Cultural Region/Italy
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The Collected Stories
$20.00 Read moreThis reissue of Grace Paley’s classic collection–a finalist for the National Book Award–demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for her charact
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Paley, Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530289
- Language: English
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The Prince
$11.00 Read moreAt the end of an industrious political career in conflictriven Italy, the Florentine diplomat Niccol Machiavelli composed his masterpiece The Prince, a classic study of power and politics, and a manu… [more below]
- Series: Evergreens
- Author: Machiavelli, Niccolò
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1847493238
- Language: English
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician
$23.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “An excellent introduction to a critical period in the history of Rome. Cicero comes across much as he must have lived: reflective, charming and rather vain.”–The Wall Street Jo… [more below]
- Author: Everitt, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 06 2003
- ISBN10: 037575895X
- Language: English
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Images and Translations: The Etruscans Abroad
$65.00 Read moreProfessor Larissa Bonfante’s great gift was the ability to evoke, in a fresh, immediate, and convincing way, the experiences, beliefs, and thoughts of people living more than two thousand years ago. H
- Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures
- Author: Bonfante, Larissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 494
- Publish Date: May 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0472131974
- Language: English
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Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
$18.00 Read moreFrom acclaimed classical historian, author of Ghost on the Throne a high-stakes drama full of murder, madness, tyranny, perversion, with the sweep of history on the grand scale.
At the center, the tum- Author: Romm, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0307743748
- Language: English
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Purgatorio
$23.00 Add to cartJean Hollander, an accomplished poet, and Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher, whose joint translation of the Inferno was acclaimed as a new standard in English, bring their respec… [more below]
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0385497008
- Language: English
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The Complete Book of Pasta Sauces: The Best Italian Pestos, Marinaras, Ragùs, and Other Cooked and Fresh Sauces for Every Type of Pasta Imaginable
$27.99 Read moreTurn pasta night from drab to exciting, tired to fresh, with 175 recipes for the best and yummiest pasta sauces imaginable.
Everybody loves pasta–but not if it’s made the same way night after night.- Author: Bay, Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0760376476
- Language: English
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The Comedies
$16.95 Add to cart‘I thought you’d do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son’s having an affair.’
Terence’s comedies have provided plots and characters for comic drama from cl… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Terence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 11 2010
- ISBN10: 0199556032
- Language: English
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Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe
$28.99 Add to cartEmpires and Barbarians presents a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of m… [more below]
- Author: Heather, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0199892261
- Language: English
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The Winter Campaign in Italy 1943: Orsogna, San Pietro and Ortona
$25.00 Read moreA gripping tale of three crucial battles fought at the end of 1943 as Allied forces approached the Gustav Line in Italy.
After repulsing the German counter-attack at Salerno in September 1943, the US- Series: Campaign #395
- Author: Battistelli, Pier Paolo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1472855698
- Language: English
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Cape Matapan 1941: Cunningham’s Mediterranean Triumph
$25.00 Read moreThe first ever illustrated study of the largest and most significant clash between the Royal Navy and the Italian Regia Marina.
The Battle of Matapan witnessed the first use of decisive new technologi- Series: Campaign #397
- Author: Konstam, Angus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1472857232
- Language: English
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Gennaro’s Limoni: Vibrant Italian Recipes Celebrating the Lemon
$35.00 Read moreGennaro Contaldo’s love letter to his Amalfi Coast home
Ask a foodie about the Amalfi Coast and lemons immediately spring to mind. The sweet, aromatic, large and thick-skinned sfusato Amalfitano is th- Series: Gennaro’s Italian Cooking
- Author: Contaldo, Gennaro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1623718600
- Language: English
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The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
$23.99 Add to cartThe death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the … [more below]
- Author: Heather, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 11 2007
- ISBN10: 0195325419
- Language: English
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Chi Spacca: A New Approach to American Cooking
$35.00 Read moreFrom the James Beard Award-winning star of Netflix’s Chef’s Table A whole new approach to American cooking, one that blends the cutting edge culinary ethos of Los Angeles, the timeless flavors of Ital… [more below]
- Author: Silverton, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0525654658
- Language: English
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Rick Steves Snapshot Hill Towns of Central Italy: With Siena & Assisi
$14.99 Read moreWith Rick Steves, central Italy is yours to discover! This slim guide excerpted from Rick Steves Italy includes:
- Rick’s firsthand, up-to-date advice on the best sights, restaurants, hotels, and more i
- Author: Steves, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1641715251
- Language: English
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Venetian Gardens
$49.99 Read moreBritain’s pre-eminent gardener and most revered photographer take readers on a journey across Venice to show how the city’s complex history and fragile ecosystem create the perfect conditions for sple… [more below]
- Author: Don, Monty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 3791380095
- Language: English
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The Periodic Table: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartThe Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew.
It recounts, in clear, precise
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Levi, Primo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 04 1995
- ISBN10: 0805210415
- Language: English
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Coming Home to Sicily: Seasonal Harvests and Cooking from Case Vecchie
$35.00 Read moreSet on one of the oldest and largest estates in Sicily, is Case Vecchie, where all the food is either sustainably grown or wild. Here you’ll find the Anna Tasca Lanza Center for Sicilian Food and Cult… [more below]
- Author: Lanza, Fabrizia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1454952970
- Language: English
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Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova
$23.00 Read moreA fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch
“Fully succeeds in communicating that ‘vivid presentness, ‘ that ‘joyful eagerness’ fo- Author: Damrosch, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0300271026
- Language: English
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The Story of Greece and Rome
$16.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia, from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century
The magnificent civilization cr- Author: Spawforth, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0300251645
- Language: English
