Europe - Italy
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Venice: City of Pictures
$24.95 Add to cartVenice was a major center of art in the Renaissance: the city where the medium of oil on canvas became the norm. The achievements of the Bellini brothers, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, and
- Author: Gayford, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0500298750
- Language: English
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The Innocents of Florence: The Renaissance Discovery of Childhood
$29.99 Add to cartThe story begins with the abandonment of the newborn Agata Smeralda on February 5, 1445, in Florence’s Hospital of the Innocents, the first–but certainly not the last–child to be left at its doors.
- Author: Luzzi, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324065788
- Language: English
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Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945
$32.00 Add to cartWith Mussolini ‘s Italy, R.J.B. Bosworth–the foremost scholar on the subject writing in English–vividly brings to life the period in which Italians participated in one of the twentieth century’s mos… [more below]
- Author: Bosworth, R. J. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143038567
- Language: English
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Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy
$35.99 Add to cartThe rebirth of Italy after the Second World War is one of the most impressive political transformations in modern European history. In 1945, post-fascist Italy was devastated by war, and its reputatio
- Author: Gilbert, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0393867080
- Language: English
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Naples 1343: The Unexpected Origins of the Mafia
$29.99 Add to cartA fresh perspective on the early mafia as a means of resistance against invasion, this gripping history illustrates the previously unknown extent of these families’ power in the 14th century.
1343: th- Author: Feniello, Amedeo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1590511034
- Language: English
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The Etruscans
$12.99 Add to cartFrom around 900 to 400 BC, the Etruscans were the most innovative, powerful, wealthy, and creative people in Italy. Their archaeological record is both substantial and fascinating, including tomb pain… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Smith, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199547912
- Language: English
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The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History
$26.95 Add to cartWhether you’re vacationing in Italy or simply an armchair traveler, this guide to the Mediterranean island of Sicily is a dazzling introduction to the region’s rich 3,000-year history and culture.
A- Author: MacKay, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1786637731
- Language: English
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The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History
$19.95 Add to cartWhether you’re vacationing in Italy or simply an armchair traveler, this guide to the Mediterranean island of Sicily is a dazzling introduction to the region’s rich 3,000-year history and culture.
A- Author: MacKay, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 178663774X
- Language: English
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City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas
$25.00 Read more“The rise and fall of Venice’s empire is an irresistible story and Roger] Crowley, with his rousing descriptive gifts and scholarly attention to detail, is its perfect chronicler.”–The Financial Tim… [more below]
- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 21 2013
- ISBN10: 0812980220
- Language: English
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Harry’s Bar: The Life and Times of the Legendary Venice Landmark
$16.99 Read moreNow in paperback, the inside story of one of the world’s most renowned watering holes, legendary since the days of Hemingway.
Harry’s Bar in Venice has remained one of the world’s most storied waterin- Author: Cipriani, Arrigo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1956763066
- Language: English
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Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
$19.00 Read morePart autobiography, part sociological study, part travel memoir–Christ Stopped at Eboli is a reissue of Carlo Levi’s classic book on life in a small, desolate Italian town during the 1930s.
It was to- Author: Levi, Carlo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1250623081
- Language: English
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Modern Italy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe history of modern Italy is characterized by recurrent cultural and political projects of modernity, rejuvenation, and regeneration; projects which often had their roots in a widespread dissatisfac… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bull, Anna Cento
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198726511
- Language: English
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The Price of Children: Stolen Lives in a Land Without Choice
$21.99 Add to cart“I was spellbound . . . one of the best books I’ve recently read” –Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kittredge.
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A powerful church. An acquiescent g- Author: Laurino, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1504099230
- Language: English
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Days of Memory: Listening to Jewish Italians who lived through Fascism and the Holocaust
$22.00 Add to cartIt takes victims, blood, and years to rid a country of tyranny.
Those are words of a Jewish Italian woman who lived during Fascism and the Holocaust.
Italian Fascism was thuggish and promised order d
- Author: Monachina, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: June 30 2024
- ISBN10: 9798885450058
- Language: English
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This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair (“A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing” —The Washington Post), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced Eu… [more below]
- Author: Di Robilant, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0307597075
- Language: English
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A Sunny Place for Shady People: How Malta Became One of the Most Curious and Corrupt Places in the World
$28.95 Add to cartThe car bomb assassination of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017 shocked the European Union and put the world’s spotlight on an island so small that few knew it was an ind… [more below]
- Author: Murdock, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 159534294X
- Language: English
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Italian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Italy and Rome
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of Italy and Rome, then keep reading…
Two captivating manuscripts in one book:
- History of Italy: A Captivating Guide to Italian History, Starting from
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1637160615
- Language: English
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The World of Venice: Revised Edition
$19.99 Add to cartA fascinating exploration of the history, sights, seasons, arts, food, and people of an incomparable city. “A highly intelligent portrait of an eccentric city, written in powerful prose and enlivened … [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Morris, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0156983567
- Language: English
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The Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food
$23.99 Add to cartPerfect for fans of La Cucina and Stanley Tucci’s Taste, a vivid and passionate celebration of Italian food that explores its rich history and how it became the world’s favorite cuisine.
In this “reve- Author: Dickie, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0743278070
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Italy: 3,000 Years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic – A Retelling for Our Times
$16.95 Add to cartThe calendar. The Senate. The university. The piano, the heliocentric model, and the pizzeria. It’s hard to imagine a world without Italian influence–and easy to assume that inventions like these cou
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: King, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1891011456
- Language: English
