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Rome: The Biography of a City by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: £22.00£16.62This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many layered past of the Eternal City. It covers 3,000 years of history from the city's quasi-mythical origins,... -
World War II Partisan Warfare in Italy by Pier Paolo Battistelli
RRP: £14.99£12.55When Italy surrendered in 1943, it sparked a resistance movement of anti-German, anti-fascist partisans. This book explores the tactics, organizational structure and equipment of the brave Italian resistance fighters. Beginning with low-level sabotage... -
Italian Hours by Henry James
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The charm of certain vacant grassy spaces, in Italy, overfrowned by masses of brickwork that are honeycombed by the suns of centuries, is something that I hereby renounce once for all the attempt to express; but you may be sure that whenever I mention... -
John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy by William Caferro 9781421418414
RRP: £30.50£27.77This book is the winner, 2008 Otto Grundler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute Notorious for his cleverness and daring, John Hawkwood was the most feared mercenary in early Renaissance Italy. Born in England, Hawkwood began his career in France during... -
Sicily: Island of Beauty and Conflict by Jeremy Dummett
RRP: £20.00£15.72A guide to the fascinating and diverse history and culture of Sicily. The book includes key events, places and artists highlighted in wide-ranging articles presented in four parts: History, Cities, Ancient Sites and Artists. A rich tapestry emerges of... -
The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy by Peter Burke 9780745648262
RRP: £17.99£16.04In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and... -
Cultural Identity in the Roman Empire by Ray Laurence 9780415241496
RRP: £37.99£33.38This provocative and often controversial volume examines concepts of ethnicity, citizenship and nationhood, to determine what constituted cultural identity in the Roman Empire. The contributors draw together the most recent research and use diverse... -
The Borgias and Their Enemies, 1431-1519 by Christopher Hibbert 9780547247816
RRP: £17.99£12.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547247816Author Christopher HibbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)... -
The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici by Catherine Fletcher
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 1531 - after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and... -
Italy: A Short History by Harry Hearder 9780521000727
RRP: £24.99£20.69Italy: A Short History is a concise but comprehensive account of Italian history from the Ice Age to the present day. It is intended for both students of Italian history and culture and the general reader, whether tourist, business-person or traveller,... -
Alesia 52 BC by Nic Fields
RRP: £16.99£12.28In 52 BC Caesar's continued strategy of annihilation had engendered a spirit of desperation, which detonated into a revolt of Gallic tribes under the leadership of the charismatic young Arvernian noble Vercingetorix. Major engagements were fought at... -
Macchi C.202 Folgore: Italy's Best Fighter of the Second World War by Davide F. Jabes 9781781558300
RRP: £30.00£21.35The Macchi C.202 was probably the most successful Italian fighter during the Second World War. It is generally agreed that the performance of the Macchi was superior to both the Hawker Hurricane and the Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk and on a par with the... -
Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance by Edward Muir
RRP: £25.50£22.44Nobles were slaughtered and their castles looted or destroyed, bodies were dismembered and corpses fed to animals-the Udine carnival massacre of 1511 was the most extensive and damaging popular revolt in Renaissance Italy (and the basis for the story of ... -
Armies of the Medieval Italian Wars 1125-1325 by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: £11.99£8.43The great powers of medieval Europe fought continuously in the Italian peninsula between the 12th and 14th centuries as they sought to expand their territory. Invading armies from Germany - the Holy Roman Empire - saw the creation of the defensive... -
The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps by Jessica Maier
RRP: £36.00£31.37One of the most visited places in the world, Rome attracts millions of tourists each year to walk its storied streets and see famous sites like the Colosseum, St. Peter's Basilica, and the Trevi Fountain. Yet this ancient city's allure is due as much to... -
Mantegna and Bellini by Caroline Campbell 9781857096347
RRP: £35.00£31.97An innovative study of the relationship between Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini, two masters of the Italian Renaissance Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431-1506) and Giovanni Bellini (active c. 1459; died 1516) each produced groundbreaking paintings, marked... -
Venice: A New History by Thomas F. Madden
RRP: £21.00£13.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147509802Author Thomas F. MaddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 213mm... -
Italian Armoured & Reconnaissance Cars 1911-45 by Filippo Cappellano
RRP: £11.99£8.43The first Italian armoured cars were used in the war in Libya in 1911-12 against the Ottoman Empire. With few tanks being developed, the Italians relied instead on the development of more mobile armoured cars like the Ansaldo Lancia 1 Z, during World War... -
The French Invasion of Italy in 1494: The History and Legacy of the Conflict that Started the Italian Wars by Charles River Editors 9781721939329
RRP: £10.24£8.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781721939329Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Conclave 1559: Ippolito d'Este and the Papal Election of 1559 by Mary Hollingsworth
RRP: £10.99£7.77Intrigue, double-dealing and conspiracy in the Eternal City. 'A fascinating narrative of the intermingling of secular and religious power' New Statesman 'A highly enjoyable and thrilling read... Hollingsworth has peeled back the veil of secrecy... -
