Italy category: 3604 books
As If God Existed
Religion and Liberty in the History of Italy
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
Religion and liberty are often thought to be mutual enemies: if religion has a natural ally, it is authoritarianism--not republicanism or democracy. But in this book, Maurizio Viroli, a leading historian of republican political thought, challenges this conventional wisdom. He argues that political...
Seven Seasons in Siena
My Quixotic Quest for Acceptance Among Tuscany's Proudest People
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Siena seems at first glance a typical Italian city: within its venerable medieval walls the citizens sport designer clothes, wield digital phones, and prize their dazzling local cuisine. But unlike neighboring Florence, Siena is still deeply rooted in ancient traditions—chiefly the spectacular Palio,...
Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment
Art, Science, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini (r. 1740–58) was one of the driving forces behind the Italian Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. His campaign to reconcile faith and empirical science, re-launch a dialogue between the Church and the European intellectual community, and expand papal patronage of...
by Sunshine Jen
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
In autumn 2014, Sunshine Jen and her partner D walked for a month on the Via Francigena, an old pilgrim trail ending at St. Peter's Square. Trekking from Fidenza, through Tuscany, and into Rome, they encountered rain, prickly bushes, and delicious pizza while experiencing Italy at a walking pace. In addition to being a memoir, this book contains travel tips for walking the Via Francigena.
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A Reckoning With Loss
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
In this “splendid and subtle memoir,” a young woman spends a year in an Italian village reflecting on both beauty and grief (The New York Times Book Review).
Having lost eight friends in ten years, Martha Cooley retreats to a tiny medieval village in Italy with her husband. There, in a rural...
by Enrico Massetti
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
2019 edition
The Amalfi Coast is without a doubt the most spectacular and beautiful coastline in Italy. Moorish style villages cling to the dramatic jagged cliffs, perched over the rippling waves below. The air is scented with lemons and wild herbs, and of course the sea. The villages that string...
Meet Me in Venice
A Chinese Immigrant's Journey from the Far East to the Faraway West
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
When Ye Pei dreamed of Venice as a girl, she imagined a magical floating city of canals and gondola rides. And she imagined her mother, successful in her new life and eager to embrace the daughter she had never forgotten. But when Ye Pei arrives in Italy, she learns her mother works on a farm far...
The Mother-in-Law Cure (Originally published as Only in Naples)
Learning to Live and Eat in an Italian Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Full of lighthearted humor, sumptuous food, the wisdom of an Italian mother-in-law, and all the atmosphere of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, this warm and witty memoir follows American-born Katherine Wilson on her adventures abroad. Thanks to a surprising romance—and a spirited woman who...
The Pope's Dilemma
Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Pope Pius XII presided over the Catholic Church during one of the most challenging moments in its history. Elected in early 1939, Pius XII spoke out against war and destruction, but his refusal to condemn Nazi Germany and its allies for mass atrocities and genocide remains controversial almost seventy...
The Spartacus Road
A Personal Journey Through Ancient Italy
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Its success was something no one before had ever known. The Spartacus Road is the route along which this rebel army outfought the world's finest military forces between 73and 71 BC, bringing both fears and hopes that have never wholly left the modern mind. Sweepingly erudite and strikingly personal,...
by Frederick C. Schneid
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
The culmination of decades of nationalist aspiration and cynical Realpolitik, the Second War of Italian Unification saw Italy transformed from a patchwork of minor states dominated by the Habsburg Austrians into a unified kingdom under the Piedmontese House of Savoy. Unlike many existing accounts,...
by William Graebner
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
BEST TRAVEL GUIDEBOOK 2014 in eBOOK AWARDS. Seen the Coliseum and the Vatican? Tired of ancient history? Looking for a more authentic, more contemporary experience? Walk the new Rome, without the tourists. Rome with the Romans.
Following the success of their alternative guidebook, Rome the Second...
Juventus F.C
History & Success (la Vecchia Signora)
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Founded in 1897 as Sport-Club Juventus by a group of young Torinese students, among them, who was their first president, Eugenio Canfari, and his brother Enrico, author of the company's historical memory; they have been managed by the industrial Agnelli family since 1923, which constitutes the oldest...
by Boze Hadleigh
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
492 Great Things About Being Italian is fun, informative and catnip for 17 million Italian-Americans. It follows in the footsteps of other successful books aimed at this minority proud of its remarkable-and ongoing!-heritage. It comprises 492 (as in 1492
) individual people, things, places and phenomena...