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The Best Gardens in Italy: A Traveller's Guide
- ASIN: 0711234191
- ISBN: 0711234191
- Brand: Frances Lincoln
- Manufacturer: Frances Lincoln
Italy's gardens speak to us all. In the history of gardening they are the bridge between our world and the ancient world. Their harmony, symmetry and serenity are at once inimitable and universally copied. During the past few years Italy has awoken to a realization of its gardens. In a gardening renaissance, interesting new gardens are being create... [Read More]
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A Family Farm in Tuscany: Recipes and Stories from Fattoria Poggio Alloro
- UPC: 793318672839
- ASIN: 0940672839
- ISBN: 9780940672833
- Manufacturer: Shearer Publishing
Sarah Fioroni shares stories of family traditions and daily life as well as recipes in A Family Farm in Tuscany: Recipes and Stories from Fattoria Poggio Alloro. Fioroni provides a month-by-month glimpse of farm living as well as seasonal recipes that are simple yet so delicious, and easy to prepare in your kitchen. Three generations of Fioronis co... [Read More]
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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Oxford Paperbacks)
- ASIN: 019282144X
- ISBN: 019282144X
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
Well illustrated. References. Index. 183p. Both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and a text on how to interpret social history from the style of pictures in a given historical period.
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The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples
- ASIN: 0374533601
- ISBN: 0374533601
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A provocative, entertaining account of Italy's diverse riches, its hopes and dreams, its past and presentDid Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mistake? The question is asked and answered in a number of ways in The Pursuit of Italy, an engaging, original consider... [Read More]
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Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
- ASIN: 0691037388
- ISBN: 0691037388
- Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Their focus is on a unique experiment beg... [Read More]
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (Volume Two of The Liberation Trilogy)
- ASIN: 0805062890
- ISBN: 0805062890
- Brand: Brand: Henry Holt and Co.
- Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.
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Death in Venice
- ASIN: 0060576170
- ISBN: 9780060576172
- Brand: Ecco Press
- Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann - here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venic... [Read More]
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Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence
- ASIN: 0520244958
- ISBN: 0520244958
- Manufacturer: University of California Press
This compelling account of a wronged woman in Renaissance Florence, first published in 1986, is a fascinating view of Florentine society and its attitudes on love, marriage, class, and gender. Lusanna was a beautiful woman from a middle-class background who, in 1455, brought suit against Giovanni, her aristocratic lover, when she learned he had con... [Read More]
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The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy - Third Edition
- ASIN: 0691162409
- ISBN: 9780691162409
- Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions that existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and he analyses the ways of thinking and seeing that characterized this period of extraordinary artistic cr... [Read More]
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Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume II
- ASIN: 1305645057
- ISBN: 9781305645059
- Brand: Wadsworth Pub Co
- Manufacturer: Cengage Learning
GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE, VOLUME II, gives you the tools to master your course material. A unique scale feature will help you better visualize the actual size of the artworks shown in the book. Within each chapter, the "Framing the Era" overviews, timeline, extended captions, and the chapter summary section titled "Th... [Read More]
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The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican
- ASIN: 006146905X
- ISBN: 006146905X
- Brand: Blech, Benjamin/ Doliner, Roy
- Manufacturer: HarperOne
The Shocking Secrets of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ArtworkThe recent cleaning of the Sistine Chapel frescoes removed layer after layer of centuries of accumulated tarnish and darkness. The Sistine Secrets endeavors to remove the centuries of prejudice, censorship, and ignorance that blind us to the truth about one of the world's most famous and ... [Read More]
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
- ASIN: 0156345706
- ISBN: 9780156345705
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (A Harvest/HBJ Book)
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THE VILLA IN ITALY: Four strangers. An Italian villa. A will. (A Vintage Mystery)
- ASIN: B00KWEXCJ0
- Manufacturer: BELSYRE BOOKS
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Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction
- ASIN: 0495007250
- ISBN: 0495007250
- Manufacturer: Wadsworth/Thomson
What is the relationship between faith and reason? Find out in PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: AN INTRODUCTION. Because it's written to be easily understood no matter your background, this philosophy of religion textbook introduces you to the debate in a way you can understand. Whether it's the philosophical proofs for God's existence or using reason to ev... [Read More]
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Othello: Texts and Contexts (The Bedford Shakespeare Library)
- ASIN: 0312398980
- ISBN: 0312398980
- Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's
With a reprint of the Bevington edition of the play, this edition of Othello also contains six sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to help you see the many different approaches you can take with Shakespeare.
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Ovid's Amores, Book One: A Commentary (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture)
- ASIN: 0806141441
- ISBN: 0806141441
- Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
Students of Latin have long enjoyed the poetry of Ovid, but his love poems, aptly titled Amores, have proved more difficult to introduce into the classroom. Curricular changes and increased appreciation of sophisticated love poetry are finally making room for the Amores. This edition of the first book of the Amores—the only one available for both... [Read More]
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The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, Book 1)
- ASIN: 0142004715
- ISBN: 0142004715
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
“You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen...transporting. Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano.”—A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times best... [Read More]
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Lidia's Italy in America
- UPC: 884725701905
- ASIN: 0307595676
- ISBN: 0307595676
- Brand: Random House
- Manufacturer: Knopf
From one of America's most beloved chefs and authors, a road trip into the heart of Italian American cooking today—from Chicago deep-dish pizza to the Bronx's eggplant parm—celebrating the communities that redefined what we know as Italian food. As she explores this utterly delectable and distinctive cuisine, Lidia shows us that every kitchen ... [Read More]
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Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
- ASIN: 0143118420
- ISBN: 0143118420
- Brand: Riverhead Books
- Manufacturer: Riverhead Books
A transformational journey through Italy, India, and Bali searching for pleasure and devotion—the massive bestseller from the author of Big Magic and City of Girls! This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trapping... [Read More]
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Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
- ASIN: 1416540016
- ISBN: 1416540016
- Brand: Scribner
- Manufacturer: Scribner
Anthony Doerr has received many awards -- from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Library Association. Then came the Rome Prize, one of the most prestigious awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and with it a stipend and a writing studio in Rome for a year. Doerr learned of the award t... [Read More]
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