Cultural Region/Italy
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Verdigris
$19.95 Read moreAt the tail end of the 1960s, the thirteen-year-old Michelino spends
his summers at his grandparents’ modest estate in Nasca, near Lake Maggiore,
losing himself in the tales of horror, adventure,- Author: Mari, Michele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1913505901
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Pocket Rome
$13.99 Read moreLonely Planet’s Pocket Rome is your guide to the city’s best experiences and local life – neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Marvel at the ancient forum and Colosseum, toss a coin into the Trevi Fountain
- Series: Pocket Guide
- Author: Hardy, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 30, 2023
- ISBN10: 1838694129
- Language: English
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The Minotaur at Calle Lanza
$19.95 Add to cartIn the fall of 2020, as the pandemic raged around the globe, Zito Madu traveled to Venice for a writing fellowship. There, he found a deserted, silent, but still beautiful city, “one of those extraord… [more below]
- Author: Madu, Zito
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 185
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1953368662
- Language: English
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The Dry Heart
$12.95 Read moreThe Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.” As the tale–a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness–proceeds, t… [more below]
- Author: Ginzburg, Natalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 25 2019
- ISBN10: 0811228789
- Language: English
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Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
$18.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling, award winning story of the construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence and the Renaissance genius who reinvented architecture to build it.
On August 1- Author: King, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 1620401932
- Language: English
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Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World
$32.00 Add to cartThe story of Messalina – third wife of the emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world
The image of the empress Messalina as a ruthless, sexually insatiable- Author: Cargill-Martin, Honor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 6, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363955
- Language: English
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Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
$16.95 Add to cartSister of Caligula. Wife of Claudius. Mother of Nero. The story of Agrippina, at the center of imperial power for three generations, is the story of the Julio-Claudia dynasty–and of Rome itself, at i… [more below]
- Author: Southon, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1643136100
- Language: English
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Italian American: Red Sauce Classics and New Essentials: A Cookbook
$35.00 Add to cartIACP AWARD FINALIST – Reimagine Italian-American cooking, with more than 125 recipes rich with flavor and nostalgia from the celebrated husband-and-wife chef team of Michelin-starred Don Angie in New … [more below]
- Author: Rito, Angie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 26, 2021
- ISBN10: 0593138007
- Language: English
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Pizza Night: 60+ Recipes for Date Nights, Lazy Nights, and Party Nights
$19.95 Add to cart60+ delicious pizza recipes for any night of the week.
Explore the delicious world of pizza with this fun cookbook. Deborah Kaloper provides over 60 incredible recipes, from Neapolitan classics and de- Author: Kaloper, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1922754455
- Language: English
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Pasta Veloce: Irresistibly Fast Recipes from Under the Tuscan Sun
$35.00 Read moreFrom Frances Mayes, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, Pasta Veloce offers the most delicious 30-minute Tuscan pasta recipes.
Frances Mayes is known for transporting r- Author: Mayes, Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1419763148
- Language: English
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Bulfinch’s Mythology: Stories of Gods and Heroes
$14.99 Add to cartAn easily understood reference guide to the deities of Greek and Roman mythology.
Stories of Gods and Heroes, originally published in 1855, is the first of three works that make up Bulfinch’s Mytholog- Series: Word Cloud Classics
- Author: Bulfinch, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1626864691
- Language: English
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Great Escapes Italy. the Hotel Book
$60.00 Read moreTo travel through Italy is as close as one gets to being in paradise. For centuries, writers, artists, architects, and merchants have been drawn here, inspired by the beauty of Venice, Florence, Naple
- Author: Taschen, Angelika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: July 30 2019
- ISBN10: 3836578050
- Language: English
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Bitter Honey: Recipes and Stories from Sardinia
$45.00 Add to cartGuild of Food Writer’s Awards, Highly Commended in ‘First Book’ category (2021)
In Bitter Honey, seasoned chef Letitia Clark invites us into her home on one of the most beautiful islands in the Medite- Author: Clark, Letitia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 28, 2020
- ISBN10: 1784882771
- Language: English
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Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal
$21.00 Add to cartWith a celebrated food writer as host, a delectable history of Roman cuisine and the world–served one dish at a time. Now in paperback.
“There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseu- Author: Viestad, Andreas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147824
- Language: English
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Poems New and Collected
$18.99 Add to cartPoems New and Collected: 1957-1997 is the definitive, complete collection of poetry by Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska.
Described by Robert Hass as “unquestionably one of the great living E… [more below]
- Author: Szymborska, Wislawa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 16, 2000
- ISBN10: 0156011468
- Language: English
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Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
$26.00 Read moreThe tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman
“When we think of ancient Rome, it’s impossible not to think of Christianity, one of its most- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Freeman, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300256647
- Language: English
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Lost on Me
$18.00 Add to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
A bestseller and award-winner in Veronica Raimo’s native Italy, Lost on Me is an irreverent and hilariously inverted bildungsroman from one of the mos
- Author: Raimo, Veronica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 0802162045
- Language: English
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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
$18.00 Add to cartAn entertaining and informative look at the unique culture of crime, punishment, and killing in Ancient Rome
In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common–murder. Romulus killed Rem- Author: Southon, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1419753061
- Language: English
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A Room with a View
$12.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1908, A Room with a View portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living in Italy. Caught up in a world of social snobbery, Forster’s heroine, Lucy Honeychurch, finds … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Forster, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679724761
- Language: English
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Saving Madonna
$13.99 Add to cart“We are all saving our country, can’t you see? They might be fighting for our country’s very existence as a free nation. But I am fighting for what comes afterwards. I want to fight to save the madonn
- Author: Bristow, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: November 2, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988791904
- Language: English
