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The Everything Travel Guide to Italyby Kim Kavin
F+W Media 2010; US$ 15.95From the fashionable beaches of Capri to the awe-inspiring ruins of ancient Rome, Italy has something for everyone. This guide will help you get the most out of your trip to this beautiful country. Whether you want to discover the rural beauty of Tuscany, take a gondola ride through Venice, or admire the glory of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, this all-new guide shows you how! Here you'll find the latest on: The best places to stay and dine in every region of Italy; Sample itineraries for trips ranging from a day to two months; Must-see ruins, museums, and natural wonders; Useful Italian words and phrases to make the trip go smoothly; A guide to world-famous Italian wine and cuisine; and more. Filled with practical tips and exciting travel... more...
La Bella Vitaby Aminda Leigh
F+W Media 2012; US$ 15.95Carla Bruni. Giorgio Armani. Luciano Pavarotti. Giada De Laurentiis. Sophia Loren. The Leonardos (Da Vinci e DiCaprio). From fettucine to fashion and back again, nobody does La Bella Vita like the Italians. Whether preparing a meal or sculpting the David, singing an aria or seducing a lover, Italians take their time, and do it right! In this bellissimo primer, Romans Aminda Leigh and Pietro Pesce show you how to achieve that sensual perfection in everything you do, leading you on a smolderingly hot journey through each of the five senses: Sight (vista): Toss the shabby, shapeless clothes and dress up! Italians take meticulous care of their appearance and are always fashionable. Sound (udito): Act like an Italian and emphasize... more...
Fascist Ideologyby Aristotle Kallis
Routledge 2000; US$ 38.95A fascinating study of the expansionist visions of Hitler and Mussolini which enlightens our understanding of the dynamics and evolution of the fascist policies of Italy and Germany to the end of the Second World War. more...
Mussolini and Fascist Italyby Martin Blinkhorn
Routledge 1994; US$ 15.95In this fully revised and updated pamphlet, Martin Blinkhorn explains the significance of the man, the movement and the regime which dominated Italian life between 1922 and the Second World War. more...
Racial Theories in Fascist Italyby Aaron Gillette
Routledge 2001; US$ 160.00This volume examines the role played by race and racism in the development of Italian identity during the facist period and will be of interest to historians, political scientists and scholars concerned with the development of facism. more...
Politics and Religion in Napoleonic Italyby Michael Broers
Routledge 2001; US$ 44.95In this fascinating study, Mike Broers explores the intense cultural conflict created by French rule in Italy at the start of the nineteenth century. more...
Italian Risorgimentoby Lucy Riall
Routledge 1994; US$ 32.95Lucy Riall's engaging account is the first book of its kind on the upheavals of the years between 1815 and 1860, when a series of crises destabilised the states of Restoration Italy and led to the creation of a troubled nation state. more...
Italy and the Wider Worldby R.J.B. Bosworth
Routledge 1995; US$ 135.00`It would be difficult to imagine a more wittier or stimulating text.' Paul Preston, LSE. Bosworth challenges many aspects of current Italian histor- iography and offers an original and lively vision of the place of Italy in modern history. more...
Archaeology of Ancient Sicilyby R. Ross Holloway
Routledge 2000; US$ 47.95The standard work on the archaeology of ancient Sicily, Holloway's now updated study provides the only comprehensive introduction to the wealth of artefacts and monuments discovered on the island. more...
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italyby Jacob Burckhardt
Random House Publishing Group 2000; US$ 11.99Jacob Burckhardt was born in 1818 in Basel, Switzerland. He studied history at the University of Berlin and taught art history and the Italian Renaissance in Berlin and Basel. His essay, as he called The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, was first published in 1860. Rich in its detailed account of the arts, fashions, manners, and thought of one of the most innovative eras in human history, this brilliant panorama of Renaissance life is also a thorough examination of the nature of civilization and of our place within it. Burckhardt's encyclopedic knowledge, his mastery of style, and his genius for synthesis make this one of the few classics of history and the prototype for cultural history. Burckhardt's The Age of Constantine the... more...









