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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...
Fatal Decision
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99Fatal Decision is a powerful, dramatic, moving, and ultimately definitive narrative of one of the most desperate campaigns of World War II. In the winter of 1943-44, Anzio, a small Mediterranean resort and port some thirty-five miles south of Rome, played a crucial role in the fortunes of World War II as the target of an amphibious Allied landing.... more...
Bitter Victory
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99Bitter Victory illuminates a chapter of World War II that has lacked a balanced, full-scale treatment until now. In recounting the second-largest amphibious operation in military history, Carlo D'Este for the first time reveals the conflicts in planning and the behind-the-scenes quarrels between top Allied commanders. The book explodes the myth... more...
Mussolini's Italy
Penguin Group US 2007; US$ 20.00With Mussolini ?s Italy , R.J.B. Bosworth?the foremost scholar on the subject writing in English?vividly brings to life the period in which Italians participated in one of the twentieth century?s most notorious political experiments. Il Duce?s Fascists were the original totalitarians, espousing a cult of violence and obedience that inspired many other... more...
Galileo's Instruments of Credit
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 22.50In six short years, Galileo Galilei went from being a somewhat obscure mathematics professor running a student boarding house in Padua to a star in the court of Florence to the recipient of dangerous attention from the Inquisition for his support of Copernicanism. In that brief period, Galileo made a series of astronomical discoveries that reshaped... more...
Trading Places
BRILL 2009; US$ 147.00This book deals with the Netherlandish merchant community in early modern Venice. It analyses how these immigrant traders used their commercial position to secure a place in the city and shows the consequences of the changes in international commerce for Venetian society. more...
Sicily
Steerforth Press 2010; US$ 19.95Tourists, armchair travelers, and historians will all delight in this fluid narrative that can be read straight through, dipped into over time, or used as a reference guide to each period in Sicily?s fascinating tale. Emigration of people from Sicily often overshadows the importance of the people who immigrated to the island through the centuries.... more...
Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken (2009)
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2010; US$ 172.00Die historische Fachzeitschrift »Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken« (QFIAB) erscheint seit 1898 und wird vom Deutschen Historischen Institut (DHI) in Rom herausgegeben. Die Artikel und Miszellen (mit Inhaltszusammenfassungen auf Deutsch bzw. Italienisch) behandeln Themen zu den Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland... more...









