General Books


Italy: From Revolution To Republic, 1700 To The Present Best Price: $38.60 Good introduction to Italian history from 1700 to the present. Worth purchasing and reading.	Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence: The Diaries of Buonaccorso Pitti and Gregorio Dati Best Price: $12.95 Fast delivery and book in great condition! This is a great book to read it gives great insight...	The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration) Best Price: $6.98 I ordered this in August. Here it is September 28th and I haven't received it and you are...	Italian Frescoes: The Age of Giotto, 1280-1400 Best Price: $81.06 The book is phantastic. If someone love Italy and the masterpieces of the early Renaissance,...	Life in Ancient Rome Best Price: $6.39 I first discovered this book at a library the same summer I first took an interest in the Roman...



Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America Best Price: $3.51 This book offers a non-academic analysis of hip hop and why white kids love all aspects of hip...	The Broken Fountain: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition (Columbia Classics in Anthropology) (Columbia Classics in Anthropology) Best Price: $17.95 I have this book in a socialsience method class, and for that i am realy glad! This book is...	Iron Arm: The Mechanization of Mussolini's Army, 1920-1940 (Stackpole Military History) Best Price: $5.53 Although Sweet's book is based on the development of Italy's armored capabilities in the...	How to Achieve True Greatness (Penguin Great Ideas) Best Price: $4.22 This book is a classic in terms of philosophy and one that is certainly motivating. If only we...	The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome Best Price: $4.00 This book sounded fascinating: Rome, architechture, golden age, personalities, drama; what else...



Modernism and Fascism: The Sense of a Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler Best Price: $31.86 Palingenesis has been used for the exact reproduction of ancestral features by inheritance....	Edith Wharton's Italian Gardens Best Price: $29.61 This is not the ultimate writing on Italian gardens, nor the most sumptuos as a coffee-table...	Religions of Rome: Volume 2: A Sourcebook Best Price: $28.00 This book (volume 2 of a 2 volume work) is an excellent selection of passages writen by Romans...	Sicily: Three Thousand Years of Human History Best Price: $12.06 after several trips to sicily-----i wish i had read this before the first trip----------it gives...	The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Women in Culture and Society Series) Best Price: $19.28 I was hoping to find out about the remarkable life of Veronica Franco but instead was pummeled...

The Dark Heart of Italy Best Price: $8.00 Tobias Jones' "The Dark Heart of Italy" is an interesting read. I'd categorize it as...	Casa Nostra: A Home in Sicily Best Price: $8.71 I thoughly enjoyed this book & would highly recomend it.Its amusing & informative about...	Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, Vol. 2: High Baroque (Yale University Press Pelican History of Art) Best Price: $22.26 This is one of the most intelligent book I've ever read about art. It's simple, complete, full...	Medici: Story of a European Dynasty Best Price: $7.95 The Medici are probably the best-known and most illustrious Italian family - one that produced...	Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $6.68 Artists like Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, Durer, and Michelangelo and works such as the Last...

Renaissance Siena: Art for a City (National Gallery Company) Best Price: $39.94	Italy ABCs: A Book About the People and Places of Italy (Country Abcs) Best Price: $3.93 Italy ABCs Book	Atlas of Ancient Rome (Historical Atlas) Best Price: $12.49 Before I bought a book about roman history I have visually searched through at least 20 books,...	Italian Baroque Sculpture (World of Art) Best Price: $7.45 Italian baroque sculpture has enjoyed a controversial reputation, much like that of its chief...	The Italian Way Best Price: $4.64 This book is so basic it can only be a benifit to readers who know nothing at all about Italy or...

Italian Hours (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.00 The films 'Room With a View' and 'Wings of the Dove' make one wonder about the Italy reflected...	A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII Best Price: $8.65 I'm a bit skeptical about books which portray Pope Pius XII as a thorn in the side of Hitler,...	Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism Best Price: $2.73 To write about a subject as controversial as the Holocaust in Italy without becoming a...	The Pompeii Pop-up (Pop Up) Best Price: $17.66 This book will surely remain in my extensive collection of pop-up books. The text is...	Not Built in a Day: Exploring the Architecture of Rome Best Price: $10.08 Fabulous for those who have been to Rome. Mandates that you return to see it anew and deeper. ...

