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Armies of the Italian Wars of Unification 1848-70 1: Piedmont and the Two Sicilies by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: $25.18$23.12In the 1840s, post-Napoleonic Italy was 'a geographical expression' - not a country, but a patchwork of states, divided between the Austrian-occupied north, and a Spanish-descended Bourbon monarchy, who ruled the south from Naples. Two decades later, it... -
Information and Communication in Venice: Rethinking Early Modern Politics by Filippo de Vivo 9780199568338
RRP: $126.00$102.50A unique investigation of the political uses of different forms of communication - oral, manuscript, and printed - in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Venice. Today we take it for granted that communication and politics influence each other through... -
Italian Venice: A History by R. J. B. Bosworth
RRP: $39.88$38.81In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice-not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalor of the belle... -
Armies of the Italian Wars of Unification 1848-70 (2) by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: $25.18$17.70In the 1840s, Italy was a patchwork of states. The North was ruled by the Austrian Empire, the South by the Spanish-descended monarchy of the Two Sicilies. Over the next two decades, after wars led by Savoy/Piedmont and volunteers such as Garibaldi, an... -
Groundwork: A History of the Renaissance Picture by David Young Kim
RRP: $115.50$90.11An illuminating look at a fundamental yet understudied aspect of Italian Renaissance paintingThe Italian Renaissance picture is renowned for its depiction of the human figure, from the dramatic foreshortening of the body to create depth to the subtle... -
Neil Lennon: Man and Bhoy by Neil Lennon 9780007233489
RRP: $25.18$18.90Captain of Celtic and midfield enforcer for Northern Ireland, Neil Lennon is one of the most controversial figures in British football. His story, fully updated for the Celtic 2006/7 season in this paperback edition, is an extraordinary tale of religious... -
The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean by Brendan O'Carroll 9781526777379
RRP: $52.50$37.00Shortly after the invasion of Sicily and to distract German attention from the Italian campaign, Churchill ordered the occupation of the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean. The Long Range Desert Group, retraining in Lebanon, were now part of Raiding... -
The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy: 1450-1600 by Jonathan J. G. Alexander
RRP: $115.50$100.99A comprehensive survey examining the vibrant and sumptuous art of illumination during a period of profound intellectual and cultural transformation Hand-painted illumination enlivened the burgeoning culture of the book in the Italian Renaissance,... -
Renaissance Florence, Updated edition by Gene A. Brucker
RRP: $52.50$41.14In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the city of Florence experienced the most creative period in her entire history. This book is an in-depth analysis of that dynamic community, focusing primarily on the years 1380-1450 in an examination of the... -
Venice and Drawing 1500-1800: Theory, Practice and Collecting by Catherine Whistler
RRP: $89.25$79.82An impressive overview of drawing in Venice, from the time of Titian and Tintoretto to that of Canaletto and Tiepolo From the time of Titian and Tintoretto to that of Canaletto and Tiepolo, drawing was an important part of artistic practice and was... -
A Woman Much Missed: A Commissario Soneri Investigation by Valerio Varesi
RRP: $20.98$14.28Italy's Maigret returns in another smouldering noir from a master of the police procedural "A master storyteller" Barry Forshaw, IndependentA few days before Christmas, with Parma gripped by frost and fog, Ghitta Tagliavini, the elderly owner of a... -
Naples: A Traveller's Reader by Mr Desmond Seward
RRP: $27.28$18.06Many Italian cities look back with pride to the days when they were independent republics: Naples, on the contrary, remembers its days as a royal capital, the brilliant administrative and political centre of The Kingdom of The Two Sicilies, ruled over... -
Republics and Kingdoms Compared by Aurelio Lippo Brandolini
RRP: $62.90$49.69Aurelio Lippo Brandolini's Republics and Kingdoms Compared is the most fascinating and least-known work of humanist political theory before Machiavelli. A Socratic dialogue set in the court of King Mattias Corvinus of Hungary (ca. 1490), the work depicts... -
Eve's War: The diaries of a military wife during the second world war by Evelyn Shillington
RRP: $23.08$15.54THE DIARIES OF A MILITARY WIFE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIn 1935, Evelyn Shillington started a diary, little knowing the years of turmoil it would cover, and how insightful her experiences as an army wife would be to the following generations.Eve joined... -
The Venetian Money Market: Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt, 1200-1500 by Reinhold C. Mueller 9781421431437
RRP: $108.15$97.46The long awaited conclusion to the magisterial Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice.Originally published in 1997. In 1985 Frederic C. Lane and Reinhold C. Mueller published the magisterial Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance... -
Let's Pretend by Laura Vaughan 9781838952082
RRP: $18.88$12.77'Clever, sharp, and deliciously dark... A one-sitting read.' Andrea Mara_____________________________When you fake it for a living, the truth is hard to find...Former child star Lily Thane is now a struggling thirty-something actress. Her old... -
The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy 9780156027632
RRP: $33.58$25.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027632Author Mary McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)... -
Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing by Carole Collier Frick
RRP: $58.80$51.53As portraits, private diaries, and estate inventories make clear, elite families of the Italian Renaissance were obsessed with fashion, investing as much as forty percent of their fortunes on clothing. In fact, the most elaborate outfits of the period... -
The Trieste Crisis 1953: The First Cold War Confrontation in Europe by Bojan Dimitrijevic 9781912866342
RRP: $35.60$25.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866342Author Bojan DimitrijevicFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Fascist Italy by John Whittam
RRP: $41.98$37.42Fascist Italy is a concise introduction to the phenomenon of Italian fascism and its impact. The author balances an up-to-date re-evaluation of political, diplomatic and military developments with a full assessment of the more neglected domestic and... -
Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization by Meredith F. Small 9781643135380
RRP: $42.00$27.01An epic cultural journey that reveals how Venetian ingenuity and inventions-from sunglasses and forks to bonds and currency-shaped modernity.How did a small, isolated city-with a population that never exceeded 100,000, even in its heyday-come to... -
Anzio Nettuno 1944 by Jörg Staiger 9781636241913
RRP: $84.00$59.30The Allied amphibious operation codenamed Shingle was launched in late January 1944. It was opposed by German forces in the area of Anzio and Nettuno. Success depended on the element of surprise, and the speed with which the invaders could build up... -
Mussolini and his Generals: The Armed Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922-1940 by John Gooch 9780521856027
RRP: $107.08$98.39This is the first authoritative study of the Italian armed forces and the relationship between the military and foreign policies of Fascist Italy from Mussolini's rise to power in 1922 to the catastrophic defeat of 1940. Using extensive new research,... -
The Renaissance in Italy: A History by Kenneth Bartlett
RRP: $56.68$45.80The Italian Renaissance has come to occupy an almost mythical place in the popular imagination. The outsized reputations of the best-known figures from the period-Michelangelo, Niccolo Machiavelli, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Pope Julius II, Isabella... -
The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily by Gordon S. Brown 9780786414727
RRP: $46.18$37.74The Normans who originally came to Italy and Sicily in the 11th and 12th centuries were looking for adventure or a livelihood, but only saw and took chances to gain fame and fortune. The story of the Norman conquest in Italy and Sicily is indeed one of... -
Modern Italy, 1871 to the Present by Martin Clark 9781405823524
RRP: $83.98$81.77This classic textbook covers the social, economic and political history of Italy from unification in 1870 to the present time. This new edition brings students right up to date, with increased coverage of the the 1980's and 90's and a new section on the... -
Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Discovery of the Renaissance by Joseph Luzzi
RRP: $48.28$39.14Some 500 years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence's unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project:... -
Isabella de'Medici: The Glorious Life and Tragic End of a Renaissance Princess by Caroline P. Murphy
RRP: $27.28$17.98Isabella de' Medici was the hostess of a glittering circle in Renaissance Florence. Beautiful and liberated, she not only matched the intellectual accomplishments of her male contemporaries, but sought sexual parity also, engaging in an adulterous affair... -
Daily Life in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook by Brian K. Harvey 9781585107957
RRP: $56.68$45.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585107957Author Brian K. HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &... -
History of the Lombards: A Captivating Guide to a Group of Germanic Peoples Who Invaded Italy and Ruled Large Areas of the Italian Peninsula by Captivating History 9781637165256
RRP: $48.28$34.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637165256Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)... -
Roman Legionary AD 284-337 by Ross Cowan
RRP: $31.48$23.00Diocletian and Constantine were the greatest of the Late Roman emperors, and their era marks the climax of the legionary system. Under Constantine's successors the legions were reduced in size and increasingly sidelined in favour of new units of elite... -
The Deadly Sisterhood: A story of Women, Power and Intrigue in the Italian Renaissance by Leonie Frieda 9780753828441 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$5.57The women who wielded the real power behind the throne in Renaissance Italy, from a bestselling historian.This book is one of drama on a grand scale, a Renaissance epic, as Christendom emerged from the shadows of the calamitous 14th century. The sweeping... -
The Deadly Sisterhood: A story of Women, Power and Intrigue in the Italian Renaissance by Leonie Frieda
RRP: $27.28$18.06The women who wielded the real power behind the throne in Renaissance Italy, from a bestselling historian.This book is one of drama on a grand scale, a Renaissance epic, as Christendom emerged from the shadows of the calamitous 14th century. The sweeping... -
Confessions of an Illuminati, Volume I: The Whole Truth About the Illuminati and the New World Order by Leo Lyon Zagami 9781888729870
$41.64Leo Lyon Zagami uses the internal documents of the Illuminati to reveal confidential and top-secret events. His book contends that the presence of numerous Illuminati brotherhoods and secret societies-just as those inside the most prestigious U.S... -
Some Reasons for Traveling to Italy by Peter Wilson
RRP: $63.00$40.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047265Author Peter WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Roger II and the Creation of the Kingdom of Sicily by Rosemary Horrox 9780719082023
RRP: $52.50$46.26This student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, for the reign of Roger II, the founder of the kingdom of Sicily. The kingdom created by King Roger was the... -
Cultivating the Renaissance: A Social History of the Medici Tuscan Villas by Katie Campbell 9781032062129
RRP: $77.68$68.31By exploring the evolution of the Medici family's villas, Cultivating the Renaissance charts the shifting politics, philosophy and aesthetics of the age and chronicles the rise of an extraordinary family from obscure farmers to European royalty.From the... -
Campaldino 1289 by Kelly DeVries
RRP: $31.48$23.00Campaldino is one of the important battles between the Guelphs and Ghibellines - the major political factions in the city states of central and northern Italy. It heralded the rise of Florence to a dominant position over the area of Tuscany and was one... -
Magick City: Travellers to Rome from the Middle Ages to 1900, Volume I: The Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century by Ronald Ridley 9781843680673
RRP: $48.20$31.79The most comprehensive anthology of writings by visitors to the eternal city ever compiled - witty, profound and endlessly entertaining. Drawing on French, Italian, Spanish, English, German, Scandinavian and American sources, Ronald Ridley has compiled... -
History of Venice: v. 3: Books IX-XII by Pietro Bembo
$65.23Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was the most celebrated Latin stylist of his day and was widely admired for his writings in Italian as well. His early dialogue on the subject of love greatly...