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Alexander, Sidney History of Italy : Francesco Guicciardini MacMillan Company 1969 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1146086. (keywords: Italy) (filed under: Italy ) *
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Ambrosini, Luisa; Willis, Mary Secret Archives of the Vatican Little, Brown and Company 1969 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1138398. (filed under: Italy ) *
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Bell, Rudolph M. How To Do It: Guides To Good Living For Renaissance Italians 1999 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1076154. ISBN #0226042103 / 9780226042107. (filed under: Italy ) *
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Bell, Rudolph M. How To Do It: Guides To Good Living For Renaissance Italians 1999 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1076154. ISBN #0226042103 / 9780226042107. (filed under: Italy ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary How to Do It shows us sixteenth-century Italy from an entirely new perspective: through manuals which were staples in the households of middlebrow Italians merely trying to lead better lives. Addressing challenges such as how to conceive a boy, the manuals offered suggestions such as tying a tourniquet around your husband's left testicle. Or should you want to goad female desires, throw 90 grubs in a liter of olive oil, let steep in the sun for a week and apply liberally on the male anatomy. Bell's journey through booklets long dismissed by scholars as being of little literary value gives us a refreshing and surprisingly fun social history. "Lively and curious reading, particularly in its cascade of anecdote, offered in a breezy, cozy, journalistic style." Lauro Martines, Times Literary Supplement " Bell's fascinating book is a window on a lost world far nearer to our own than we might imagine. . . . How pleasant to read his delightful, informative and often hilarious book." Kate Saunders, The Independent "An extraordinary work which blends the learned with the frankly bizarre." The Economist "Professor Bell has a sly sense of humor and an enviably strong stomach. . . . He wants to know how people actually behaved, not how the Church or philosophers or earnest humanists thought they should behave. I loved this book." Christopher Stace, Daily Telegraph
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Bellocchi, Ugo Reggio Emilia La Provincia " Lambrusca" Venti Secoli Di Vitivinicoltura Fra Enza E Secchia Reggio Emilia 1982 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or964286. (filed under: Italy ) *
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Berendt, John The City of Falling Angels Penguin Books 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1057838. ISBN #0143036939 / 9780143036937. (filed under: Italy ) *
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Berendt, John The City of Falling Angels Penguin Books 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1057838. ISBN #0143036939 / 9780143036937. (filed under: Italy ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The author of the record-breaking bestseller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil unveils the enigmatic Venice as only he can Twelve years ago, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil exploded into a monumental success, residing a record-breaking four years on the New York Times bestseller list longer than any work of fiction or nonfiction had before and turning John Berendt into a household name. The City of Falling Angels is Berendt s first book since Midnight , and it immediately reminds one what all the fuss was about. Turning to the magic, mystery, and decadence of Venice, Berendt gradually reveals the truth behind a sensational fire that in 1996 destroyed the historic Fenice opera house. Encountering a rich cast of characters, Berendt tells a tale full of atmosphere and surprise as the stories build, one after the other, ultimately coming together to portray a world as finely drawn as a still-life paintin
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Bottinelli, Livilla Carthusian Monastery Of Pavia paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1109408. (filed under: Italy ) *
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Brucker, Gene (Editor) Society Of Renaissance Florence: A Documentary Study 1971 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1103325. ISBN #0061316075 / 9780061316074. (filed under: Italy ) *
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Brucker, Gene (Editor) Society Of Renaissance Florence: A Documentary Study 1971 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1103325. ISBN #0061316075 / 9780061316074. (filed under: Italy ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary First published in 1971 by Harper Row, The Society of Renaissance Florence is an invaluable collection of 132 original Florentine documents dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and covering a wide range of subjects from taxes to social mobility, to family, death, and civic life, to violence, crime, and morality. Also included are seldom seen documents addressing the state of the poor and such groups as Jews, heretics, sorcerers, and homosexuals. 'I have made a conscious effort to select material which reveals something about the emotions, passions, and temperaments of Renaissance Florentines. 'These documents are examples of the raw material with which the historian works, as he attempts to describe social structures, patterns of behavior, and value systems. They should convey some sense of the complexity of this society, and of the formidable task which confronts the student who seeks to generalize about its character... They can serve as models for the student interested in the problems of urban history in pre-industrial Europe.' - From the Preface
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Cianchetta, Romeo Assisi: Art And History in The Centuries paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1109410. (filed under: Italy ) *
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Cornelisen, Ann Women of the Shadows Atlantic/Little, Brown and Company 1976 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1167063. (filed under: Italy ) *
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Dolci, Danilo Report From Palermo 1970 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104322. ISBN #0670002887 / 9780670002887. (filed under: Italy ) *
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Dolci, Danilo Report From Palermo 1970 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104322. ISBN #0670002887 / 9780670002887. (filed under: Italy ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Not only a literary but also a sociological masterpiece. It is a cross-section of misery that shocks and shames and yet, curiously, exhilarates. For one after another of these exploited and downtrodden victims, a fire glows. They are waiting. From the introduction by Aldous Huxley: Palermo is a city of more than half a million inhabitants, of whom well over a hundred thousand live in conditions of what can only be described as Asiatic poverty...Dolci has set forth the statistics of this giant misery and has recorded in their own words how the inhabitants of the city's lower depths pass their distorted lives, what they do and think and feel. The book is absorbingly interesting and at the same time profoundly depressing, one might almost say, on a cosmic scale. For Palermo, of course, is in no way unique. All over the world there are hundreds of cities, thousands and tens of thousands of small towns and villages, where present conditions are at least as bad and where the future looks darker, the prospects for improvement seem incomparable worse...Sicily, after all, is a part of Italy, and Italy is a highly civilized country...Some day something will undoubtedly be done about those grisly slums and their chronically unemployed inhabitants. Meanwhile Dolci is doing what little a man of knowledge and good will..can do to mitigate the present wretchedness and to find out, systematically and scientifically, what needs to be done in the future and how that which needs to be done can be accomplished.
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Fasola, Umberto M.; Paluzzi, Carlo Galassi; Ingoldsby, Mary F. Catacomb of Domitilla and the Basilica of Saints Nereus and Achilleus Eidzioni Roma paperback. Clean text. B&W photos.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or576415. (keywords: ROMAN ROME CHURCHES HISTORY) (filed under: Italy ) *
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Franzoi, Umberto The Prisons of the Doge's Palace in Venice (Electa Art Guides) Electa 1997 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1166425. ISBN #8843561049 / 9788843561049. (filed under: Italy ) *
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Gumus, Dogan Ancient Ephesus paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107583. (filed under: Italy ) *
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Hodgson, Barbara Italy Out Of Hand: A Capricious Tour 2005 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1113773. ISBN #0811831469 / 9780811831468. (filed under: Italy ) *
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Hodgson, Barbara Italy Out Of Hand: A Capricious Tour 2005 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1113773. ISBN #0811831469 / 9780811831468. (filed under: Italy ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary With its genius for art and culture, there is no country in the world as wonderfully civilized and civilizing as Italy. But seething below this surface is a long and shadowy history of corruption, cruelty, and the generally bizarre. For centuries it has been overrun by waves of invaders, all contributing their own questionable bits of culture, and all wantonly adding to the confusion. So, how is a poor visitor supposed to make sense of this anarchic place? Co-creator of the cult favorite Paris Out of Hand , Barbara Hodgson has neatly brushed away the chaos and assembled an eclectic treasury of forgotten and overlooked oddities: long-lost popes, bloodthirsty mercenaries, tempestuous artists, and inexplicable follies. Italy Out of Hand is not a traditional guidebook, with hotel addresses and hours of operation. Rather, it is an idiosyncratic tour of a country that is too overwhelming and extravagant for most of us to comprehend without a little guidance. Illustrated with an equally eclectic selection of photographs, portraits, and art, Italy Out of Hand is the perfect companion for those who like their truths to be stranger than fiction.
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Lev, Elizabeth The Tigress Of Forli: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous And Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza De' Medici Mariner Books 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1167835. ISBN #0547844166 / 9780547844169. (filed under: Italy ) *
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Lovric, Michelle Venice: Tales Of The City 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1064255. ISBN #034911899X / 9780349118994. (filed under: Italy ) *
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Lovric, Michelle Venice: Tales Of The City 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1064255. ISBN #034911899X / 9780349118994. (filed under: Italy ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Elusive and fantastical, Venice is a many-layered confection of history. The writers here have captured what is most important to them in pieces ranging from the city's foundation up to the present time. The voices, entirely diverse, are both international and native: here we meet Hans Christian Andersen, Paolo Barbaro, Bernard Berenson, Mary Braddon, Casanova, Chekov, Thomas Coryate, Gabriele D'Annunzio, John Evelyn, Hans Habe, Hermann Melville, Claude Monet, Margaret Oliphant, Ezra Pound, Rainer Maria Rilke, Francesco Sansovino, Frances Trollope and Elio Zorzi. Variously a City of the Soul, The Watery City, The Merchant City, City Afloat, City at Play, The Cruel City, City of Courtesans, City of Arts, City of Flavours, The Haunted City and City of the Future, Venice is captured here in all her moods.
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Mathew, Arnold H. Life And Times Of Rodrigo Borgia: Pope Alexander VI Brentano's hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Cracked Hinge / still useable. Yellowing from age. Some Staining. Book #or888663. (filed under: Italy ) *
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Mayes, Frances Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life Broadway Books 2010 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1152523. ISBN #0767929829 / 9780767929820. (keywords: Italy, Tuscany, Social Life and Customs, Biography) (filed under: Italy ) *
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Mayes, Frances In Tuscany Broadway Books 2000 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1123164v1. ISBN #0767905350 / 9780767905350. (filed under: Italy ) *
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Mayes, Frances In Tuscany Broadway Books 2000 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1123164v1. ISBN #0767905350 / 9780767905350. (filed under: Italy ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the bestselling author whose memoirs Under the Sun and Bella Tuscany have captured the voluptuousness of Italian life comes a lavishly illustrated ode to the joys of Tuscany's people, food, landscapes, and art. In Tuscany celebrates the abundant pleasures of life in Italy as it is lived at home, at festivals, feasts, restaurants and markets, in the kitchen and on the piazza, in the vineyards, fields, and olive groves. Combining all-new essays by Frances Mayes and a chapter by her husband, poet Edward Mayes, with more than 200 full-color photos by photographer Bob Krist, each of this book's five sections highlights a signature aspect of Tuscan life: La Piazza--the locus of Italian village life. With photgraphs of the shop signs, the outdoor markets, medieval streets, people, their pets and their cars, and snippets of conversations overheard, Mayes reveals the life of the Piazza in her town of Cortona as well as out-of-the-way places such as Volterra, Asciano, Monte San Savino, and Castelmuzio. La Festa--the celebration. Essays and photos of feasts and celebrations, such as the Christmas dinner for twenty-seven at a neighbor's house and a donkey race around the church at Montepulciano Stazione, illustrate how the Tuscans celebrate the seasons--their open ways of friendship, their connection to nature, and most of all, their sense of abundance. Il Campo--the field. Here Edward Mayes evokes the deep sense of the shift of seasons as he picks olives before he and Frances head off to the olive oil mill and enjoy the first bruscette with new oil. La Cucina--the kitchen. An intimate view of the all-important role of the kitchen in Tuscan culture, including photographs of her own kitchen and gardens, menus from great local cooks, the elements of the Tuscan table, dishes with cultural and culinary notes on each, and, of course, delectable recipes. La Bellezza--the beauty. From the quality of the light falling on sublime landscapes in different seasons and Tuscan faces in moments of laughter to a silhouette of cypress trees in the early evening and a wild bird perched on a neigbor's head, In Tuscany features views of beauty that reveal the singular splendor of one of the world's best-loved and most artistic regions.
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