Cultural Region/Italy
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S.P.Q.R: A History of Ancient Rome
$18.99 Add to cartIn SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome “with passion and without technical jargon” and demonstrates how “a slightly shabby Iron Age village” rose to become the “undispute
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1631492225
- Language: English
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The Pope and the Holocaust: Pius XII and the Secret Vatican Archives
$19.95 Read moreFor over two decades, Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, has been blasted in the public square as “Hitler’s Pope”, accused by bestselling authors of cowardice in the face of the Nazi regime. Some have ev
- Author: Hesemann, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 459
- Publish Date: August 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1621643735
- Language: English
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The Vampire Armand
$9.99 Read moreIn the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand – eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appe… [more below]
- Series: Vampire Chronicles #6
- Author: Rice, Anne
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 03 2000
- ISBN10: 0345434803
- Language: English
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Joyful Beggar: A Novel of St. Francis of Assisi
$19.95 Read moreIn this magnificent and stirring novel, Louis de Wohl turns his famed narrative skill to the story of the soldier and merchant’s son who might have been right-hand man to a king … and who became ins
- Author: de Wohl, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: March 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0898708141
- Language: English
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A Man of the Beatitudes: Pier Giorgio Frassati
$17.95 Read moreA beguiling and moving biography of Pier Giorgio Frassati, a handsome, athletic and fun-loving young man from a rich, aristocratic Italian family in the 1920’s who was recently beatified by Pope John … [more below]
- Author: Frassati, Luciana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: June 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0898708613
- Language: English
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Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works
$10.95 Add to cartThis entirely new translation includes Petrarch’s short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Posterity and The Ascent of Mount Ventoux, and a selection of twenty-seven poems from the Canzoniere… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Petrarch, Francesco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540691
- Language: English
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Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
$19.99 Read moreInspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has crafted a biography that dramatically recolors the
- Author: Sobel, Dava
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0802779654
- Language: English
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A Table Full of Love: Recipes to Comfort, Seduce, Celebrate & Everything Else in Between
$35.00 Add to cart“The food writer (and photographer) for the world to watch.” –The Spectator
From the beloved author of A Table for Friends, more than 100 nourishing recipes to bring people together–and a culinary lov- Author: McAlpine, Skye
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1639730494
- Language: English
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American Sfoglino: A Master Class in Handmade Pasta
$37.50 Add to cart*THE JAMES BEARD MEDIA AWARD WINNER FOR BEST PHOTOGRAPHY*
“Evan Funke’s respect for tradition and detail makes American Sfoglino the perfect introduction to the fresh egg pastas of Emilia Romagna. It- Author: Funke, Evan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1452173311
- Language: English
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Bread and How to Eat It: A Cookbook
$30.00 Read moreThis is a book about bread: how to make it and how to eat it at every stage of its life cycle–from the James Beard Award-nominated owner of cult-favorite bakery Bread & Salt.
“What happens when an al- Author: Easton, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0593319095
- Language: English
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DK Eyewitness Top 10 Sicily
$14.99 Add to cartRinged by dazzling blue waters, sun-dappled Sicily and its picturesque islands offer an endless supply of captivating cities, legendary ruins, and sandy beaches.
Make the most of your trip to this Med- Series: Pocket Travel Guide
- Author: Dk Eyewitness
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0241664977
- Language: English
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The Roman Revolution
$17.99 Add to cartIt was the fall before the fall. The Roman Revolution describes the little known “crisis of the third century”. Long before the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, in the years between … [more below]
- Series: The Fall of the Roman Empire #1
- Author: Holmes, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: July 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1739786505
- Language: English
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Southern Italian Desserts: Rediscovering the Sweet Traditions of Calabria, Campania, Basilicata, Puglia, and Sicily [A Baking Book]
$29.99 Add to cartAn authentic guide to the festive, mouthwatering sweets of Southern Italy, including regional specialties that are virtually unknown in the US, as well as variations on more popular desserts such as c… [more below]
- Author: Costantino, Rosetta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1607744023
- Language: English
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All Our Yesterdays
$15.99 Add to cartFrom “one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy” (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war.
This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy fr- Author: Ginzburg, Natalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1628725087
- Language: English
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After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
$32.00 Add to cartIn this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed–why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why
- Series: Turning Points in Ancient History #12
- Author: Cline, Eric H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0691192138
- Language: English
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Across the River and Into the Trees
$18.00 Add to cartSoon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber!
A poignant tale of a revitalizing love that is found too late–the fleeting connection between an Italian countess and an injured American co- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 12 1996
- ISBN10: 0684825538
- Language: English
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Purgatory
$17.00 Add to cartThe second volume in Dante’s Divine Comedy
Beginning with Dante’s liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory – a mountain of nine levels, for- Series: Divine Comedy (Penguin Paperback)
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 399
- Publish Date: February 05 1985
- ISBN10: 0140444424
- Language: English
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Madeline and the Cats of Rome
$19.99 Add to cartMadeline visits Rome
The Paris skies are gray, so Miss Clavel and the twelve little girls are leaving for brighter weather—spring in Rome. Rome has wonderful sights to see and delicious things to e- Series: Madeline
- Author: Marciano, John Bemelmans
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0670062979
- Language: English
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Foucault’s Pendulum
$19.99 Add to cart“An encyclopedic detective story . . . An intellectual triumph.”–Anthony Burgess
“Foucault’s Pendulum is Eco’s magical mystery tour of the Western mind. . . . With this book, Eco puts himself in the g
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0063279657
- Language: English
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The Seamstress of Sardinia
$17.00 Add to cartA bestselling Italian writer makes her American debut with this delightful dramedy of manners, family, romance, and fashion that is set on the island of Sardinia at the end of the nineteenth century–
- Author: Pitzorno, Bianca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0063271699
- Language: English
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