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Italy
Infobase Publishing 2004; US$ 85.00Exploring more than 500 years of the country's history, "Italy" provides readers interested in modern Italy or European history with a greater understanding of Italy's past, from the Renaissance to the present. This guide presents the milestones in Italy's history in an interesting and readable way. more...
Rewriting Roman History in the Middle Ages
BRILL 2007; US$ 171.00Represents a witness to the transition from Latin to vernacular literature, which the author relates to the intellectual and ideological milieu of the Ottonians. This book offers a classification of extant manuscripts containing rewritings of the Historia Romana. It also defines its guiding ideological and literary principles. more...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Italian History and Culture
Alpha Books 2001; US$ 18.95You’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! The Complete Idiot’s Guide®... more...
The Borgias
Constable & Robinson 2011; US$ 13.11The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring also rose to power and fame - Lucrezia Borgia, his daughter, whose husband was famously... more...
Paolo Giovio
Princeton University Press 1995; US$ 50.50Best-known for his sweeping narrative Histories of His Own Times and for his portrait museum on Lake Como, the Italian bishop and historian Paolo Giovio (1486-1552) had contact with many of the protagonists of the great events he so vividly described--the wars of France, Germany, and Spain, and the sack of Rome. He used the information he gleaned... more...
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