Cultural Region/Italy
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Freedom to Wander: Connecting with the Past, Reinventing the Future
$17.95 Add to cartA Heartwarming Reinvention Story
Freedom to Wander is the heartwarming story of finding purpose beyond the dollars and cents of the American dream.
Former banker, Robert Gaglio lost more than just his
- Author: Gaglio, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988992806
- Language: English
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Between Salt Water and Holy Water: A History of Southern Italy
$25.99 Add to cartThe history of southern Italy is entirely distinct from that of northern Italy, yet it has never been given its own due. In this authoritative and wholly engrossing history, distinguished scholar Tomm
- Author: Astarita, Tommaso
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: June 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0393328678
- Language: English
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The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini
$29.00 Add to cartMost people outside Italy know Pier Paolo Pasolini for his films, many of which began as literary works–Arabian Nights, The Gospel According to Matthew, The Decameron, and The Canterbury Tales among … [more below]
- Author: Pasolini, Pier Paolo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 22 2015
- ISBN10: 022632544X
- Language: English
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Rome and a Villa
$19.99 Add to cart“These essays gather up Rome and hold it before us, bristling and dense and dreamlike, with every scene drenched in the sound of fountains, of leaping and falling water.” — The New Yorker
“Perhaps the
- Series: P.S. (Paperback)
- Author: Clark, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0062363409
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of Rainer Marie Rilke
$18.99 Add to cartFor poetry lovers and students of literature and literary criticism, Robert Bly, the National Book Award-winning poet, brings his prowess as a translator and critic to bear on the work of one of the m… [more below]
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 22 1981
- ISBN10: 0060907274
- Language: English
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Second Space: New Poems
$18.00 Add to cartNobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz’s most recent collection Second Space marks a new stage in one of the great poetic pilgrimages of our time. Few poets have inhabited the land of old age as long or energe
- Author: Milosz, Czeslaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 23 2005
- ISBN10: 0060755245
- Language: English
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Caesar’s Commentaries: On The Gallic War and On The Civil War
$21.95 Add to cartThis complete edition of Caesar’s Commentaries contains all eight of Caesar’s books on the Gallic War as well as all three of his books on the Civil War masterfully translated into English by W. A. Ma
- Author: Caesar, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0976072610
- Language: English
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Laura in the Kitchen: Favorite Italian-American Recipes Made Easy: A Cookbook
$27.99 Add to cartAt long last, the companion cookbook to the hit YouTube cooking show–including recipes for 120 simple, delicious Italian-American classics.
When Laura Vitale moved from Naples to the United States at- Author: Vitale, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0804187134
- Language: English
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Cooking by Hand: A Cookbook
$40.00 Add to cartOne of the most respected chefs in the country, Paul Bertolli earns glowing praise for the food at California’s renowned Oliveto restaurant. Now he shares his most personal thoughts about cooking in h… [more below]
- Author: Bertolli, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 19 2003
- ISBN10: 0609608932
- Language: English
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The Metamorphoses
$7.95 Add to cartA masterpiece of Western culture, this is the first attempt to link all the Greek myths in a cohesive whole to the Roman myths of Ovid’s day. Horace Gregory, in this modern translation, turns his own … [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0451531450
- Language: English
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My Calabria
$45.00 Add to cartAt the tip of Italy’s “boot” lies Calabria. It is a beautiful, mountainous region populated by fishermen and small farmers. Rosetta Costantino grew up in this rugged landscape–her father a shepherd a… [more below]
- Author: Costantino, Rosetta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0393065162
- Language: English
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The Stones of Venice
$17.99 Add to cart“It is in Venice, and in Venice only, that effectual blows can be struck at this pestilent art of the Renaissance. Destroy its claims to admiration there, and it can assert them nowhere else.” This wa… [more below]
- Author: Ruskin, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 10 2003
- ISBN10: 030681286X
- Language: English
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A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce
$18.00 Read moreIntellectually engaging and deliciously readable, a stereotype-defying history of how one of the most recognisable symbols of Italian cuisine and national identity is the product of centuries of encou
- Author: Montanari, Massimo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1609457099
- Language: English
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The Italian Vegetable Garden: A Complete Guide to Growing and Preparing Traditional Italian-Style Vegetables
$4.99 Add to cartRosalind Creasy, a guru of edible landscaping, does it again with The Italian Vegetable Garden–an invitation to grow and prepare some of the exceptional varieties of produce for which Italian cooking… [more below]
- Series: Edible Garden
- Author: Creasy, Rosalind
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0804857148
- Language: English
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Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo De’ Medici
$21.00 Add to cartA vividly colorful portrait of one of the greatest and most fascinating figures of the Renaissance, Lorenzo de’ Medici, focusing on his role as a brilliant–sometimes ruthless–statesman who was respo… [more below]
- Author: Unger, Miles J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 074325435X
- Language: English
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The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy’s Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza De’ Medici
$18.99 Add to cartThe astonishing life of Caterina Sforza, one of the most prominent women of Renaissance Italy, who was a wife, mother, leader, and warrior with enough fierceness to make Machiavelli himself wince.
In t… [more below]
- Author: Lev, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0547844166
- Language: English
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Divine Comedy
$62.99 Add to cartDescribed as the “fifth gospel” because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 622
- Publish Date: November 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0393044726
- Language: English
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The Annals of Imperial Rome
$19.00 Add to cartHis last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus’ The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and insight the history of the Roman Empire during the first c… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Tacite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 30 1956
- ISBN10: 0140440607
- Language: English
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For the Freedom of Zion: The Great Revolt of Jews Against Romans, 66-74 CE
$37.50 Read moreA definitive account of the great revolt of Jews against Rome and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple
“Deeply impressive. . . . Essential for all future discussions of the subject.”–Barry Strauss- Author: Rogers, Guy MacLean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 744
- Publish Date: January 04, 2022
- ISBN10: 030024813X
- Language: English
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Lays of Ancient Rome: Epic Poems
$5.50 Add to cart- Author: Macaulay, Thomas Babington
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: April 26 2021
- ISBN10: 8027340756
- Language: English
