Cultural Region/Italy
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Living in Tuscany. 40th Ed.
$35.00 Add to cartUnder the burning Tuscan sun roll marvelous hills, vineyards, and olive groves–all postcard-perfect landscapes nestling centuries-old towns, rural villas, and contadino farmhouses. We’ve tracked dow
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: René Stoeltie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 26 2023
- ISBN10: 3836594420
- Language: English
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Italian Grammar for Beginners Textbook + Workbook Included: Supercharge Your Italian with Essential Lessons and Exercises
$22.90 Add to cartLearn beginner Italian grammar painlessly with step-by-step lessons that focus on the essentials and help you build a learning habit.
Inside “Italian Grammar for Beginners” you’ll find:
- 25 beginner-l
- Author: Talk in Italian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1684893208
- Language: English
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A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance
$21.99 Add to cartFernando first sees Marlena across the Piazza San Marco and falls in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, he knows it is fate. He knows little English; she, a divorce
- Author: de Blasi, Marlena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1616202815
- Language: English
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The Life of St. Leonard of Port Maurice
$20.00 Add to cartSt. Leonard was born in 1676 at Port Maurice, near Genoa. He went to Rome to study, and there took on the Franciscan habit at the friary of St. Bonaventure. St. Leonard was zealous for souls, and want
- Author: Masserano, Giuseppe Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: August 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1957066377
- Language: English
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The Twelve Caesars
$16.00 Add to cart‘Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tempted creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the mo
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Suetonius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0140455167
- Language: English
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Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty
$18.95 Add to cartDrawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome’s Great Fire–and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman Empire
According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his- Series: Turning Points in Ancient History #9
- Author: Barrett, Anthony a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0691233942
- Language: English
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Historia de Italia: Una guÃa fascinante de la historia de Italia, desde los primeros asentamientos, pasando por la Edad Media, hasta la ép
$17.97 Add to cartSi desea descubrir la fascinante historia de Italia siga leyendo…
No es fácil trazar la frontera entre la historia de Italia y la de Roma. En muchos lugares, las dos entidades polÃticas y geográfi
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: March 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1637162170
- Language: Spanish
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The Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories
$25.95 Add to cartWho was Pandora and what was in her famous box? How did Achilles get his Achilles heel? What exactly is a Titan? And why is one computer virus known as a Trojan horse?
The myths of ancient Greece and … [more below]
- Series: Myths
- Author: Matyszak, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0500251738
- Language: English
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Encyclopedia of Pasta: Volume 26
$56.25 Add to cartSpaghetti, gnocchi, tagliatellea, ravioli, vincisgrassi, strascinati–pasta in its myriad forms has been a staple of the Mediterranean diet longer than bread. This beautiful volume is the first book t… [more below]
- Series: California Studies in Food and Culture #26
- Author: Zanini De Vita, Oretta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0520255224
- Language: English
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Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
$17.99 Add to cartTim Parks’s books on Italy have been hailed as “so vivid, so packed with delectable details, [they] serve as a more than decent substitute for the real thing” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, in … [more below]
- Author: Parks, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0393348822
- Language: English
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Catiline’s Conspiracy, the Jugurthine War, Histories
$15.95 Add to cartSallust was one of the first classical historians to move beyond a dry recitation of fact to paint sharp-edged portraits of the moral and political degeneration of the Roman Republic. Sallust’s abrupt… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sallust
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0192823450
- Language: English
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Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power
$17.99 Add to cartPart of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Machiavelli is a superb portrait of the brilliant and revolutionary political philosopher–history’s most famous theorist of “warfare, terror, murder, and b… [more below]
- Author: King, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0061768928
- Language: English
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Italian Without Words
$7.99 Add to cartYou don’t need words to speak Italian. All you really need is this unique “phrase book” of the most common Italian expressions, complete with authentic Italian gestures and body language. There’s no f… [more below]
- Author: Cangelosi, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: April 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0671677438
- Language: English
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Walking in the Dolomites: 25 Multi-Day Routes in Italy’s Dolomites
$27.95 Add to cartA guidebook to 25 multi-day treks in the Dolomites of north-east Italy. The routes range from moderate to challenging in difficulty, with varying degrees of mountain traverses, scrambles and exposure
- Author: Price, Gillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 31 2017
- ISBN10: 1852848448
- Language: English
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Rome: A Pilgrimage with Mary
$29.95 Read moreRome: A Pilgrimage with Mary is a lavishly illustrated coffee table book by Fr. Joseph Roesch, MIC.
Exquisitely captured in sumptuous photography, this book takes the reader on a pictorial “pilgrimag
- Author: Roesch, Fr Joseph, MIC
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1596144815
- Language: English
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Heretical Aesthetics: Pasolini on Painting
$24.95 Read moreFirst collection on filmmaker and poet Pasolini’s passion for painting
One of Europe’s most mythologized Marxist intellectuals of the 20th century, Pier Paolo Pasolini was not only a poet, filmmaker,- Author: Giammei, Alessandro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1804291285
- Language: English
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The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome
$18.95 Read moreWhat happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? The life and times of the worst Roman emperor of all.
What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy- Author: Sidebottom, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0861546857
- Language: English
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Faith, Reason, and the Plague in Seventeenth Century Tuscany
$17.99 Add to cartBy the late fall of 1630, the Black Plague had descended upon northern Italy. The prentice Magistry of Public Health, centered in Florence, took steps to contain and combat the scourge. In this essay,… [more below]
- Author: Cipolla, Carlo M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: August 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0393000451
- Language: English
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Road to Valor: A True Story of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation
$20.00 Add to cartThe inspiring, against-the-odds story of Gino Bartali, the cyclist who made the greatest comeback in Tour de France history and secretly aided the Italian resistance during World War II
Gino Bartali i- Author: McConnon, Aili
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 0307590658
- Language: English
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In Other Words: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Namesake delivers a powerful meditation on the process of learning to express herself in Italian–and the stunning journey o… [more below]
- Author: Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1101911468
- Language: English
