Rizzoli Ex Libris imprint: 25 books
Food & Freedom
How the Slow Food Movement Is Changing the World Through Gastronomy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Inspiring the global fight to revolutionize the way food is grown, distributed, and eaten. In the almost thirty years since Carlo Petrini began the Slow Food organization, he has been constantly engaged in the fight for food justice. Beginning first in his native Italy and then expanding all over...
Forever Chic
Frenchwomen's Secrets for Timeless Beauty, Style, and Substance
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
For any woman who last saw forty on her speedometer comes a sparkling new primer for aging—the French way—with grace and style. Frenchwomen of a certain age (over forty) are captivating and complex. They appear younger than their years and remain stylish throughout their lives. They look at birthdays...
The Gardener of Versailles
My Life in the World's Grandest Garden
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 Finalist
For gardening aficionados and Francophiles, a love letter to the Versailles Palace and grounds, from the man who knows them best. In Alain Baraton's Versailles, every grove tells a story. As the gardener-in-chief, Baraton lives on its grounds,...
by Gianrico Carofiglio
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A stand-alone thriller from best-selling Italian crime writer Gianrico Carofiglio, whose work has been translated into twenty-four languages. Every Monday and Thursday, Roberto Marías crosses Rome on foot for his appointment with his psychiatrist. There he sits in silence, flooded by memories. He...
Wine in Words
Some Notes for Better Drinking
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Delectably brief essays that tell you only what you need to know to enjoy wine. There are wine encyclopedias, bibles, and guides—this is not one of those books. It doesn’t contain everything, just the really important stuff: the truly key wines, grapes, regions; tips about wine buying, aging,...
The Fault Line
Traveling the Other Europe, from Finland to Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
An award-winning writer travels the eastern front of Europe, where the push/pull between old empires and new possibilities has never been more evident. Paolo Rumiz traces the path that has twice cut Europe in two—first by the Iron Curtain and then by the artificial scaffolding of the EU—moving...
The Hills of Chianti
The Story of a Tuscan Winemaking Family, in Seven Bottles
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
The head of Italy’s "first family" of winemaking reflects on the Antinoris’ six-hundred-year legacy and a life of good food and drink in the hills of Tuscany. If you know wine, you know the name Antinori. Since 1385, this noble Florentine family has produced some of Italy’s finest...
The Barbarians
An Essay on the Mutation of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
From one of Italy's most respected literary voices, a manifesto on the state of global culture and how connectivity is changing the way we experience it. For the gatekeepers of traditional high culture, the rise of young ambitious outsiders has indeed seemed like nothing short of a barbarian invasion....
Slow Food Nation
Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
By now most of us are aware of the threats looming in the food world. The best-selling Fast Food Nation and other recent books have alerted us to such dangers as genetically modified organisms, food-borne diseases, and industrial farming. Now it is time for answers, and Slow Food Nation steps up to...
Following St. Francis
John Paul II's Call for Ecological Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The first book to present the environmental teachings of this beloved pope—the newly canonized St. John Paul—and the hopeful words of Pope Francis, thoughtfully synthesized into a complete spiritual and practical vision for the future.
"The ecological crisis is a moral crisis."...
Frocking Life
Searching for Elsa Schiaparelli
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
At an early age, BillyBoy* chose two mentors: Bugs Bunny and Elsa Schiaparelli. From Bugs Bunny, he learned the basics of how to behave in society and how to manage life’s wicked turns; to be coy, smart, witty, and to always dress appropriately with the assurance of Beau Brummell. But most of all,...
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