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An Armchair Traveller's History of Apulia
Haus Publishing 2013; US$ 19.95A historical guide to the landscapes, cave towns, frescoed churches, Romanesque cathedrals, and Gothic castles of Apulia. more...
Venice: Lion City
Washington Square Press 2013; Not AvailableGarry Wills's Venice: Lion City is a tour de force -- a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world's most fascinating city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was at the peak of its glory. This was not the city of decadence, carnival, and nostalgia familiar to us from later centuries. It was a ruthless imperial city, with... more...
Venice: Lion City
Washington Square Press 2013; Not AvailableGarry Wills's Venice: Lion City is a tour de force -- a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world's most fascinating city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was at the peak of its glory. This was not the city of decadence, carnival, and nostalgia familiar to us from later centuries. It was a ruthless imperial city, with... more...
Mafia Republic: Italy's Criminal Curse. Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta and Camorra from 1946 to the Present
Hodder & Stoughton 2013; US$ 29.89In MAFIA REPUBLIC, John Dickie, Professor of Italian Studies at University College, London and author of the international bestsellers COSA NOSTRA and MAFIA BROTHERHOODS, shows how the Italian mafias have grown in power and become more and more interconnected, with terrifying consequences. more...
Mafia Republic: Italy's Criminal Curse. Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta and Camorra from 1946 to the Present
Hodder & Stoughton 2013; Not AvailableIn MAFIA REPUBLIC, John Dickie, Professor of Italian Studies at University College, London and author of the international bestsellers COSA NOSTRA and MAFIA BROTHERHOODS, shows how the Italian mafias have grown in power and become more and more interconnected, with terrifying consequences. more...
Il Duce and His Women
Alma Books 2013; US$ 11.99The first biography to offer insights into Mussolini's private life, with a particular focus on his attitude toward women and his relationships with many mistresses, enriched by first-hand documents and previously unpublished photographs The figure of Benito Mussolini looms large as one of the most influential during the first half of the 20th... more...
The New Christians of Spanish Naples 1528-1671
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 80.00This study reveals the more complex reality of Early Modern Naples than what has commonly been represented, in which royal representatives in the city came to depend on the assistance of a series of merchants, financiers, and bureaucrats who shared a common identity as conversos, descendants of converted Jews. more...
Roman Legionary AD 69-161
Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 14.95Between AD 69 and 161 the composition of the Roman legions was transformed. Italians were almost entirely replaced by provincial recruits, men for whom Latin was at best a second language, and yet the 'Roman-ness' of these Germans, Pannonians, Spaniards, Africans and Syrians, fostered in isolated fortresses on the frontiers, was incredibly strong.... more...
The Other Side of the Tiber
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013; US$ 26.99A moving and illuminating memoir about a singular woman?s relationship with a fascinating and complex country A fresh, nuanced perspective on a profoundly perplexing country: this is what Wallis Wilde-Menozzi?s unique, captivating narrative promises?and delivers. The Other Side of the Tiber brings Italy to life in an entirely new way, treating... more...
Gusto for Things
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 44.00We live in a material world—our homes are filled with things, from electronics to curios and hand-me-downs, that disclose as much about us and our aspirations as they do about current trends. But we are not the first: the early modern period was a time of expanding consumption, when objects began to play an important role in defining gender... more...









