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 The Patience of the Spider (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries)Best Price: $6.75 "The Patience Of The Spider" by Andrea Camilleri. Translated by Stephen Sartarelli.... |  Foucault's PendulumBest Price: $4.50 After reading The Name of the Rose and enjoying it quite a bit, I was interested to try... |  The Name of the Rose: including the Author's PostscriptBest Price: $2.85 This book reminds me of the line "I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out."... |  On UglinessBest Price: $23.95 THIS BOOK SEES ART FROM ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW TAKING A DISTANCE FROM DECORATION AND BEAUTY ... |  History of BeautyBest Price: $19.90 Seems to be a reworking of earlier books like Arthur Marwick's book BEAUTY IN HISTORY. To... |
 Italian Stories: A Dual-Language BookBest Price: $7.75 It is hard to find dual language books, and they aren't always good when you do find them. This... |  If on a winter's night a travelerBest Price: $3.75 This superb work of fiction is a bit confusing at first but totally engrossing as you get into... |  Rounding the MarkBest Price: $7.14 Cameleri - or should I say his translator- continues his portrayal of an Italian Police... |  Eleven Short Stories/Undici Novelle (A Dual-Language Book)Best Price: $7.59 Luigi Pirandello, the 1934 Nobel laureate for literature,created some delightful and surprising... |  The Baron in the TreesBest Price: $5.99 Most young boys, presented with a plateful of boiled snails for dinner and forced to eat them,... |
 CosmicomicsBest Price: $7.00 I don't quite know what I was expecting with this book, but this just wasn't it. I was looking... |  The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $3.98 Choosing which translation of Dante's Divine Comedy to read is a very subjective and personal... |  Inferno (Modern Library Classics)Best Price: $6.17 Choosing which translation of Dante's Divine Comedy to read is a very subjective and personal... |  A Modern Reader's Guide to Dante's the Divine ComedyBest Price: $11.20 A few years ago I read the prose translation of the Divine Comedy by John D. Sinclair. From the... |  The Prince (Cliffs Notes)Best Price: $2.50 Clearly, in my opinion, this book should be purchased along with 'The Prince' for first time... |
 Six Memos for the Next Millennium/the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1985-86 (Vintage International)Best Price: $6.95 Six Memos for the Next Millennium is a collection of lectures Italo Calvino had intended to... |  Italian FolktalesBest Price: $13.13 This was a childhood favorite, and it remains today. As my family's old copy fell apart, I... |  Little Novels of SicilyBest Price: $8.48 The perfect book for the avid reader, these are well written and enjoyable. These tales bring a... |  Marcovaldo: or the Seasons in the CityBest Price: $5.69 Calvino's ability to capture topics of humanity is relevant for people of all ages. In this... |  BaudolinoBest Price: $0.50 To be sure, Baudolino is as fine an adventure from a different time and place as can be found.... |
 Difficult LovesBest Price: $7.02 This is a fantastic collection of stories. I read it at the same time that I was reading very... |  The Divine Comedy: PurgatoryBest Price: $1.84 Mark Musa has produced an extremely readable translation of a text that at times can be next to... |  Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance FlorenceBest Price: $8.59 This is a book about the politics of Renaissance Florence, not a book about religion or... |  Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media PopulismBest Price: $4.49 This is a collection of columns and a few speeches by a noted scholar and novelist of the... |  Italy: The Best Travel Writing from the New York TimesBest Price: $27.18 I was unprepared of the size of this book. I expected a medium-sized volume of writing, but... |
 To Each His Own (New York Review Books Classics)Best Price: $7.96 For me--raised on Sherlock Holmes--this novel, first published 1968, is not a detective novel in... |  LibrariesBest Price: $63.33 A picture is worth a thousand words! This book says so much and yet there are only a handful of... |  Short Stories in Italian: New Penguin Parallel Text (New Penguin Parallel Texts)Best Price: $5.87 I was hoping for a quality of book that I can read and reread for practice for a long time. The... |  Voice of the Violin (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries)Best Price: $0.30 These Camillieri mysteries are a refreshing break from more serious stuff. At least,any book... |  The Key to The Name of the Rose: Including Translations of All Non-English Passages (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)Best Price: $15.26 After reading The Name of the Rose with few helps, discovering this book was quite wonderful. ... |
 The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno (Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Reprint Series)Best Price: $11.68 I found this edition of Dante's most famous book of the Divine Comedy to be excellent in all... |  The Terra-Cotta Dog: An Inspector Montalbano MysteryBest Price: $3.89 Inspector Salvo Montalbano of Vig?ta gets an urgent call from his best friend Greg the pimp they... |  The Periodic TableLike other reviewers, I sometimes found the science in this book a bit hard to follow. But... |  Inferno (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $4.36 for great translation of the Inferno I far prefer the fairly recent The Inferno version done by... |  The Divine Comedy Part 3: Paradise (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $5.01 A window into the medieval world. Read it: the minds of the Middle Ages were not nearly so... |
 Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays (Twentieth Century Classics)Best Price: $7.10 Luigi Pirandello's 1921 play "Six Characters in Search of an Author" ("Sei... |  Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book)Best Price: $3.16 Many readers will probably be attracted to books like these after reading and enjoying Eco's... |  The Moon and the Bonfires (New York Review Books Classics)Best Price: $7.37 This book was published in Italy in 1950. It's narrated by a man who returns to his village in... |  The Divine Comedy: Paradise (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.27 This was required reading for a graduate course in medieval history. "The Divine... |  Purgatory (Modern Library Classics)Best Price: $6.76 This was required reading for a graduate course in medieval history. "The Divine... |
 Orlando Furioso (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $5.72 In 778 Charlemagne made an incursion over the Pyrenees into Spain. Needing to take his army to... |  ParadisoBest Price: $24.31 I know there are countless versions of Dante's epic, however, Hollander does the best job in not... |  That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana (New York Review Books Classics)Best Price: $7.70 First off, DO NOT READ THE $#%@ing INTRODUCTIONS. This is not an easy book to get through - but... |  The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaBest Price: $151.58 This biography of Giuseppe de Lampedusa is a fine book in its own right, but its greater merit... |  The Wine-Dark Sea (New York Review Books Classics)Best Price: $2.52 "The Wine-Dark Sea" is a collection of thirteen stories written by Leonardo Sciascia... |
 The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven ViscountBest Price: $4.49 The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount were my first reads of Calvino's. These two... |  The Mysterious Flame of Queen LoanaBest Price: $0.11 but the second third is tediously repetitive unless you're fascinated by fifty year old Italian... |  Discourses on Livy (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $7.24 Niccolo Machiavelli, (1469-1527), writes the greatest treatise on keeping a republic vibrant by... |  On LiteratureBest Price: $3.78 What Umberto Eco offers in this collection of essays is a publication of illuminating and useful... |  Venice, Cit? Excelentissima: Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin SanudoBest Price: $35.74 When Venice was both a center of Renaissance culture and a gathering place for news from around... |
 History: A NovelBest Price: $13.99 I'm an older guy who reads mostly nonfiction--history, biographies and current events books. I... |  Conversations in SicilyBest Price: $7.71 Conversations in Sicily is Vittorini's masterpiece. Each and every word has such great depth.... | |||
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