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The
Hill Towns of Italy by Richard Kauffman (Photographer), Carol Field Paperback Published by Chronicle Books Publication date: Feb 1997 
This classic volume is a glorious tribute to one of the most beautiful
regions in the world. The Hill Towns of Italy, capturing in luminous
photographs the special feeling of this region, will serve as an
evocative memoir for those who have had the good fortune to visit the
hill towns and as an irresistible lure for those who have not yet made
the pilgrimage. 60+ full-color photos.
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Hidden Tuscany:
Unusual Destinations and Secret Places by Massimo Listri (Photographer), Cesare M. Cunaccia Hardcover, 192 pages Published by Rizzoli Publications Publication date: Apr 2000
With 200 glorious color photographs, Hidden Tuscany explores the
country churches, garden grottos, forgotten villas, and other
little-known gems off the beaten path in Italy's most popular and
picturesque region. Cunaccia's engaging text reveals the diverse
histories and influences of these hidden treasures.
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The
Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany by James Bentley, Hugh Palmer (Photographer) Hardcover Published by Thames & Hudson Publication date: Sep 1997
Bentley highlights 37 villages and towns, both for their intrinsic
beauty and for the part they have played in Tuscan history and
culture. Page after page of Palmer's magnificent color photos evoke
the beauty of the land. Specially compiled listings of hotels,
restaurants, and festivals complete the tribute to Tuscany and its
villages.
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Hilltowns by Norman F. Carver Hardcover Published by Documan Pr Publication date: Dec 1995 |
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Palaces
of Rome by Roberto Schezen (photographer), Caroline Vincenti Montanaro, Fabio Benzi Hardcover, 312 pages Published by Rizzoli Bookstore Publication date: Nov 1997 |
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Invisible
Cities by Italo Calvino, William Weaver (Translator) Paperback, 165 pages Published by Harcourt Brace Publication date: Jan 1986 Of
all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and
in the case of a marvelous invention like Invisible Cities,
perfectly irrelevant. Gore
Vidal, The New York Review of Books
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Italian
Folktales by Italo Calvino, George Martin (Translator) Paperback Published by Harcourt Brace Publication date: Dec 1992
Chosen by The New York Times as one of its best books in the year of
its original publication, this treasure trove of 200 lively Italian
folktales has won a cherished place among fans of the Brothers Grimm
and Hans Christian Andersen. In this collection, Calvino combines a
sensibility attuned to the fantastical with a singular writerly
ability to capture the visions and dreams of a culture.
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The
Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Paperback, 536 pages Published by Harvest Books Publication date: Sep 1994 In
seven days of apocalyptic terror, a killer strikes seven times--and
seven monks die. The year is 1327. The place is a wealthy abbey in
Italy. And the crimes committed there are beyond the wildest
imaginings. It will be the task of English Brother William of
Baskerville to decipher secret symbols and dig into the eerie
labyrinth of abbey life to solve the mystery.
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Il Nome Della Rosa by Umberto Eco Paperback, 536 pages Published by Distribooks Intl Publication date: Jan 1999 In
seven days of apocalyptic terror, a killer strikes seven times--and
seven monks die. The year is 1327. The place is a wealthy abbey in
Italy. And the crimes committed there are beyond the wildest
imaginings. It will be the task of English Brother William of
Baskerville to decipher secret symbols and dig into the eerie
labyrinth of abbey life to solve the mystery.
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Christ
Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year by Carlo Levi, Frances Frenaye (Translator) Paperback Published by Noonday Pr Publication date: Sep 1995 Has
been called in turn a diary, an album of sketches, a novelette, a
sociological study and a political essay. It has more than a trait of
each genre; yet it remains as hard to classify as every beautiful
book, or as the man who wrote this one.
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That
Awful Mess on Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda Paperback, 388 pages Published by George Braziller Publication date: Aug 1984 |
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History:
A Novel by Elsa Morante From
Library JournalWritten in 1974 but first published in the United States in 1977, this was Morante's first novel in 18 years. As the cryptic title indicates, the theme of this novel, said LJ's reviewer, is how "history obscures individual lives." Though the book portrays the brutal existence of one Italian family after World War II, LJ's reviewer added that "there is so much to praise in this long, wonderfully rich novel, including the effortless translation, that its flawsDoccasional clumsiness of narration, repetitionDare minor indeed" (LJ 4/15/77). The edition contains a new foreword by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. |
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Takeoff:
The Pilot's Lore by Daniele del Giudice, Joseph Farrell (Translator) Hardcover, 176 pages Published by Harcourt Brace Publication date: May 1997 ...
a wonderful book about the implacable condemnation of loving to
fly.... It is also an ode to fear ... The
New Yorker
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Bread
and Wine by Ignazio Silone Mass Market Paperback Published by New American Library Publication date: Aug 1988 |
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The
Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Erroll McDonald (Editor) Paperback Published by Pantheon Books Publication date: Aug 1991 A
classic of modern fiction. Set in the 1860s, THE LEOPARD is the
spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy
threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.
