Italy category: 3604 books
by Niccolo Machiavelli
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Complete interlinked edition complemented by author biography and analysis. Introduction by HUGO ALBERT RENNERT, Ph.D. Professor of Romanic Languages and Literature, University of Pennsylvania. "The people who inhabit the northern parts beyond the Rhine and the Danube, living in a healthy and prolific...
by Ross Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
First in an exciting series, charting Rome's bloody road to empire
Recounts the desperate struggles for survival of the young Roman republic
Describes how and why Roman Armies eventually beat their Etruscan, Samnite, Celtic and other neighbours to dominate all of Italy
Discover...
Italy and Her Invaders
Volume III - The Ostrogothic Invasion
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
I have now to record the establishment of a Teutonic kingdom in Italy, which, more than any other of the new states arising on the ruins of the Roman Empire, promised to promote the happiness of the human race, which seemed likely to draw forth all that was noblest in the manhood...
Puppetmasters
The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2002
The CIA has been accused of a massive intelligence failure in the run-up to the 9/11 attacks -- the result, it is said, of a moralistic and bureaucratic approach to information-gathering. But the CIA's spies had few qualms when it came to cultivating terrorist organisations and interfering in the...
Salerno 1943
The Allies invade southern Italy
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
In mid-September 1943, as the opening move of the Allied campaign to liberate the mainland of Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force landed on the beaches of the Gulf of Salerno, only a few dozen miles to the south of Naples. Italy had just surrendered, and the soldiers in the landing craft prayed...
At War on the Gothic Line
Fighting in Italy, 1944-45
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
In the autumn of 1944, as Patton’s army paraded through Paris, another Allied force was gathering in southern Italy. Spearheaded by over 100,000 American troops, this vast, international army was faced with a grim task—break The Gothic Line, a series of interconnected German fortifications that...
by Robert Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010 is the first major study of how postwar Italy confronted, or failed to confront, the Holocaust. Fascist Italy was the model for Nazi Germany, and Mussolini was Hitler's prime ally in the Second World War. But Italy also became a theater of war and a victim...
by Joan Arndt
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
Italian Lessons is the true story of Joan and Roger’s move to Italy. Selling everything and leaving behind the familiar, the former public relations executive (Joan) and retired airline captain (Roger) purchased and renovated Le Vigne, a centuries-old farmhouse in the heart of Italy. Through effort,...
Head Over Heel
Seduced by Southern Italy
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
"Gets right under Italy's skin. Few books about living in foreign climes are written as entertainingly, beautifully or romantically." -- Sydney Morning Herald
WINNER OF THE GROLLO RUZZENE FOUNDATION PRIZE
When Chris travelled from Sydney to Dublin, he never dreamed his life was about...
The Art of Executing Well
Rituals of Execution in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In Renaissance Italy a good execution was both public and peaceful—at least in the eyes of authorities. In a feature unique to Italy, the people who prepared a condemned man or woman spiritually and psychologically for execution were not priests or friars, but laymen. This volume includes some of the...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Parma (Italy) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
Central Italy (including Umbria, Abruzzo, Lazio, Rome, Marche, Tuscany) Travel Guide
Culture - Sightseeing - Activities - Hotels - Nightlife - Restaurants - Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
(approx. 825 pages)
Our illustrated travel guide features of the best information from an experienced traveler as well as other local resources. It's just what you need to help you to plan your trip in advance and to accompany you on-the-ground.
Finding...
by Niccolo Machiavelli
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy by the Italian Renaissance historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist, and writer, Niccolo Machiavelli. He distributed the Ostrogoths over the country, each district under its leader, that he might more conveniently command them in war, and govern them in peace.
Building a Civil Society
Associations, Public Life, and the Origins of Modern Italy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The most passionate advocates of Italy’s unification in the nineteenth century possessed an almost limitless faith in the benefits of civic association. They also shared a common concern: once Italian unification was achieved and various freedoms were established, would ordinary Italians naturally...