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  • Lidia's Italyby Lidia Matticchio Bastianich; Tanya Bastianich Manuali

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 35.00

    In this exciting new book the incomparable Lidia takes us on a gastronomic journey?from Piemonte to Puglia?exploring ten different regions that have informed her cooking and helped to make her the fabulous cook that she is today. In addition, her daughter Tanya, an art historian, guides us to some of the nearby cultural treasures that enrich the pursuit... more...

  • The Sack of Romeby Alexander Stille

    Penguin Group US 2007; US$ 18.00

    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? Many are the crimes of Silvio Berlusconi, Stille... more...

  • Siena and the Sienese in the Thirteenth Centuryby Daniel Philip Waley

    Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 44.00

    This book portrays the life and insitutions of a great medieval Italian city, Siena, through the surviving records and buildings of the period. more...

  • Naples in the Eighteenth Centuryby Girolamo Imbruglia

    Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 42.00

    Essays on the political and cultural importance of Naples in the eighteenth century. more...

  • The Last Judgmentby James A. Connor

    Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 15.99

    Painted on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, 28 years after Michelangelo completed the glorious and hopeful ceiling, The Last Judgment is full of stark images depicting the End of Days. James Connor uses the famous fresco as the lens by which to view the end of the Renaissance, arguing that Michelangelo's imagery and composition reflect the... more...

  • Syracuse, City of Legendsby Jeremy Dummett

    I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 35.00

    Dubbed 'the greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of them all' by Cicero, Syracuse also boasts the richest history of anywhere in Sicily. "Syracuse, City of Legends" - the first modern historical guide to the city - explores Syracuse's place within the island and the wider Mediterranean and reveals why it continues to captivate... more...

  • Pompeii Awakenedby Judith Harris

    I.B.Tauris 2009; US$ 40.00

    "Pompeii Awakened" tells of the re-emergence in 1755 of an evocative, vanished world, which profoundly inspired a later age - from its arts and architecture to its science, sex and religion. The story of Pompeii lies not just in its uniquely preserved classical remains but also in its extraordinary impact on Europe's cultural imagination.... more...

  • Isabella de'Mediciby Caroline P. Murphy

    Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 14.57

    The magnificent, alluring and ultimately tragic life of Isabella, the most brilliant woman of the Medici. more...

  • The Cronaca di Partenopeby Samantha Kelly

    BRILL 2011; US$ 182.00

    This volume offers the first critical edition of and thorough introduction to one of medieval Naples? most notable expressions of local memory and identity and a foundational text in the subsequent development of Neapolitan historiography. more...

  • Between Scylla and Charybdisby Shlomo Simonsohn

    BRILL 2011; US$ 292.00

    The history of the Jews in Sicily covers a period of over a thousand years, from Antiquity to the Expulsion, based on some 40,000 archival records, most of them hitherto unpublished. It illustrates the political, legal, economic, social and religious vicissitudes of the Jewish minority and its relations with the surrounding majority of Romans, Moslems... more...