General Books


The Story of San Michele Best Price: $49.98 I read this wonderful book as a young man back in the sixties and I have just ordered a new...	Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The Most Remarkable Invention Of The 19th Century & The Amateur Inventor Whose Genius Sparked A Revolution Best Price: $0.85 This is a great Biography of Marconi, who is the father of radio. I never read Marconi's story...	Enzo Ferrari: The Man, The Cars, The Races, The Machine this is the most comprehensive book on the subject that i have read. it is a cross-section of...	Tuscany: How to Find Great Wines Off the Beaten Track (Discovering Wine Country) Best Price: $12.56 Waldin has done it again! A terrific read. This is a writer that really knows his subject....	Italian Emigrants, Italian Immigrants: The Labella Family of Avigliano, Potenza, Basilicata, Italy and Port Chester, New York, United States of America Best Price: $14.49 When the answer "they were your grandparents" is not enough, read Italian Emigrants,...



Vesuvius, A.D. 79: The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum Best Price: $17.41 This is a very nice little book on the subject. It would make a particularly useful...	The Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi Best Price: $24.99	Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family Best Price: $42.89 A very well documented book with a deep knowledge of the social conditions of Venice in the...	Roman Social History (Classical Foundations) Best Price: $22.37 People come to the growing field of Roman social history from a variety of backgrounds, often...	Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries (Middle Ages Series) Best Price: $21.73 The darkest thing about the so-called Dark Ages is the darkness of our ignorance of them. I'm...



UnCivil Liberties: Italian Americans Under Siege during World War II Best Price: $27.26	Fountains of Rome Best Price: $147.61	Cassiodorus Jordanes and the History of the Gothic: Studies in a Migration Myth Best Price: $53.95 A study in the myth of the origins and early history of the Goths as told in the Getica written...	Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence: The Diaries of Buonaccorso Pitti and Gregorio Dati Best Price: $10.29 If readers find Pitti's memoir rambling and not very Florentine in its focus, they should turn...	History of Venice, Volume 3, Books IX-XII (The I Tatti Renaissance Library) Best Price: $29.95 Pietro Bembo (1470?1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church,...

The Great Earthquake: America Comes to Messinas Rescue Best Price: $29.00 The earthquake that struck the Messina Straits on December 28, 1908, was Europe?s most powerful...	John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy Best Price: $22.56 John Hawkwood was fourteenth-century Italy's most notorious and successful soldier. A man known...	Few Returned: Twenty-Eight Days on the Russian Front, Winter 1942-1943 Best Price: $15.62 Corti who was a twenty-one year old artillery officer on the Stalingrad front, was part of the...	History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape Emilio Sereni's classic work is now available in an English language edition. History of the...	Letizia Battaglia: Passion, Justice, Freedom--Photgraphs of Sicily Best Price: $24.95 With an impending trip to Sicily in sight, a friend lent me this staggering portfolio of...

Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism Best Price: $16.45 Germany's and Italy's belated national unifications continue to loom large in contemporary...	Fatal Decision: Anzio and the Battle for Rome Best Price: $24.97 This is one of the finest accounts of a military campaign that I've ever read. Carlo D'este is a...	Monte Cassino: The Story of the Most Controversial Battle of World War II Best Price: $2.43 I've spent a lot of time in Roccasecca, where von Senger was headquartered, and Hapgood and...	The Marche (Heritage Guides) Best Price: $12.50 There are very few books available that specifically address the Marche area but this is one...	The New Men Best Price: $5.27 Presenting many of the challenges and blessings of the experience of priestly formation, Murphy...

