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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... -
Sicilian Lives by Danilo Dolci 9780394749389
RRP: £16.99£12.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394749389Author Danilo DolciFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 429g -
Tuscany in the Age of Empire by Brian Brege
RRP: £49.95£40.19Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book PrizeA new history explores how one of Renaissance Italy's leading cities maintained its influence in an era of global exploration, trade, and empire.The Grand Duchy of Tuscany was not an... -
Italy and the Grand Tour by Jeremy Black 9780300173857
£36.20For members of the social elite in eighteenth-century England, extended travel for pleasure came to be considered part of an ideal education as well as an important symbol of social status. Italy, and especially Rome - a fashionable, exciting and... -
Regio Esercito: The Italian Royal Army in Mussolini's Wars 1935-1943 by Patrick Cloutier
RRP: £26.17£22.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781097633685Author Patrick CloutierFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
The Flower of Battle: MS M 383 by Michael Chidester 9781953683076
£40.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953683076Author Michael ChidesterFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint Hema BookshelfPublisher Hema BookshelfWeight(grams) 821gDimensions(mm) 279mm *... -
Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945 by R. J. B. Bosworth 9780143038566
RRP: £32.00£23.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143038566Author R. J. B. BosworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
The Italian Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of Mussolini and Fascism by Richard J. B. Bosworth 9780340677278
£26.43What was Italian Fascism? Was it the ideology and experience of the trenches brought to political authority? Or did it express the hopes and ideals of an emerging middle class which had done well out of the First World War? To what extent was fascism a... -
Italy 1915-1940 by Philip Morgan 9780951576489
RRP: £7.95£6.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951576489Author Philip MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint SempringhamPublisher Sempringham -
Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy by Fiona Greenland
RRP: £31.00£30.19Through much of its history, Italy was Europe's heart of the arts, an artistic playground for foreign elites and powers who bought, sold, and sometimes plundered countless artworks and antiquities. This loss of artifacts looted by other nations once put... -
History of the Mafia by Salvatore Lupo
RRP: £28.00£21.72When 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... -
The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean by Jessica Marglin
RRP: £30.00£23.29How a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew shines new light on the history of belongingIn the winter of 1873, Nissim Shamama, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno, Italy. His passing... -
Nuns Behaving Badly: Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy by Craig A. Monson
RRP: £19.00£18.50Witchcraft. Arson. Going AWOL. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed, and occasionally persecuted by their male superiors,... -
Magick City: Travellers to Rome from the Middle Ages to 1900, Volume III: The Nineteenth Century by Ronald Ridley 9781843681403
RRP: £24.95£16.35"Ronald's detailed and thoroughly enjoyable collection shows how it can take a visitor to appreciate what the residents are so used to, they take for granted." - Camden New Journal/Islington Tribune/West End Extra The most comprehensive anthology of... -
Leonardo Bruni: History of the Florentine People: v. 3: Books IX XII Memoirs by James Hankins
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... -
Florence, Rome, and the Origins of the Renaissance by George Holmes
£42.75This study sets out to place the remarkable cultural events of the early Renaissance in a full historical perspective. Dealing with both literary and visual art, it describes the world of Dante and Giotto and explains the circumstances in which their... -
The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600: Hinterland, Territory, Region by Tom Scott 9780199675395
£43.15No detailed comparison of the city-state in medieval Europe has been undertaken over the last century. Research has concentrated on the role of city-states and their republican polities as harbingers of the modern state, or else on their artistic and... -
Twentieth Century Italy: A Social History by Jonathan Dunnage 9780582292789 [USED COPY]
RRP: £42.99£2.26Following a historically chronological approach, and with a clear focus on the marked regional diversity characterising Italy, this volume analyses the impact of social, economic, cultural and political transformation on the lives of Italians. It... -
Twentieth Century Italy: A Social History by Jonathan Dunnage 9780582292789
£45.98Following a historically chronological approach, and with a clear focus on the marked regional diversity characterising Italy, this volume analyses the impact of social, economic, cultural and political transformation on the lives of Italians. It... -
The Military Organisation of a Renaissance State: Venice c.1400 to 1617 by M. E. Mallett 9780521032476
