fourteenth century, when the regimes... -
Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome by Pamela O Long
RRP: £39.00£38.03Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the "engineering pope" Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hundreds... -
The City of Florence: Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings by (Richard Warrington Baldwin) R. W. B Lewis 9780805046304
£15.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805046304Author (Richard Warrington Baldwin) R. W. B LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 351Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company...