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One, No
One, and One Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello, William Weaver (Translator) Paperback, 160 pages Published by Marsilio Pub Publication date: Sep 1992 |
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Confessions
of Zeno by Italo Svevo, Beryl De Zoete (Translator) Paperback, 416 pages Published by Vintage Books Publication date: Jun 1989 The
pliant protagonist of Italo Svevo's 1923 classic Confessions of
Zeno is, among other things, a bumbling businessman, a
guilt-ridden adulterer, and a hardcore nicotine addict. What Zeno
Cosini most definitely is not is wordless. For the novel is in
fact a dense and comically excruciating exercise in self-revelation,
undertaken by the narrator as part of his psychoanalytic treatment.
Zeno never finds a cure for his affliction, which seems to be a strain
of continental angst. Yet his reflections remain as audacious as they
are exhaustive--and, much of the time, masterfully absorbing classic
of modern fiction.
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Cosima by Grazia Deledda, Martha King (Translator) Paperback, 224 pages Published by Italica Press, Inc. Publication date: Sep 1998 Cosima
is the fictionalized autobiography of Grazia Deledda, the first
Italian woman to win a Nobel Prize for Literature (1926). Focusing on
her early life in rural Sardinia, the novel mixes realism with the
perceptions of young Cosima to show a world both terrible and
wonderful. Cosima is part of a large family full of tragedy: her
scholarly eldest brother becomes an alcoholic, her father dies,
another brother manages the family interests but keeps most of the
income for himself. Cosima carries on, finding beauty and learning
about life...From
500 Great Books by Women; review by Erica Bauermeister
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The
Silent Duchess: A Novel by Dacia Maraini, Elspeth Spottiswood (Translator) Hardcover, 272 pages Published by Feminist Pr Publication date: Sep 1998 In
this compelling and vivid historical novel, Marianna Ucria, born in
Sicily in the early 18th century, chronicles her own life and that of
three generations of her family--aided by her extraordinary ability to
"hear" others' thoughts.
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The
Conformist by Alberto Moravia, Tami Calliope (Translator) Paperback, 375 pages Published by Steerforth Pr Publication date: Nov 1999
Secrecy and silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of
The Conformist. He's a man with everything under control - a wife who
loves him, colleagues who respect him, and the hidden power that comes
with his secret work for the Italian political police during the
Mussolini years. But his perfect life becomes a nightmare when he's
ordered to kill his former professor to demonstrate his loyalty to the
Fascist state.
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Open
City: Seven Writers in Postwar Rome: Ignazio Silone,
Giorgio Bassani, Alberto
Moravia, Elsa Morante, Natalia Ginzburg, Carlo Levi,
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Artemisia
(European Woman Writers) by Anna Banti, Shirley D'Ardia Caracciolo (Translator) Paperback Published by Univ of Nebraska Pr Publication date: Mar 1995 Artemisia
is a work of love and devotion. The known facts concerning the
seventeenth-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi are few and
easily contained in a short paragraph in the introduction. Art
historian and writer Anna Banti (Lucia Lopresti) became intrigued with
Artemisia, invented what she did not know, then saw her manuscript
destroyed in World War II. When she began the manuscript again, her
own experience entered in and challenged the boundaries of traditional
biography. Across time, without time, author and subject speak to each
other...From 500
Great Books by Women; review by Erica Bauermeister
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The
Aeneid by Vergil, Charles J. Billson (Translator) Paperback Published by Dover Pubns Publication date: Oct 1995
Aeneas, legendary survivor of the fall of Troy and father of the Roman
race, is the hero in this archtypal story of dispossession and defeat,
love and war, in which Virgil portrays human life in all its nobility
and suffering.
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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, A.S.L. Farquharson (Translator) Hardcover Published by Knopf Publication date: May 1992
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was a contemplative and good man whose
Meditations reveal a mind possessing great stature and humility.
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The
Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar, S.A. Hanford (Translator) Paperback Published by Viking Pr Publication date: Feb 1983 Gallia
est omnis divisa in partes tres... It is, perhaps, the most famous
opening line of any memoir in Western civilization... This is the only
military campaign of the ancient world for which we have a chronicle
written by the general who conducted it, and Julius Caesar is an
insightful historian, with a keen eye for detail.
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The
Annals of Imperial Rome by Cornelius Tacitus, Michael Grant (Translator) Paperback, 455 pages Published by Viking Pr Publication date: Jun 1956 |
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The
Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics) by Suetonius, Robert Graves (Translator) Paperback, 363 pages Published by Viking Pr Publication date: Aug 1991
Suetonius' honesty makes this the most vivid account we have of such
Roman rulers as Julius Caesar, Augustus, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero.
