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Sicilian Lives by Danilo Dolci 9780394749389
RRP: $33.13$23.61Apologies 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: $97.40$78.37Winner 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
$70.59For 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... -
The Flower of Battle: MS M 383 by Michael Chidester 9781953683076
$79.48Apologies 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: $62.40$45.30Apologies 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
$51.54What 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: $15.50$13.01Apologies 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: $60.45$58.87Through 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: $54.60$42.35When 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: $58.50$45.42How 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: $37.05$36.08Witchcraft. 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: $48.65$31.88"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: $58.40$46.92Leonardo 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
$83.36This 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
$84.14No 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: $83.83$4.41Following 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
$89.66Following 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: $60.43$55.93This 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: $40.95$35.31In 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: $38.94$24.02Apologies 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: $52.55$41.75When 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: $58.40$27.40Biondo 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: $58.40$46.92Biondo 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: $40.95$33.54The 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: $48.75$42.49A 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
$54.58Providing 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: $68.25$63.06"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
$69.23Written 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: $54.58$34.89Apologies 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: $89.60$71.55A 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: $38.98$34.75The 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... -
The Labour and the Wounds: A Personal Chronicle of One Man's Fight for Freedom by Clement Salvadori 9780990645948
RRP: $29.25$26.27Apologies 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 *... -
Under the Volcano: Revolution in a Sicilian Town by Lucy Riall 9780199646494
RRP: $148.20$112.05During the momentous events that shook Italy in 1860 as the nation was unified, there was a murderous riot in the Sicilian town of Bronte on the slopes of Mount Etna. Thereafter, Bronte became a symbol - of the limits of the liberal Risorgimento and of... -
The Land of Piceno by Phoebe Leed 9781735853215
$78.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735853215Author Phoebe LeedFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Rondini PressPublisher Rondini PressWeight(grams) 812gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 18mm -
An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddesttown by David Farley 9781592405497
RRP: $46.80$32.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592405497Author David FarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 133mm * 21mm -
A Renaissance Marriage: The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490-1519 by Carolyn James 9780199681211
RRP: $165.75$132.09The marriage of Isabella d'Este, one of the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance, and Francesco Gonzaga, ruler of the small northern Italian principality of Mantua (r.1484-1519) offers a fascinating portrait of political marriage in the early... -
A Primer of Italian Fascism by Jeffrey Thompson Schnapp 9780803292680
$56.92A Primer of Italian Fascism makes available for the first time in English translation the key documents pertaining to one of our century's defining mass political movements. Whereas existing anthologies survey Fascist writings in a multiplicity of... -
Faith, Reason, and the Plague in Seventeenth Century Tuscany by Professor Carlo M Cipolla 9780393000450
RRP: $29.25$24.00By the late fall of 1630, the Black Plague had descended upon northern Italy. The prentice Magistry of Public Health, centered in Florence, took steps to contain and combat the scourge. In this essay, Carlo Cipolla recreates the daily struggle of... -
The World of Venice: Revised Edition by Jan Morris 9780156983563
RRP: $38.98$28.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156983563Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 135mm * 24mm -
The War in Italy: the Second Italian War of Independence, 1859 by John E Tuel 9780857068859
$22.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857068859Author John E TuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 327g