The Vatican Exposed: Money, Murder, and the Mafia Best Price: $17.99 This is a quick, easily-accessible, highly disturbing history of modern corruption inside the...	Criminal Man Best Price: $20.00 Though his theory of `the born criminal' is not likely to win many supporters today, Cesare...	God's Fool: The Life of Francis of Assisi (Perennial Library) Best Price: $6.90 Green's account grows out of lifelong admiration for Francis, but for him no tribute can be...	Dances with Luigi: A Grandson's Search for His Italian Roots Best Price: $8.00 I was happy to accompany Paul Paolicelli on his travels through Italy. His search for the man...	The Italian Renaissance Best Price: $8.75 Plumb's work is very readable and paints an overview of the Italian Renaissance with a broad...

The Beginnings of Rome: Italy From the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (Circa 1,000 to 264 B.C.) (Routledge History of the Ancient World) Best Price: $38.78 This volume of the Routledge History of the Ancient World by Cornell is simply brillant. I read...	Italian Witchcraft: The Old Religion of Southern Europe Best Price: $8.99 This book is really nice. It's true that in Italia a lot of people also if they are catholic...	Roman Sex: 100 B.C. to A.D. 250 Best Price: $17.48 What a great book. Things we should all know about the past, and not hide. I'm not in agreement...	Man of Blessing: A Life of St. Benedict Best Price: $5.94 In deceptively simple prose, the author paints a picture of St. Benedict and the Middle Ages...	Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence Best Price: $12.00 Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence is an account of lovers...

Ancient Greece: The Famous Monuments Past and Present Best Price: $18.85 An awesome book. While in Greece, the tour guide used one very similar to this as a reference....	The History of Italy Best Price: $18.00 First, Guicciardini: a fun read like Herodotus he is not - more like Thucydides in fact in his...	Rome Best Price: $26.37 Too many histories jump lightly and quickly from the grandeur of pagan Rome to the grandeur of...	Messerschmitts over Sicily: Diary of a Luftwaffe Fighter Commander (Stackpole Military History Series) Best Price: $3.80 Following the German defeat at El Alamein, Jagdgeschwader 77 was urgently dispatched to relieve...	Tuscany: How to Find Great Wines Off the Beaten Track (Discovering Wine Country) Best Price: $12.55 Waldin has done it again! A terrific read. This is a writer that really knows his subject....

Palladio (Architect and Society) Best Price: $8.55	The Renaissance Artist at Work: From Pisano to Titian (Icon Editions) Best Price: $19.99 Bruce Cole has a well-deserved reputation for high quality scholarship and exposition. This book...	Holy Anorexia Best Price: $15.55 This book typifies the problem of our patriarchal society. Not only is it poorly researched,...	Francis of Assisi: The Saint: Early Documents, Vol. 1 (Francis of Assisi: Early Documents) Best Price: $12.50 Scholars and lovers of Francis of Assisi will find much to treasure in this first volume of the...	Vasari's Lives of the Artists: Giotto, Masaccio, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian Best Price: $4.99 Vasari's colorful and detailed portraits of the most representative figures of Italian art trace...

Condottiere 1300-1500: Infamous Medieval Mercenaries (Warrior) Best Price: $10.60 Starting in the 14th Century, the petty warring states of Italy began to recruit mercenaries...	Art and Life in Renaissance Venice (Perspectives) Best Price: $14.87 This little paperback is packed with great information and great pictures. A must have for...	Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries (Middle Ages Series) Best Price: $21.86 The darkest thing about the so-called Dark Ages is the darkness of our ignorance of them. I'm...	Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy Best Price: $0.81 I think the main thing I came away with after reading this is that Lucrezia Borgia, she of...	Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (Studies in the History of Sexuality) Best Price: $7.75 This is the true story of a mother superior named Sister Benedetta Carlini and another nun from...

St. Peter's (Wonders of the World) Best Price: $10.95 Mary Beard is a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University. She is the editor of The Wonders...	Little Italy of the Bronx Book: Belmont & Arthur Avenue Best Price: $19.95 Having grown up in Litle Italy of the Bronx in the 50's & 60's, I eagerly bought this book....	A Brief History of Vatican II Best Price: $12.14 A key player remembers the event. Of course, two other key players who were there were chosen by...

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