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She-Wolf: The Story of a Roman Icon by Cristina Mazzoni
RRP: $27.09Booksplease Price: $26.33Since antiquity, the she-wolf has served as the potent symbol of Rome. For more than two thousand years, the legendary animal that rescued Romulus and Remus has been the subject of historical and... -
Italian Made Simple: Revised and Updated by Cristina Mazzoni
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767915397Author Cristina MazzoniFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Broadway Books (A Division... -
Angela of Foligno`s Memorial by Cristina Mazzoni 9780859915625
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.61The powerful voice of major Italian medieval woman mystic, translated with commentary. Angela of Foligno is considered by many as the greatest mystical voice among Italian medieval women. She... -
She-Wolf: The Story of a Roman Icon by Cristina Mazzoni 9780521194563
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $60.10Since antiquity, the she-wolf has served as the potent symbol of Rome. For more than two thousand years, the legendary animal that rescued Romulus and Remus has been the subject of historical and... -
The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales by Professor Cristina Mazzoni
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.12A collection of magical Italian folk and fairy tales-most in English for the first timeThe Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales presents twenty magical stories published between 1875 and... -
Golden Fruit: A Cultural History of Oranges in Italy by Christina Mazzoni 9781487502669
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $51.47Through a close reading of key texts, including poetic and spiritual writings, fairy tales, and a botanical treatise, Golden Fruit examines the role of oranges in Italian culture from their... -
Fate, Honor, Family and Village: Demographic and Cultural Change in Rural Italy Since 1800 Rudolph M. Bell 9780202309163
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $59.97The Italian peasantry has often been described as tragic, backward, hopeless, downtrodden, static, and passive. In Fate and Honor, Family and Village, Rudolph Bell argues against this... -
The Crisis-Woman: Body Politics and the Modern Woman in Fascist Italy by Natasha V. Chang 9781442649675
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $43.41Femininity in the form of the donna-crisi, or "crisis-woman," was a fixture of fascist propaganda in the early 1930s. A uniquely Italian representation of the modern woman, she was cosmopolitan,... -
In Praise of Disobedience: Clare of Assisi, A Novel by Dacia Maraini
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49An author receives a mysterious e-mail begging her to tell the story of Clare of Assisi, the thirteenth-century Italian saint. At first annoyed by the request, the author begins to research Saint... -
Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette Leroux by Jan Goldstein 9780691152370
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $34.48Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy offers a rare window into the inner life of a person ordinarily inaccessible to historians: a semiliterate peasant girl who lived almost two centuries ago, in the...