Italy category: 3604 books

On the Road with Francis of Assisi offers a unique and lively travelogue of parallel journeys: that of Francis of Assisi on his way to sainthood in the thirteenth century, and that of author Linda Bird Francke, who followed his path through the beauty of central and coastal Italy–and even on to...

Medieval Italian communes are known for their violence, feuds, and vendettas, yet beneath this tumult was a society preoccupied with peace. Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy is the first book to examine how civic peacemaking in the age of Dante was forged in the crucible of penitential religious...

DK Eyewitness Travel Family Guide Italy: Rome & Lazio, from the groundbreaking family travel series, is written by parents and guarantees the entire family will enjoy their trip to Italy. With child-friendly sleeping and eating options, detailed maps of main sightseeing areas, travel information,...

Welcome to Italy. Nothing beats the right phrase. THE TOP 10 GUIDE TO ITALIAN PHRASES provides travelers the right words for getting around one of the world’s most visited countries. Turn the pages as Italian Sharri Whiting lists necessary phrases to guide you through your visit to Italy....

Crawford's A History of Southern Italy: The Rulers of the South is a fascinating history of southern Italy and Sicily.

Imagine creating an Italian dream vacation with a fun-loving savvy traveler girlfriend whispering in your ear. Go with writer Susan Van Allen on a femme-friendly ride up and down the boot, to explore an extraordinarily enchanting country where Venus (Vixen Goddess of Love and Beauty) and The Madonna...

Italy, July 1944. The unendurable insult to Italy?s inherently genial way of life brought about by Hitler?s storm-troopers and Mussolini?s Fascist toadies was both taking its toll on the people of Italy and creating a fledgling underground Resistance movement whose heroic ranks would soon swell to...

Peter Ghiringhelli’s turbulent childhood as the son of Italian Fascist parents saw him deported from England to Italy at the start of World War II. Here Peter witnessed at first hand what life was like in a totalitarian state, and his vivid memories of cold and hunger, his own role in Fascist rallies...

The first impression of the general reader may be that this book treats of events so distant in time, and so different in moral scenery, from the political and social conditions in which we live as to afford little or no instruction to us. No history, except that of one’s own country, affords precise...

"It was their lovely ways, far more than their monuments, that made the Florentines delightful. I would rather have had a perpetuity of the cameriere's smile than Donatello's San Giorgio." Tuscany is arguably the most alluring and iconic region of Italy. It is a place of breathtaking...

Umbria is located in Italy’s green centre between Tuscany, La Marche and Lazio. This small, landlocked region has less than a million inhabitants but is proud of its historic cities including Perugia, Orvieto and Assisi. Umbria offers idyllic ancient towns perched on scenic hills, each one with...

Know What You Eat! A convenient menu translator for English-speakers visiting Italy. From Abbacchio to Zuppa Pavese, this concise food and menu translator provides clear, alphabetized descriptions of over 1,000 common (and not-so-common) Italian dishes that you are likely to find on menus throughout Italy. Know what you order!

Buon appetito! Everyone loves Italian food. But how did the Italians come to eat so well? The answer lies amid the vibrant beauty of Italy's historic cities. For a thousand years, they have been magnets for everything that makes for great eating: ingredients, talent, money, and power. Italian...

This book provides a narrative history of Italian colonialism from Italian unification in the 1860s to the first decade of the twentieth century; that is, it details Italy’s imperialism in the years of the Scramble for Africa. It deals with the factors that drove Italy to search for territory in...