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The Companion Guide to Rome by Georgina Masson
RRP: $48.73$40.76Classic guide to Rome. 2009 edition, thoroughly revised and updated. Six years after his first, very thorough, revision, John Fort has returned to the task, so that this long-honoured guidebook, regarded by the discerning visitor, since its first... -
Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence by Andrew Butterfield 9780691233086
RRP: $136.50$105.89A comprehensive survey of the work of this most influential Florentine artist and teacherAndrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435-1488) was one of the most versatile and inventive artists of the Italian Renaissance. He created art across media, from his... -
The Italian Wars: Volume 4 - The Battle of Ceresole 1544 - The Crushing Defeat of the Imperial Army by Massimo Predonzani
RRP: $48.75$34.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070296Author Massimo PredonzaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Dante by Alessandro Barbero
RRP: $21.43$15.15"A vital guide ... It is difficult to imagine anyone seriously interested in Dante who will not want to own this book" AN Wilson, The Times Since Dante Alighieri wrote the Divine Comedy it has defined how people imagine and depict not only heaven and... -
Old Puglia: A Cultural Companion to South-Eastern Italy by Desmond Seward
RRP: $25.33$17.53In recent years, tourists have discovered the rustic charms of Puglia, also known as Apulia, the heel stretching down from the spur of the Italian boot. The region boasts beautiful landscapes and miles of dramatic coastline, cities with Romanesque... -
The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance by Paul Strathern 9781681774084
RRP: $36.95$26.15A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning... -
A Champion Cyclist Against the Nazis: The Incredible Life of Gino Bartali by Alberto Toscano 9781526753397
RRP: $38.98$27.85Italy, 1943/. Although allied with Hitler, there were those who refused to accept the fascist policies of racial discrimination and deportation. Among them was Gino Bartali. A champion cyclist, he won the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) three times and... -
Early Modern Italy: 1550-1796 by John A. Marino 9780198700425
RRP: $85.78$71.64Early Modern Italian history has traditionally been presented in the context of the absence of a unified Italian state, foreign domination and of relative decline to former wealth and power. This new volume calls on a wealth of recent research to portray... -
Syracuse, City of Legends: A Glory of Sicily by Jeremy Dummett
RRP: $33.13$25.66This vivid and engaging book weaves together the history, architecture and archaeology of Syracuse and is an essential companion for anyone visiting the city. Dubbed 'the greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of them all' by Cicero, Syracuse also... -
Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court: Music and the Circulation of Power by Suzanne G. Cusick 9780226132136
RRP: $76.05$74.16A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant musical figure there for thirty years. Dazzling listeners with the transformative power of her... -
"Tosca's" Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective by Susan V. Nicassio
RRP: $40.95$39.60A timeless tale of love, lust, and politics, "Tosca" is one of the most popular operas ever written. In "Tosca's Rome," Susan Vandiver Nicassio explores the surprising historical realities that lie behind Giacomo Puccini's opera and the play by Victorien... -
Infantrymen of the Air: An Operational History of the Royal Italian Airborne Forces in the Second World War, 1936-1943 by Jeffrey W S Leser 9781915113702
RRP: $97.40$68.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113702Author Jeffrey W S LeserFormat PaperbackPage Count 542Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Country Profiles: Italy by Amy Rechner 9781626176836
$29.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626176836Author Amy RechnerFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Bellwether MediaPublisher Bellwether Media -
Savoia-Marchetti S.79 Sparviero Torpedo-Bomber Units by Marco Mattioli
RRP: $33.13$23.95Italy's most successful wartime bomber, the S.79 saw combat with the Regia Aeronautica in France, Yugoslavia, Greece, North Africa, East Africa and in the Mediterranean. Initially developed as a transport, the aircraft evolved into a dedicated medium... -
Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg
RRP: $44.85$39.68More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first published in English, this extraordinary collection remains a classic. The book brings together essays about Renaissance witchcraft, National Socialism, sixteenth-century... -
The Wonders of Florence by Dario Cestaro 9788831719216
RRP: $39.00$26.48The first pop-up book on Florence. Dario Cestaro's spectacular drawings and paper architecture reveal Florence and its treasures in a pop-up book telling the city's history with straightforward texts and interesting facts. This fascinating journey in... -
Giordano Bruno: Philosopher Heretic by Ingrid D. Rowland
RRP: $35.10$30.03Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo - a thinker whose vision of the... -
Dosso's Fate - Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy by Luisa Ciammitti 9780892365050
RRP: $87.75$75.33Arising from the proceedings of two symposia, this text is composed of contributions by scholars who examine the social, intellectual and historical contexts of the work of the Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni di Lutero, who used the name Dosso.Book... -
The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice by Judith Mackrell 9780500294567
RRP: $33.05$23.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500294567Author Judith MackrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Thames & HudsonPublisher Thames & HudsonWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
The Italian Army in North Africa, 1940-43: Luck Was Lacking, but Valor Was Not by Ralph Riccio
RRP: $87.75$62.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336165Author Ralph RiccioFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Battle for Italy: One of the Second World War's Most Brutal Campaigns by John Strawson 9781804365861
