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  • Calamities and the Economy in Renaissance Italyby Guido Alfani

    Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 85.00

    Italy faced a number of catastrophes in the long sixteenth century. This economic and demographic history follows the consequences of these catastrophes - the action of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse - War, Famine and Plague, all followed by Death. more...

  • Cavour and Garibaldi 1860by Denis Mack Smith

    Cambridge University Press 1985; US$ 53.00

    An important study of the Risorgimento. devoted to seven crucial months in 1860. more...

  • The Complete Writings of an Italian Hereticby Olympia Morata; Holt N. Parker

    University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 30.00

    Winner of the 2004 Josephine Roberts Edition Prize from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. A brilliant scholar and one of the finest writers of her day, Olympia Morata (1526-1555) was attacked by some as a "Calvinist Amazon" but praised by others as an inspiration to all learned women. This book publishes, for the first time, all her... more...

  • Dark Age Liguriaby Ross Balzaretti

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 26.99

    Dark Age Liguria surveys the history of the Liguria region from c. 400 to c. 1050 AD, to provide a detailed case study of what happened here as Roman imperial rule ended. The book pulls together all the surviving evidence, written, archaeological, artistic and ecological, to propose that, in contrast with later periods, Ligurians looked north as much... more...

  • Geschichte Italiens im Mittelalterby Elke Goez

    Primus Verlag 2011; US$ 25.87

    Hauptbeschreibung Vom Untergang des Römischen Reiches bis zum Sacco di Roma zeichnet Elke Goez die mittelalterliche Geschichte Italiens klar und anschaulich nach. Unter der Herrschaft unterschiedlichster Fremdvölker stehend, entwickelte sich rasch die bekannte Kleingliedrigkeit, welche die Landkarte Italiens bis in die Neuzeit bestimmte. Die politische... more...

  • Il senso ritrovatoby Ervin Laszlo; Pier Mario Biava

    Springer 2012; US$ 31.99

    Stiamo vivendo una crisi sistemica, epocale, che non riguarda solo l’economia e la finanza, ma anche l’ecosistema, il nostro mondo di valori e la cultura su cui si è basata finora la nostra vita su questo pianeta. Di fronte a una crisi di queste proporzioni, occorre mettere in discussione il paradigma in base al quale si è organizzata... more...

  • Italyby Spencer M. DiScala

    Westview Press 2008; US$ 53.00

    Spans three centuries of Italian history, weaving together the country?s social, political, and economic developments and orienting them within the larger framework of European history. more...

  • The Legend of Dionby Lionel Jehuda Sanders

    Dundurn 2008; US$ 39.99

    This extraordinary study examines how the accounts of a historical figure, the so-called democrat and liberal Dion, have been distorted and reworked by ancient and modern writers alike. more...

  • The Medieval Idea of Law as Represented by Lucas de Penna (Routledge Revivals)by Walter Ullmann

    Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 39.95

    Upon its original publication in 1946, this work represented a new approach to medieval studies, offering indispensable analysis to the historian of legal, political and social ideas. Research into the original sources leads the author through unexplored realms of medieval thought. By contrasting contemporary opinions with those of his central figure,... more...

  • The Origins of the State in Italy, 1300-1600by Julius Kirshner

    University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 16.00

    The beginnings of the state in Europe is a central topic of contemporary historical research. The making of such early modern Italian regional states as Florence, the kingdom of Naples, Milan, and Venice exemplifies a decisive turn in the state tradition of Western Europe. The Origins of the State in Italy, 1300-1600 represents the best in American,... more...