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Under the Tuscan Sunby Frances Mayes
Broadway Books 2003; US$ 11.99Frances Mayes—widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer—opens the door to a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. In evocative language, she brings the reader along as she discovers the beauty and simplicity of life in Italy. Mayes also creates dozens of delicious seasonal recipes from her traditional kitchen and simple garden, all of which she includes in the book. Doing for Tuscany what M.F.K. Fisher and Peter Mayle did for Provence, Mayes writes about the tastes and pleasures of a foreign country with gusto and passion. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
The Companion Guide to Romeby Georgina Masson; John Fort
Boydell & Brewer 2009; US$ 29.95Six years after his first, very thorough, revision, John Fort has returned to the task, so that this long-honoured guidebook, regarded by the discerning visitor, since its first publication forty years ago, as THE indispensable introduction to the glories more...
Rome in the Eastby Warwick Ball
Routledge 1999; US$ 165.00Rome in the East provides a lavishly illustrated and arresting study of the influence of Near Eastern culture on the Roman world, which overturns received wisdom about Rome as the bastion of European culture. more...
Constructing Identities in Late Antiquityby Richard Miles
Routledge 1999; US$ 130.00Examines the theme of identity: geographic, ethnic , religious, status and sex-based. Discussions of Roman texts and images show how constructions of identity and culture contributed to the creation of "late antiquity" as a historical concept. more...
Cultural Identity in the Roman Empireby Ray Laurence; Joanne Berry
Routledge 1998; US$ 41.95Cultural Identity in the Roman Empire breaks new ground, arguing that the idea of a unified and easily defined Roman culture is over simplistic, and offers alternative theories and models. more...
Roman Pompeiiby Ray Laurence
Routledge 1996; US$ 41.95A look at the archaeological and literary evidence relating to Pompeii from the viewpoint of social scientist, architect and geographer which enhances our understanding of the Roman world. more...
Pompeiiby Alison E. Cooley; M.G.L. Cooley
Routledge 2004; US$ 39.95This book presents translations of a wide range of written records which give a vivid picture of what life was like in the twon. Sources range from the labels on wine jars to scribbled insults, from adverts for gladiatorial contests to love poetry. more...
Globalizing Roman Cultureby Richard Hingley
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 39.95A study of identity and social change in the Roman empire and the relationship of this knowledge to understanding of the contemporary world. more...
The English in Rome, 1362-1420by Margaret Harvey; Rosamond McKitterick; Christine Carpenter; Jonathan Shepard
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 46.00This study centres on the early archives of the Venerabile Collegio Inglese in Rome. It examines the English community in Rome, in its political, commercial and religious setting, between 1362, when the first English hospice for poor people and pilgrims was founded, and 1420. more...
Living on the Edge in Leonardo?s Florenceby Gene Brucker
University of California Press 2005; US$ 40.00In Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence, an internationally renowned master of the historian's craft provides a splendid overview of Italian history from the Black Death to the rise of the Medici in 1434 and beyond into the early modern period. Gene Brucker explores those pivotal years in Florence and ranges over northern Italy, with forays into the histories of Genoa, Milan, and Venice. The ten essays, three of which have never before been published, exhibit Brucker's graceful intelligence, his command of the archival sources, and his ability to make history accessible to anyone interested in this place and period. Whether he is writing about a case in the criminal archives, about a citation from Machiavelli, or the concept of modernity,... more...