RRP: $25.33$15.95One of the Second World War's most brutal and dramatic campaigns brought to life in this vivid and epic historyIt could have all been over much quicker. In this gripping account, bestseller John Strawson analyses how the slow, bloody and fiercely fought... -
Sansovino's Venice by Vaughan Hart
RRP: $53.63$45.42This is the first English translation of Francesco Sansovino's (1521-1586) celebrated guide to Venice, which was first published in 1561. One of the earliest books to describe the monuments of Venice for inquisitive travelers, Sansovino's guide was... -
The Anglo-Florentines: The British in Tuscany, 1814-1860 by Diana Webb
RRP: $48.73$43.25This book gives a fuller picture than has hitherto been attempted of the variety of Britons who became residents of Florence between the end of the Napoleonic wars and the absorption of Tuscany into the kingdom of Italy. Many of them were leisured, and... -
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies by Alessandro Barchiesi 9780198856009
$96.95The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies is an indispensable guide to the latest scholarship in this area. Over fifty distinguished scholars elucidate the contribution of material as well as literary culture to our understanding of the Roman world. The... -
Palermo, City of Kings: The Heart of Sicily by Jeremy Dummett
$86.05Palermo - the capital of Sicily - is a destination with a difference. The city is a treasure trove of original monuments and works of art, combined with architecture of grand proportions. Yet it also has a grittier side, shown by the continuing influence... -
Bellissima: Feminine Beauty and the Idea of Italy by Stephen Gundle 9780300176803
$83.44Feminine beauty has been more discussed, appreciated, represented in art and associated with national, cultural identity in Italy than in any other country. From the time of Dante and Petrarch, ideals of beauty have informed the works of artists,... -
The Family Medici: The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty by Mary Hollingsworth
RRP: $56.45$44.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643131504Author Mary HollingsworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 236mm *... -
The Lizard Strategy by Valerio Varesi
RRP: $19.48$13.26Italy's Maigret returns in another smouldering noir from a master of the police procedural "A master storyteller" Barry Forshaw, IndependentParma is blanketed in snow, but this pristine, white veneer cannot mask the stench of corruption. Its officials... -
Umbria: The Heart of Italy by Patricia Clough
RRP: $21.43$15.03When Patricia Clough bought a house in Umbria, she knew that buying her dream home did not mean that life would become a dream. By the end of this book, in which she describes the journey of making Umbria her home, she is sure that if one has basic... -
The First Victory: The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign by Andrew Stewart
RRP: $58.50$57.82A riveting new account of the long-overlooked achievement of British-led forces who, against all odds, scored the first major Allied victory of the Second World War Surprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, in 1941 British and... -
Rome: An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present by Rabun Taylor 9781107601499
RRP: $68.23$56.12Spanning the entire history of the city of Rome from Iron Age village to modern metropolis, this is the first book to take the long view of the Eternal City as an urban organism. Three thousand years old and counting, Rome has thrived almost from the... -
Why Dante Matters: An Intelligent Person's Guide by Professor John Took
RRP: $39.00$27.87John Took provides an entirely original view of one of the most important poets and thinkers in all of Western literature, Dante Alighieri. The year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, a poet who, as T. S. Eliot put it,... -
The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums by Peter Watson
RRP: $37.03$28.31The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the... -
SAS in Italy 1943-1945: Raiders in Enemy Territory by Malcolm Tudor 9781781556979
RRP: $39.00$29.33This is the story of Britain's elite special force in Italy during the Second World War. In the summer of 1943 the SAS came out of Africa to carry the fight to the Germans and Fascists in Sicily and the mainland. On the Italian Armistice and Surrender in... -
Medieval Rome: Stability and Crisis of a City, 900-1150 by Chris Wickham 9780198811220
RRP: $55.56$39.76Medieval Rome analyses the history of the city of Rome between 900 and 1150, a period of major change in the city. This volume doesn't merely seek to tell the story of the city from the traditional Church standpoint; instead, it engages in studies of the... -
Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth: Vico and Neapolitan Painting by Malcolm Bull 9780691138848
RRP: $58.50$45.42Can painting transform philosophy? In Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth, Malcolm Bull looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. Surrounded by extravagant examples of late Baroque painting by artists like... -
Heinemann Advanced History: Mussolini & Italy by Edward Townley
$63.22Separate sections for AS and A2 ensures students have the information they need at the right depth. Exam preparation and advice at the end of each section help students understand what examiners are looking for and what style questions your exam board... -
An Englishman Abroad by Gianluca Barneschi
RRP: $33.13$25.66Based on 20 years of research, Gianluca Barneschi has uncovered the true story of a real-life James Bond. The debonair Special Operations Executive agent Richard 'Dick' Mallaby was the first Briton to be sent to Italy as an SOE operative, parachuted... -
Early Rome to 290 Bc: The Beginnings of the City and the Rise of the Republic by Guy Bradley
RRP: $60.45$50.80The emergence of Rome as an imperial power. In the first few centuries of its existence, Rome developed from a minor settlement on the Tiber into the most powerful city-state in Italy. This book examines the reasons for Rome's emergence and success... -
Valley in Italy by Lisa St Auben de Teran 9780060926199
RRP: $35.08$24.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060926199Author Lisa St Auben de TeranFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc