Italy

Apologies 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...

Apologies 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

Winner 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...

For 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...

Apologies 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 *...

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What 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951576489Author Philip MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint SempringhamPublisher Sempringham

Through 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...

When 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...

How 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...

Witchcraft. 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,...

"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 (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...

This 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...

No 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...

Following 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...

Following 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...

This 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...

In 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...

Apologies 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)...

When 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,...

Biondo 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,...

Biondo 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,...

The 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...

A 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...

Providing 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 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...

Written 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...

Apologies 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)...

A 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...

The 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...

Apologies 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 *...

During 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...

Apologies 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

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The 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 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...

By 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...

Apologies 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