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Fire in the City:Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence
Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
A gripping and beautifully written narrative that reads like a novel, Fire in the City presents a compelling account of a key moment in the history of the Renaissance, illuminating the remarkable man who dominated the period, the charismatic Savonarola. Lauro Martines, whose decades of scholarship...
First Words
A Childhood in Fascist Italy
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
An internationally acclaimed novelist and journalist movingly chronicles her childhood in Rome during World War II, providing a rare account by a Catholic of Jewish persecution and Papal responsibility
In 1937, Rosetta Loy was a privileged five-year-old growing up in the heart of the well-to-do...
by DK
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Planning a trip to Italy? The Eyewitness Travel Guides: Italian Visual Phrase Book can help you start learning Italian today. Whether you're visiting Italy for business or pleasure, learn how to speak Italian with essential words and phrases for hundreds of illustrated everyday objects. Find key phrases...
Dances with Luigi
A Grandson's Determined Quest to Comprehend Italy and the Italians
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2000
In this spirited memoir, veteran TV journalist Paul Paolicelli does what many of us can only dream of--he picks up and moves to a foreign country in an attempt to trace his ancestral roots. With the help of Luigi, his guide and companion, he travels through Italy--Rome, Gamberale, Matera, Miglionico,...
A Thousand Days in Venice
An Unexpected Romance
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Fernando 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 divorced American chef traveling through Italy, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thought she was done...
Travel Rome & Lazio, Italy
Illustrated guide, phrasebook and maps.
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This illustrated Travel Guide is designed for optimal navigation on iPad and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically and by category, making it easier to access individual articles. Articles feature information about attractions, landmarks, districts, transportation, cultural venues, dining,...
Italy: Charming Small Hotel Guides
Chic, stylish city hotels, magical rural retreats, cosiest mountain lodges, to-die-for seaside escapes & other places to stay
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Travel guides are perfect for ebook readers because they're light and portable. Charming Small Hotel Guides are the only accommodation guides that combine these five essential qualities: places with character and charm, from budget to luxury; highly selective - every place worth a journey; fussy about...
by Stephen Keeling, Donald Strachan, Elizabeth Heath
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
There’s no better introduction to Italy than the classic itinerary of Rome, Florence and Venice. But it’s not dummy-proof, which is why we enlisted three of the world’s most knowledgeable Italy experts to pen this totally revised and updated annual guide. Their helpful advice and honest, opinionated...
Sicily
Three Thousand Years of Human History
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Tourists, armchair travelers, and historians will all delight in this fluid narrative that can be read straight through, dipped into over time, or used as a reference guide to each period in Sicily’s fascinating tale. Emigration of people from Sicily often overshadows the importance of the people...
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. IF the readers of this volume will be so kind as to take their credentials for the different places which are the subject of its author's reminiscences, from the Author himself, perhaps they may visit them, in fancy, the more agreeably, and with a better understanding of what they are to expect.
Siena
City of Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Jane Tylus’s Siena is a compelling and intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Cultural history, intellectual memoir, travelogue, and guidebook, it takes the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-traveled roads and alleys...
by Enrico Massetti
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
2019 edition
Siena is one of Italy’s best preserved medieval towns, located in the heart of Tuscany. Built on three hills and surrounded by well preserved walls, it is filled with fine examples of Gothic architecture and has one of the world’s most unique piazzas – il Campo – (shaped...
Daughters of Italy
The Journey of Italian American Women Writers
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
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by Lilian Whiting
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
THE PERIOD OF MODERN ART IN ROME But ah, that spring should vanish with the Rose! That youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close? The nightingale that in the branches sang, Oh, where and whither flown again, – who knows? OMAR KHAYYAM.