A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors by Anthony Blond
RRP: £10.99£7.40The history of ancient Rome omitting all the boring bits. Following the success of BBC2 hit Rome on BBC2, no one has looked at the private lives of the Roman Emperors again in the same light. Anthony Blond's scandalous expose of the life of the Roman... -
The Prince (Hero Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915054821Author Niccolo MachiavelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press Ltd -
When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy by Christine Toomey
RRP: £20.00£13.10'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began speaking of the earth beneath our feet as la terra ballerina, the dancing earth. The dance they spoke of was unrelenting... -
Siren Land: A Celebration of Life in Southern Italy by Norman Douglas
RRP: £12.99£9.79Weaving the myths of the Sirens into the landscape and history of the island of Capri, Siren Land focuses on the legends and archaeology, folklore and daily life, patron saints, local ghosts, wine and the wind of the region. Norman Douglas, one of the... -
Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World: A History by William Alexander
RRP: £22.00£16.29The tomato gets no respect. Never has. Lost in the dustbin of history for centuries, accused of being vile and poisonous, subjected to being picked hard-green and gassed, even used as a projectile, the poor tomato has become the avatar for our... -
Sidereus Nuncius, or the Sidereal Messenger by Galileo Galilei
RRP: £16.00£15.77Galileo Galilei's Sidereus Nuncius is arguably the most dramatic scientific book ever published. It announced new and unexpected phenomena in the heavens, "unheard of through the ages," revealed by a mysterious new instrument. Galileo had ingeniously... -
Music in Golden-Age Florence, 1250–1750: From the Priorate of the Guilds to the End of the Medici Grand Duchy by Anthony M. Cummings
RRP: £48.00£40.43A comprehensive account of music in Florence from the late Middle Ages until the end of the Medici dynasty in the mid-eighteenth century. Florence is justly celebrated as one of the world's most important cities. It enjoys mythic status and occupies an... -
Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome by Shawn Levy
RRP: £12.99£8.60SUNDAY TIMES FILM BOOK OF THE YEAR'Uproariously readable ... Levy is a master of the group biography' Sunday Times'Teeming with satisfying gossipy details' Guardian'Exalts the intoxicating, beguiling dreaminess of Rome in its celluloid heyday' TLS1950s... -
Venice: The Lion, the City and the Water by Cees Nooteboom 9781529402575
RRP: £12.99£7.51"Witty and meditative by turns, the overall effect is like being shown around by a wonderfully self-effacing, but impressively erudite guide" The Sunday Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR"Nooteboom has achieved the impossible: to say something new about the ageless... -
Armies of the Italian-Turkish War: Conquest of Libya, 1911–1912 by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: £11.99£8.43In the early 1900s, the decaying Ottoman Turkish Empire had lost some of its Balkan territories, but still nominally ruled all of North Africa between British Egypt in the east and French Algeria in the west. Libya had fertile coastal territory, and was... -
The Battles for Monte Cassino Then and Now by Jeffrey Plowman
RRP: £50.00£41.59The Battles for Cassino encompassed one of the few truly international conflicts of the Second World War. A strategic town on the road to Rome, the fighting lasted four months and cost the lives of more than 14,000 men from eight nations. Between January... -
Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer by Christopher S. Celenza
RRP: £14.95£10.92Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. His writings inspired the Humanist movement and, subsequently, the Renaissance, but few figures are as complex or as... -
Blood on the Altar by Tobias Jones
RRP: £10.99£7.32One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women's hair on the... -
Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal: Workers and Workplace in the Preindustrial City by Robert C. Davis
RRP: £25.50£24.39The master ship builders of seventeenth-century Venice formed part of what was arguably the greatest manufacturing complex in early modern Europe. As many as three thousand masters, apprentices, and laborers regularly worked in the city's enormous... -
Mercenaries and Their Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy by Michael Mallett
RRP: £14.99£10.95Michael Mallett's classic study of Renaissance warfare in Italy is as relevant today as it was when it was first published a generation ago. His lucid account of the age of the condottieri - the mercenary captains of fortune - and of the soldiers who... -
Road to Valor: A True Story of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation by Aili McConnon
RRP: £20.00£12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307590657Author Aili McConnonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
Dante: The Story of His Life by Marco Santagata
RRP: £17.95£15.00A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A Marginal Revolution Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearMarco Santagata's... -
A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991 - Updated and revised edition by Bahru Zewde
RRP: £24.99£23.92Updated and revised edition. Bahru Zewde has updated the first edition, adding a new chapter and taking the history through to 1991. 'The new chapter enhances the value of the book as the best historical introduction to modern Ethiopia. The... -
April Blood by Lauro Martines
RRP: £12.99£9.09In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried. The younger of the two brothers was killed, but Lorenzo the Magnificent, the brilliant poet and connoisseur escaped. A bloodbath followed and all of... -
Venice, A Maritime Republic by Frederic Chapin Lane
RRP: £35.00£31.64"Frederic Lane has achieved what is the often unfulfilled dream of every historian who has devoted his entire work to the exploration of partial aspects of a single broad subject: he has given us a comprehensive, thoughtful, readable, beautifully...