Italy category: 3604 books
A Chill in the Air
An Italian War Diary, 1939-1940
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
In 1939 it was not a foregone conclusion that Mussolini would enter World War II on the side of Hitler. In this previously unpublished and only recently discovered diary, Iris Origo, author of the classic War in Val d’Orcia, provides a vivid account of how Mussolini decided on a course of action...
The Sack of Rome
Media + Money + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
Award-winning author Alexander Stille has been called ?one of the best English-language writers on Italy? by the New York Times Book Review, and in The Sack of Rome he sets out to answer the question: What happens when vast wealth, a virtual media monopoly, and acute shamelessness combine in one man?...
Learn Italian: 500 Real Answers
(Italian Conversation)
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
As you may already know, Italian is far from being an easy-to-learn language.
The best way to try to master Italian is through conversation. If you already know the grammar, now it's time to put it in practice.
In this book, you will find 5-6 possible answers to 100 Italian common conversation...
by Charles L. Mee Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Here, award-winning historian Charles L. Mee Jr. explores life in Renaissance Italy - from the ascendancy of Florence and the Medicis to the genius of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Through wars and violence to festivals and feasts, Mee examines the people - artists, clergy, courtiers, merchants, scholars, and women - who fashioned the cradle for the rebirth of the Western world.
Tasting Rome
Fresh Flavors and Forgotten Recipes from an Ancient City
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
A love letter from two Americans to their adopted city, Tasting Rome is a showcase of modern dishes influenced by tradition, as well as the rich culture of their surroundings.
Even 150 years after unification, Italy is still a divided nation where individual regions are defined by their local...
Uniformi Napoleoniche (Francia e Italia)
Napoleonic uniforms of France and Italy
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 25, 2015
Gli Italiani con Napoleone sono il soggetto di questa bella raccolta di figurini dell’artista piemontese. Dedicati alle repubbliche figlie della rivoluzione, la nascita del tricolore, il Regno Italico ed anche il Regno di Napoli di Murat. In appendice, completano la trattazione alcuni interessanti reggimenti di cavalleria orientale al servizio dell’Impero napoleonico.
Divas in the Convent
Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590–1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. Thanks to clandestine instruction from a local maestro di cappella—and despite the church hierarchy’s vehement opposition...
Gomorrah
A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
A groundbreaking major bestseller in Italy, Gomorrah is Roberto Saviano's gripping nonfiction account of the decline of Naples under the rule of the Camorra, an organized crime network with a large international reach and stakes in construction, high fashion, illicit drugs, and toxic-waste disposal....
Summary and Analysis of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Based on the Book by Mary Beard
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of SPQR tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Mary Beard’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
This short...
As the Romans Do
The Delights, Dramas, And Daily Diversio
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A celebration of the character and style of one of the world's most spectacular cities! This vibrant insider's view of the most mature city on earth is the perfect companion for anyone who loves anything Italian. In 1995, after a twenty-year love affair with Italy, Alan Epstein fulfilled his dream...
by Stephen Brewer, Donald Strachan
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
More and more American tourists to Italy are confining their stays to the ultra-popular province of Tuscany, with its "capitals" of Florence and Siena, its astonishing Pisa and Lucca, its Grevi (chianti and montepulciano wines) and San Gimignano. Donald Strachan, author of our broader Easy Guide to Rome,...
Under the Tuscan Sun
20th-Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2003
A CLASSIC FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF UNDER MAGNOLIA
Frances Mayes—widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer—opens the door to a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. In evocative language, she brings the...
by John Hooper
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
**Washington Post bestseller
Los Angeles Times bestseller
A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent**
How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also produce the Mafia? And why does Italian have twelve words for coat hanger but none...
Venice
Pure City
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
In this magnificent vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and beauty. He leads us through the history of the city, from the first refugees arriving in the mists of the lagoon in the fourth...