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 The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy)Best Price: $16.38 Another wow from Rick Atkinson. Loved this book as much as an Army at Dawn. Can hardly wait for... |  Murder of a Medici PrincessBest Price: $14.05 Caroline Murphy's new book is another "must have" for lovers of remarkable... |  Lidia's Italy: 140 Simple and Delicious Recipes from the Ten Places in Italy Lidia Loves MostBest Price: $19.92 After watching an episode of the tv series that this book is based on, I ordered two books - one... |  1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the RenaissanceBest Price: $13.97 I read 1421 a few years ago, and am sympathetic to Gavin Menzies thesis that the Chinese... |  Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in ItalyBest Price: $7.81 This is a fun escape into a new venture. The author takes the reader along to the new life he... |
 Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented ArchitectureBest Price: $6.99 No, this isn't a book about an Italian guy with a big head, although Filippo Brunelleschi... |  The House of Medici: Its Rise and FallBest Price: $6.99 did you know the king of England, the King of France, the King of Spain and the Medici's were... |  The Lost PaintingBest Price: $3.44 A wonderful book, a great story is doubly enriched with the finely drawn characters of the... |  Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and LoveBest Price: $3.87 I had expected a fictionalized narrative following the daughter of the famous astronomer. What I... |  The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany (Most Beautiful Villages)Best Price: $20.00 i orignially purchased this book as a resource for a paper i was doing on tuscany, but when i... |
 Marco Polo: From Venice to XanaduBest Price: $15.88 The subject matter is interesting, but the narrative and analysis are on the level of a... |  The Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $4.48 A good introduction to Medieval, Renaissance, and Mannerist artists written by someone who lived... |  A History of VeniceBest Price: $13.74 I had seen this book in many bookstores and I finally purchased it with great excitement upon... |  Under the Tuscan SunBest Price: $0.43 This is a wonderful, wonderful, journey, adventure, book. By all means, it should be... |  Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' MediciBest Price: $14.90 No one volume life of Lorenzo can ever be comprehensive because he is a significant figure in... |
 Inside the Vatican (National Geographic)Best Price: $6.28 I bought the book because I am interested in Italian Renaissance art. In this aspect it is a... |  Michelangelo and the Pope's CeilingBest Price: $3.00 We saw the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican and I wanted to know more about the person and the era... |  Midnight in SicilyBest Price: $8.93 I read this book with pleasure and excitement. If you love Italy or are planning a trip to... |  The ItaliansBest Price: $6.45 This elegant, but dated book appears to fit Mr. Barzini's pessimistic generation. Which after... |  Leonardo Da Vinci: 1452-1519: The Complete Paintings and Drawings (Taschen 25th Anniversary)Best Price: $44.10 After a recent trip to Italy I scoured the museums there for some good books on the famous... |
 The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century MillerBest Price: $8.25 The Cheese and the Worms has got to be the most ridiculously over-rated academic work of history... |  The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery DecodedBest Price: $12.20 I am not a historian or expert in the topic, but as a lay person, this is one of the most... |  Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day (5 Denarii)Best Price: $11.22 This text is hysterical! I laughed out loud repeatedly while reading it. There is a wealth of... |  On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian JournalBest Price: $8.82 If you are even remotely thinking about going to Sicily, you should read this wonderful book. ... |  Michelangelo (XL Series)Best Price: $126.00 Excellent pictures of the frescoes, inadequate coverage of sculptures. This book is unrivaled... |
 La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian MindBest Price: $6.78 While this book claims to be a "hilarious tour of Italy", and that it covers... |  In TuscanyBest Price: $10.99 This is another of Francis Mayes books that I have thoroghly enjoyed. I am a bit prejudiced,... |  The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796Best Price: $15.50 A sweeping, first-of-its-kind history of the creation of modern Italy The birth of modern Italy... |  The Stones of FlorenceBest Price: $8.14 Mary McCarthy didn't just love Florence, she truly knew it. The good, the bad, the ugly, the... |  The Travels of Marco PoloBest Price: $6.74 Marco Polo purportedly spent 17 years travelling to the courts of Kublai Khan and, as an... |
 Saint Francis of AssisiBest Price: $7.32 Chesterton surprise us again with this formidable short essay about the life of Saint Francis of... |  The Agricola and The Germania (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.50 I enjoyed this translation greatly. The translations are easy to read in Modern English, are... |  The Rage and The PrideBest Price: $4.98 Fallaci here is not telling the world anything that it does not know...she is just reminding... |  VespaBest Price: $10.05 Although the book is deceptively small, its contents are very comprehensive. Contained between... |  Rome and Environs: An Archaeological GuideBest Price: $15.65 This book is an English translation of Filippo Coarelli's three volumes on Roman archaeolgy... |
 The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the RenaissanceBest Price: $14.63 Amazon shipped this book in a timely manner. Customer service was great but I did have to call... |  The Fall of Rome: And the End of CivilizationBest Price: $8.95 One might suspect a story of pottery shards to be a bit dry, but this is absolutley not the... |  The Italian RenaissanceBest Price: $8.92 The text by mr. Plumb is very entertaining. The images do not add much to the value of the book.... |  Man-Eaters of Kumaon (Oxford India Paperbacks)Best Price: $6.22 In the early twentieth century, British held South Asia was terroized by a number of infamous... |  Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern ItalyBest Price: $18.60 In the early 1970s, political power was decentralized in Italy. The power once held by the... |
 Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church (Guide to Imagery Series)Best Price: $14.05 Although I agree with most of the comments made by the others who have offered critiques, I... |  The Miracle of Castel di Sangro: A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of ItalyBest Price: $6.99 This book really grasped my attention. The story throughtout the chapters captured my... |  War in Val D'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944Best Price: $7.50 This is an exceptional book which bears precious witness to the way WWII brought out both the... |  Winning at All Costs: A Scandalous History of Italian SoccerBest Price: $4.37 It's hard to explain how good this book is. When I was searching for a soccer book, I wanted one... |  Venice from the Ground Up (From the Ground Up)Best Price: $11.73 After reading throughfully several books of Venice (both English and Spanish) this one provided... |
 Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944--1945Best Price: $19.05 Rick Atkinson's coverage of the war in Italy through the capture of Rome was an excellent read,... | The Italian Renaissance Best Price: $8.85 The text by mr. Plumb is very entertaining. The images do not add much to the value of the book.... | Winning at All Costs: A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer Best Price: $3.98 It's hard to explain how good this book is. When I was searching for a soccer book, I wanted one... |  Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied ItalyBest Price: $7.99 I group this book with Eric Newby's "Love and War in the Appenines" for unsentimental... | War in Val D'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944 Best Price: $7.50 This is an exceptional book which bears precious witness to the way WWII brought out both the... |
 A Concise History of Italy (Cambridge Concise Histories)Best Price: $19.49 I found this book to be unreadable. It's very dense and hard to read and I read a lot of books... |  Gucci by GucciBest Price: $72.69 This book is incredible! Your personal library is vacant if you are a high-end fashion lover and... |  The City of Falling AngelsBest Price: $1.25 A friend gave this book to me as I was headed off to Venice for vacation. I had no expectations... |  The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio MasterpieceBest Price: $12.33 I suppose the story of a long-lost masterpiece could be interesting. This tale, however, was not... | |
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