Essays and Dialogues (The I Tatti Renaissance Library) Best Price: $20.75 From humble beginnings, Bartolomeo Scala (1430?1497) trained in the law and rose to prominence...	Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel (Italian & Italian American Studies) Best Price: $34.94 This biography reveals the life of one of the American left's most controversial and...	A Traveller's Companion to Venice (The Traveller's Companion Series) Best Price: $10.35 I read this book cover-to-cover before, during, and after a recent trip to Venice. I have to...	Italian Panel Painting in the Duecento & Trecento Best Price: $54.49 The middle of the thirteenth century spearheaded a proliferation of panel painting in Italy and...	Lenci Dolls

Art, Memory, and Family in Renaissance Florence Best Price: $124.73 Art, Memory and Family in Renaissance Florence examines the relationship between the production...	Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $6.53 Artists like Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, Durer, and Michelangelo and works such as the Last...	Fra Angelico (Temporis Collection) (Temporis Collection) Best Price: $15.01 The painter Fra Angelico was among the first to use the techniques of perspective proposed by...	The Italian City Republics (3rd Edition) Best Price: $42.34 Daniel Waley's highly enjoyable book has been revised, updated, expanded and reset. In its new...	Early Modern Italy: A Social History (Social History of Europe (Routledge (Firm)).) Best Price: $34.02 Early Modern Italy: A Social History is a fascinating examination of society in Italy from the...

Verona: Practical Guide (Bonechi Travel Guides) Best Price: $6.15	Rome (Dictionaries of Civilizations) Best Price: $13.49 This pocket-size reference draws on the vast treasures of this ancient civilization to...	Nightmare in Bari: The World War II Liberty Ship Poison Gas Disaster and Coverup Best Price: $19.49 "Nightmare in Bari" is virtually a textbook example of how not to write history....	Baltimore's Own Little Italy Artist: the Artwork of Tony DeSales Best Price: $7.49 Rita D. French, Perrin L. French and Irvin F. Lin Baltimore's Own Little Italy Artist: The...	Women of Shadows: A Study of the Wives and Mothers of Southern Italy

The Appian Way: From Its Foundation to the Middle Ages (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum) Best Price: $23.25 Enhanced with the breathtakingly beautiful color photography of Franco Mammana and expertly...	Pulcherrimae Strade: Contemporary Art in Historical Spaces Best Price: $19.99 Friuli Venezia Giulia is a region in the north-east of Italy, bordered by Austria and...	The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue, and Survival Best Price: $18.32 If you want to know a brief and condensed history of the situation of Jews in Italy during the...	Cosmatesque Ornament: Flat Polychrome Geometric Patterns in Architecture Best Price: $39.99 A thorough and focused academic treatise on Cosmati tiling. Living in Rome I was interested in...	Italian Medieval Armies 1000-1300 (Men-at-Arms) Best Price: $6.96 A detailed men-at-arms title examining an obscure but vital piece of European history, it is...

Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism Best Price: $40.68 In 1909 the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published the founding manifesto of Italian Futurism,...	Art of the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies: The Panza Collection Best Price: $10.29	Architecture in Italy, 1500-1600 (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art) Best Price: $34.08 Wolfgang Lotz's Architecture in Italy, 1500-1600 is a wonderful introduction and survey of the...	Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance Best Price: $6.00	The "Other Tuscany": Essays in the History of Lucca, Pisa, and Siena During the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries (Studies in Medieval Culture) Best Price: $15.00

The Likeness of Venice: A Life of Doge Francesco Foscari Best Price: $28.22 Venice has a unique place in western civilization. Understanding the issues and motivations that...	The Renaissance Popes: Statesmen, Warriors and the Great Borgia Myth Best Price: $11.98 This is one of the worst - if not the worst - work of history that I have ever read. It is...	Paintings in the Vatican Best Price: $325.00 This is the kind of book you can offer to any delicate person (such as your mother in law). Be...	Gericault in Italy Best Price: $76.75 A painter of outstanding originality who was considered one of the founders of the French...	Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment' (Masterpieces of Western Painting) Best Price: $6.00 Michelangelo?s Last Judgment was the most criticized and discussed painting of the sixteenth...

The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena Best Price: $27.49 Saint Catherine of Siena (1347?1380) has become a defining figure in the history of medieval...	Blood of My Blood: The Dilemma of the Italian-Americans (Essay Series (Guernica), 26) Best Price: $7.27 excellent service and an excellent book if you are an italian american or not. very informative...

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