Italy category: 3604 books
by Elizabeth Robbins Pennell, Joseph Pennell, Illustrator
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
This essay idealizes the lake and the scenery, reflecting on Idyllic.
Paradise of Cities
Venice in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
John Julius Norwich’s A History of Venice has been dubbed “indispensable” by none other than Jan Morris. Now, in his second book on the city once known as La Serenissima, Norwich advances the story in this elegant chronicle of a hundred years of Venice’s highs and lows, from its ignominious...
April Blood
Florence and the Plot against the Medici
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2003
One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing narrative opens up an entire culture, revealing the dark side of Renaissance man and politician Lorenzo de' Medici. On a Sunday in April 1478,...
Redeeming The Prince
The Meaning of Machiavelli's Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
In Redeeming "The Prince," one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars puts forth a startling new interpretation of arguably the most influential but widely misunderstood book in the Western political tradition. Overturning popular misconceptions and challenging scholarly consensus,...
by Jacob Burckhardt
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 1990
For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts...
A Secret Place
The Hidden Treasure of Abruzzo Italy
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
In the central region of Italy, I discover the ancient ruins of the small hill towns of Abruzzo. With my eyes I witnessed the breath taking scenery, with my digital camera I capture the historical and cultural wealth of the 12th century. The experience was filled with treasures and life enrichment.
The Montefeltro Conspiracy
A Renaissance Mystery Decoded
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
A brutal murder, a nefarious plot, a coded letter. After five hundred years, the most notorious mystery of the Renaissance is finally solved.
The Italian Renaissance is remembered as much for intrigue as it is for art, with papal politics and infighting among Italy’s many city-states providing...
by Enrico Massetti
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Perhaps it is the evocative nature of the place or a certain enchanted air (we might almost say “mystic”) that you breathe to some extent everywhere, but sooner or later whoever visits Umbria ends up thinking: Saint Francis, that great, gentle, tender and poetic Saint of happiness and meekness...
I Found Myself In Tuscany
One Woman, Two Suitcases, Three Years
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
When Lisa Condie’s marriage and a subsequent relationship disintegrated, she traveled to Italy to lick her wounds and implored her angels to help her discover what her next chapter of life might hold. As Lisa explored the streets of Florence, she felt invigorated and fulfilled wandering through...
Villani's Chronicle.
Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Replica of 1906 edition by Archibald Constable & Co Ltd., London.
Editor: Philip H. Wicksteed Translator: Rose E. Selfe. Elibron Classics
. Villani’s Chronicle is a history of Florence, Italy, written by a citizen of that city, who was alive at the time of Dante. This is one of the first...
by Amy steedman, Katharine cameron
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
"I want a hidden pearl story to-day," said the child.
"What kind of a story is that?" asked the saint. She was a real saint, although every one could not see the golden halo that shone round her dear head.
"One of the old stories which you say are like the common shells that...
by Gabrielle Euvino
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
You're no idiot, of course. You know there's more to Italy's rich tapestry than spaghetti and the Sicilian Mafia, but you also know you have a lot to learn about the country that brought you the paintings of Michelangelo, the poetry of Dante, and the Ferrari of your dreams.
Get ready to indulge!...
Vital Crises in Italian Cinema
Iconography, Stylistics, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Examining the landmark works that ushered in Italy's golden age of cinema, P. Adams Sitney provides a stylish, historically rich survey of the epochal films made by Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and others in the years after World...
At Least You're in Tuscany
A Somewhat Disastrous Quest for the Sweet Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
When dream meets reality. . .
Endless fields of flame-like poppies. Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. The sweet, rhythmic chime of church bells.
Months upon months of unemployment? Struggling to communicate with locals? Duvets frozen on the clothesline?
Jennifer Criswell's...