RRP: £30.99£28.68This book describes the role and organization of the land forces of a renaissance state over a long period. It thus provides a model against which the military development of other countries can be measured in terms of the composition, control and cost... -
Machiavelli and Guicciardini: Politics and History in Sixteenth Century Florence by Felix Gilbert 9780393301236
RRP: £21.00£18.11In Felix Gilbert's skilled analysis, the figures of Niccolo Machiavelli, whose writing changed the way people think about politics, and Francesco Guicciardini, whose History of Italy is one of the first classics of modern historical writing, provide... -
Italian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Italy and Rome by Captivating History 9781637160442
RRP: £19.97£12.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637160442Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm)... -
From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town by Ingrid D. Rowland
RRP: £26.95£21.41When Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the force of the explosion blew the top right off the mountain, burying nearby Pompeii in a shower of volcanic ash. Ironically, the calamity that proved so lethal for Pompeii's inhabitants preserved the city for centuries,... -
Italy Illuminated: v. 1: Books I-IV by Biondo Flavio 9780674017436 [USED COPY]
RRP: £29.95£14.05Biondo Flavio (1392-1463), humanist and historian, was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance recovery of classical antiquity. While serving a number of the Renaissance popes, he inaugurated an extraordinary program of research into the history,... -
Italy Illuminated: v. 1: Books I-IV by Biondo Flavio
RRP: £29.95£24.06Biondo Flavio (1392-1463), humanist and historian, was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance recovery of classical antiquity. While serving a number of the Renaissance popes, he inaugurated an extraordinary program of research into the history,... -
Between Salt Water and Holy Water: A History of Southern Italy by Tommaso Astarita 9780393328677
RRP: £21.00£16.30The history of southern Italy is entirely distinct from that of northern Italy, yet it has never been given its own due. In this authoritative and wholly engrossing history, distinguished scholar Tommaso Astarita "does a masterful job of correcting this... -
Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American by Ian MacAllen 9781538162347
RRP: £25.00£21.79A narrative social history tracing the evolution of traditional Italian-American cuisine from its origins in Italy and its transformation in America into a distinct new cuisine.About the AuthorIan MacAllen is a writer and book critic. His maternal... -
Italy in the Modern World: Society, Culture and Identity by Linda Reeder
£27.99Providing a comprehensive history of Italy from around 1800 to the present, Italy in the Modern World traces the social and cultural transformations that defined the lives of Italians during the 19th and 20th century. The book focuses on how social... -
In Our Image and Likeness: Humanity and Divinity in Italian Humanist Thought by Charles Trinkaus 9780268011734
RRP: £35.00£32.34"In this massive, meticulously researched work Trinkaus makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Italian humanists and the Christian Renaissance in Italy. . . . The author argues persuasively that the Italian humanists drew their... -
Italy and Its Monarchy by Denis Mack Smith 9780300051322
£35.50Written by one of the world's leading historians of Italy, this provocative and highly readable book is the first major study of the Italian monarchy and its impact on Italy's history, from Unification in 1861 to the foundation of the Italian republic... -
Italian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Italy and Rome by Captivating History 9781637160619
RRP: £27.99£17.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637160619Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 603gDimensions(mm)... -
The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy: Arts and Medicine at the University of Bologna by David A. Lines
RRP: £45.95£36.69A pathbreaking history of early modern education argues that Europe's oldest university, often seen as a bastion of traditionalism, was in fact a vibrant site of intellectual innovation and cultural exchange.The University of Bologna was among the... -
Women and the Visual Arts in Italy c. 1400-1650: Luxury and Leisure, Duty and Devotion: a Sourcebook by Mary Rogers 9780719080999
RRP: £19.99£17.82The anthology of original sources from c.1400 to 1650, translated form Italian or Latin, and accompanied by introductions and bibliographies, is concerned with women's varied involvement with the visual arts and material culture of their day. The readers... -
Robert Guiscard: Portrait of a Warlord by Richard Brown 9781532755880
RRP: £15.25£13.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532755880Author Prof Richard BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Labour and the Wounds: A Personal Chronicle of One Man's Fight for Freedom by Clement Salvadori 9780990645948
RRP: £15.00£13.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990645948Author Clement SalvadoriFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Trovatello PressPublisher Trovatello PressWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...