Cultural Region/Italy
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Sicilian Feasts, Illustrated Edition: Authentic Home Cooking from Sicily
$39.95 Add to cart“… a superbly presented collection of rich, lip-smacking treats offering a festival of taste and exploration for adventurous dining.”–The Midwest Book Review
Now available in an illustrated edition
- Series: Hippocrene Cookbook Library
- Author: La Marca, Giovanna Bellia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0781814332
- Language: English
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The Written World and the Unwritten World: Essays
$18.99 Add to cart“Wonderful… Calvino’s prose is sparkling as ever, and he approaches ideas with wit and an open mind, always ready to challenge a stale point of view. This anthology will delight Calvino fans old and
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0544146999
- Language: English
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The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome
$26.90 Add to cart“A provocative history” of intrigue and class struggle in Ancient Rome–“an important alternative to the usual views of Caesar and the Roman Empire” (Publishers Weekly).
Most historians, both ancient- Series: New Press People’s History
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: August 30 2004
- ISBN10: 1565849426
- Language: English
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The Serpent Coiled in Naples
$19.95 Read moreA travelogue revealing the hidden stories of Naples.
In recent years Naples has become, for better or worse, the new destination in Italy. While many of its more unusual features are on display for a- Series: Armchair Traveller
- Author: Kociejowski, Marius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1914982029
- Language: English
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
$20.00 Add to cartEdward Gibbon’s six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one o… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Gibbon, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140437649
- Language: English
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Rick Steves Italian Phrase Book & Dictionary
$12.99 Add to cartBuon giorno From ordering calamari in Venice to making new friends in Tuscan hill towns, it helps to speak some of the native tongue in Italy. Rick Steves offers well-tested Italian words and phrases… [more below]
- Series: Rick Steves Travel Guide
- Author: Steves, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1641711965
- Language: English
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Pizza Night: Deliciously Doable Recipes for Pizza and Salad
$30.00 Add to cartMake pizza night a weekly tradition with these 52 seasonal pizzas paired with salads for a complete meal–from the award-winning author of Bread Toast Crumbs and creator of the popular blog Alexandra’… [more below]
- Author: Stafford, Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593579941
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno
$18.00 Add to cartAn acclaimed translation of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno that retains all the style, power and meaning of the original
A Penguin Classic This vigorous translation of Inferno- Series: Divine Comedy
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0142437220
- Language: English
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S.P.Q.R: A History of Ancient Rome
$39.99 Add to cartAncient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a “mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride an
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0871404230
- Language: English
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Slow Food, Fast Cars: Casa Maria Luigia – Stories and Recipes
$59.95 Read moreAs featured in WSJ. Magazine and The Financial Times
Welcome to Casa Maria Luigia, Massimo Bottura and Lara Gilmore’s idyllic guest house in the Italian countryside
Lara Gilmore and Massimo Bottura –
- Author: Bottura, Massimo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1838667245
- Language: English
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At My Italian Table: Family Recipes from My Cucina to Yours: A Cookbook
$32.50 Add to cartBring the joy of Italian cooking to your kitchen with 100 classic and incredibly delicious Italian family favorites, from the star of Laura in the Kitchen.
When Laura Vitale moved to the United States- Author: Vitale, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 27, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593579860
- Language: English
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Cucina Povera: The Italian Way of Transforming Humble Ingredients Into Unforgettable Meals
$35.00 Add to cartTuscan native and accomplished home cook Giulia Scarpaleggia shares the wholesome, comforting, and nostalgic recipes of cucina povera–Italian peasant cooking that is equal parts thrifty, nourishing,
- Author: Scarpaleggia, Giulia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 1648290566
- Language: English
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Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land, a “dazzling” (Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran) m
- Author: Doerr, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 10, 2008
- ISBN10: 141657316X
- Language: English
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Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World
$16.99 Add to cartA leading spiritual teacher reveals how Celtic spirituality–listening to the sacred around us and inside of us–can help us heal the earth, overcome our conflicts, and reconnect with ourselves.
John P
- Author: Newell, John Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0063023504
- Language: English
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Verdigris
$19.95 Add to cartAt the tail end of the 1960s, the thirteen-year-old Michelino spends
his summers at his grandparents’ modest estate in Nasca, near Lake Maggiore,
losing himself in the tales of horror, adventure,- Author: Mari, Michele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1913505901
- Language: English
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The Minotaur at Calle Lanza
$19.95 Add to cartIn the fall of 2020, as the pandemic raged around the globe, Zito Madu traveled to Venice for a writing fellowship. There, he found a deserted, silent, but still beautiful city, “one of those extraord… [more below]
- Author: Madu, Zito
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 185
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1953368662
- Language: English
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The Dry Heart
$12.95 Add to cartThe Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.” As the tale–a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness–proceeds, t… [more below]
- Author: Ginzburg, Natalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 25 2019
- ISBN10: 0811228789
- Language: English
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Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
$18.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling, award winning story of the construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence and the Renaissance genius who reinvented architecture to build it.
On August 1- Author: King, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 1620401932
- Language: English
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Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World
$32.00 Add to cartThe story of Messalina – third wife of the emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world
The image of the empress Messalina as a ruthless, sexually insatiable- Author: Cargill-Martin, Honor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 6, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363955
- Language: English
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Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
$16.95 Add to cartSister of Caligula. Wife of Claudius. Mother of Nero. The story of Agrippina, at the center of imperial power for three generations, is the story of the Julio-Claudia dynasty–and of Rome itself, at i… [more below]
- Author: Southon, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1643136100
- Language: English
