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Italian Economy in the 1990's
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 230.00This work presents an authoritative and up-to-date account of the Italian economy looking at the labour market, public debt and privatisation. Rich in data, it provides an invaluable study of one of the most turbulent economies in Western Europe. more...
The Politics of Exile in Renaissance Italy
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 48.00This book provides the first systematic analysis of the role of exiles in the political life of fifteenth-century Italy. It also provides fresh perspectives on the nature and power of governments during this period, and on ideas about the legitimacy of political authority and political action. more...
The Long Search for a Third Way
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 145.00Ilaria Favretto presents a detailed study which traces the origins of the Third Way by comparing the European Left's contemporary neo-revisionism with past revisionist attempts. Focussing its analysis on the British Labour Party and the Italian Left, The Long Search for a Third Way provides new interpretations and insights into the histories of... more...
Casanova
Penguin Group Inc. 2008; US$ 15.95"A sheer testament to the power of the written word." ( The New York Times ) Giacomo Casanova's energy was dazzling. He made and lost fortunes, founded state lotteries, and wrote forty-two books and 3,600 pages of memoirs recording the tastes and smells of the years before the French Revolution-as well as his affairs and sexual encounters with... more...
La Bella Figura
Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00Join the bestselling author of Ciao, America! on a lively tour of modern Italy that takes you behind the seductive face it puts on for visitors? la bella figura ?and highlights its maddening, paradoxical true self You won?t need luggage for this hypothetical and hilarious trip into the hearts and minds of Beppe Severgnini?s fellow Italians. In... more...
Casa Nostra
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99Englishwoman Caroline Seller met Marcello Manzo at a Halloween party in London in the mid-seventies. Although she spoke little Italian and he spoke practically no English, the chemistry between them was undeniable, and it wasn?t long before Caroline was invited to visit Marcello's family in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily. A large, eccentric, and loving... more...
The Undevelopment of Capitalism
Temple University Press 2008; US$ 32.95The results of a decade-long research study by the author, in The Undevelopment of Capitalism Rebecca Jean Emigh argues that the expansion of the Florentine economic market in the fifteenth century helped to undo the development of markets of other economies, especially the rural economy of Tuscany, paradoxically slowing down the economic development... more...
Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 35.00In this inspiring new book, Lidia Bastianich awakens in us a new respect for food and for the people who produce it in the little-known parts of Italy that she explores. All of the recipes reflect the regions from which they spring, and in translating them to our home kitchens, Lidia passes on time-honored techniques and wonderful, uncomplicated recipes... more...
Spaces, Objects and Identities in Early Modern Italian Medicine
Wiley 2009; US$ 34.95This collection, by an international team of scholars, presents exciting research currently being undertaken on early modern Italy which questions the conventional boundaries of medical history. Brings together historians of medicine and scholars of different backgrounds who are re-visiting the field from new perspectives and with the support of innovative... more...
Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 164.99This is an exploration and reconstruction of the role of charlatans, itinerant medical practitioners, in Italy from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. David Gentilcore examines the goods and services charlatans provided, their marketing strategies, and dealings with the public, and shows how the authorities attempted to regulate and control their... more...