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The
Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives: Marius, Sulla,
Crassus, Pompey, Caesar, Cicero (Penguin Classics) by R. Plutarchus, Rex Warner (Translator) Paperback, 361 pages Published by Penguin USA Publication date: Feb 1954 |
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Lucretius:
The Way Things Are. The De Rerum Natura of Titus
Lucretius by Lucretius, Rolfe Humphries (Translator) Paperback Published by Indiana Univ Pr Publication date: Dec 1968 |
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City of
God [ABRIDGED] by St. Augustine Paperback Published by Image Books Publication date: Feb 1958
St. Augustine's masterpiece is an interpretation of history in terms
of the struggle between good and evil: the City of God in conflict
with the City of the Devil. Abridged for the modern reader.
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The
Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius Paperback Published by Viking Pr Publication date: Aug 1987 |
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The
Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso by Dante Alighieri, Allen Mandelbaum (Translator) Hardcover Published by Knopf Publication date: Aug 1995 |
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The
Canzoniere, Or, Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta by Francesco Petrarca, Mark Musa (Translator) Paperback, 800 pages Published by Indiana Univ Pr Publication date: Apr 1999
"As well as skillful and fluent verse renderings of the 366
lyrics that make up this milestone in the development of Western
poetic tradition, Musa offers copious and up-to-date annotation to
each poem . . . along with a substantial, sensitive, and intelligent
introduction that is genuinely helpful for the first-time reader and
thought provoking for Petrarch scholars and other
medievalists."--Choice
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Orlando
Furioso (Classics Series) by Ludovico Ariosto, Barbara Reynolds (Translator) Paperback Published by Viking Pr Publication date: Aug 1975 |
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Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni, Bruce Penman (Designer) Paperback, 720 pages Published by Penguin USA Publication date: Mar 1984
Set in Lombardy in the years 1628-30, The Betrothed tells the
dramatic tale of two young lovers in a time of war, famine, and
plague. Following them through exile and suffering, it displays great
richness of characterization and a profound insight into the workings
of history and the politics of the time. First published in 1827 as I
promessi sposi, The Betrothed is the first modern Italian novel.
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Memoirs
of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, Grace Frick (Translator) Paperback Published by Noonday Pr Publication date: Sep 1981
Historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published in 1951 as
Memoires d'Hadrien. In the book, Yourcenar creates a vivid and
historically accurate portrait of the 2nd-century Roman Empire under
Hadrian's rule. The work is a fictional first-person narrative in the
form of Hadrian's letters--mostly to his nephew Marcus
Aurelius--written shortly before his death. Contemplative and
analytical recollections of his accomplishments, his hopes for Rome,
and his personal relationships, the letters reveal Hadrian to be a
highly intelligent, often wise man, conscious of the great power he
wields. The
Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature , April 1, 1995
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Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica Lainez Paperback, Spanish edition Published by Noonday Pr Publication date: Sep 1981 Bomarzo;
a novel
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The
Agony and the Ectasy: A Biographical Novel of
Michelangelo by Irving Stone Mass market Paperback, 776 pages Published by New American Library Publication date: Dec 1996 |
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I,
Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius,
Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D.54 by Robert Graves Paperback, 468 pages Published by Vintage Books Publication date: Nov 1989
Historical novel set in 1st-century-AD Rome by Robert Graves,
published in 1934. The book is written as an autobiographical memoir
by Roman emperor Claudius. Physically weak, afflicted with stammering,
and inclined to drool, Claudius is an embarrassment to his family and
is shunted to the background of imperial affairs. The benefits of his
seeming ineffectuality are twofold: he becomes a scholar and
historian, and he is spared the worst cruelties inflicted on the
imperial family by its own...The
Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature , April 1, 1995
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The Oxford-Duden Pictorial Italian and English Dictionary by M. Luisa heinz-Mazzoni, Paola Scaltriti, M. Clark (Editors) Paperback Published by Clarendon Pr Publication date: Jun 1995
Now available in paperback, this reference provides parallel English
and Italian word lists containing 29,000 items for each language.
Based on the premise that pictures can more clearly convey certain
kinds of information, this pictorial dictionary is divided into 384
sections which cover a broad range of subjects. Includes an
alphabetized index. 384 illustrations, 6 in color.
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Eating
and Drinking in Italy by MAndy Herbach, Michael Dillon Paperback, 112 pages Published by Consortium Sales & Dist Publication date: may 1999
You're in Italy and you think you know Italian food. Would you eat
stinco? We would. Menus in a foreign language are confusing and filled
with slang and idioms. This guide will help you find your way around a
menu written in Italian. It gives you the freedom to enter places you
might never have before and order dinner without shouting, pointing or
hand waving...The
author, Andy Herbach
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