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Al Dente, The Adventures of a Gastronome in Italy
• William Black
• FOOD
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William Black tosses a few receipts into this mix of travel, gastronomy and family history.
(ITL548, $13.95)
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The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance
• Peter Murray
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A classic, informative guide to Renaissance architecture throughout Italy. with black-and-white photographs and site plans. Ideal for travelers to Italy with an interest in architecture.
(ITL34, $20.40)
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The Art of the Renaissance
• Peter Murray
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A classic, illustrated survey of the world of the Renaissance and its art. With chapters on Florence and its artists, the Netherlands, early illustrated books, and many individual artists.
(ITL14, $18.95)
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The Birth of Venus, A Novel
• Sarah Dunant
• LITERATURE
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A rich novel of art, passion and patronage, memorably set in late 15th-century Florence and prominently featuring the famously pious reformer Savonarola.
(ITL532, $13.95)
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Blue Guide Florence
• Alta MacAdam
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive guide to Florence, heavily focused on art and architecture. This edition also includes practical information on hotels, restaurants and shops.
(ITL137, $27.95)
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Blue Guide Northern Italy, from the Alps to the Adriatic
• Paul Blanchard
• GUIDEBOOK
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This guide by a popular tour leader provides a thorough overview of the history, art and architecture of northern Italy from Trieste across to the Valle d'Aosta, Venice, Verona, Milan, Genoa and Bologna.
(ITL48, $32.95)
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Blue Guide Tuscany
• Alta MacAdam
• GUIDEBOOK
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A guide to the cultural riches of Tuscany with a focus on history, art and architecture. Serious-minded travelers will not want to be without it.
(ITL43, $24.95)
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Bonaventure: The Life of St. Francis
• Ewart Cousins
• RELIGION
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The Church's official life of St Francis, written by the Franciscan monk Bonaventure in the 13th century.
(ITL602, $11.95)
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Cadogan Guide Umbria
• Dana Facaros
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive practical guide in the British series.
(ITL868, $18.95)
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Casa Rossa
• Francesca Marciano
• LITERATURE
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A vivid novel following the lives of a mother, daughter, and granddaughter from Puglia over the course of the 20th century, opening as the narrator prepares to sell Casa Rossa, the family farm.
(ITL534, $14.95)
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Cathedrals and Castles, Building in the Middle Ages
• Alain Erlande-Brandenburg
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
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A pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages featuring hundreds of drawings and color illustrations and a brief chronology.
(MED07, $12.95)
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Central Italy Map
• Touring Club Italiano
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A regional map of Central Italy, including Tuscany, Umbria and Rome, at a scale of 1:400,000.
(ITL103, $12.95)
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Charming Small Hotel Guides, Tuscany & Umbria : Including Florence and Siena
• Fiona Duncan
• Leonie Glass
• GUIDEBOOK
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A full page with a color photograph is dedicated to each entry in this guide focused on hotels with 20 bedrooms or less.
(ITL771, $15.95)
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Christ Stopped at Eboli, The Story of a Year
• Carlo Levi
• Frances Frenaye
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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An affecting memoir of southern Italy, originally published in 1947, it stems from the author's forced relocation to the region as punishment for anti-fascist political activity.
(ITL09, $14.00)
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The City of Florence, Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings
• R.W.B. Lewis
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• FAVORITE
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A vivid tour of the city and its riches by the fine biographer of Edith Wharton and Henry James. Lewis has written what he calls "a partial biography of Florence," beautifully interweaving the personal and the historical.
(ITL47, $19.00)
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
• Jacob Burckhardt
• S. G. C. Middlemore
• Peter Gay
• HISTORY
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A classic survey of life, society and culture suring the Italian Renaissance.
(ITL307, $15.95)
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D.H. Lawrence and Italy
• D.H. Lawrence
• Tim Parks
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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This omnibus Penguin Classics edition includes three travel tales, each very different in tone and all wonderful: "Sea and Sardinia" is a nostalgic look at traditional ways of life; "Twilight in Italy" an evocation of Lawrence's memorable stay on Lake Garda; and "Etruscan Places" his musings on ancient sites, including the painted tombs of Tarquinia.
(ITL62, $18.00)
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Dante
• R.W. Lewis
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A brief, literate biography of the exceptionally literate Dante Alighieri.
(ITL313, $19.95)
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The Dark Heart of Italy
• Tobias Jones
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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An insightful portrait of contemporary Italy by a roving British journalist living in Parma.
(ITL533, $15.00)
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Edith Wharton's Italian Gardens
• Vivian Russell
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Edith Wharton's essays on the magnificent villa gardens of Lombardy, Veneto, Florence, Siena and Rome are as full of interest today as when they were first published in 1904.
(ITL716, $45.00)
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Eyewitness Guide Florence & Tuscany
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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Superbly illustrated, this compact guide shows the neighborhoods, museums, shops and sites of Florence and surroundings in full color.
(ITL46, $25.00)
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Eyewitness Guide Italy
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This superb guide features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(ITL32, $30.00)
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Fodor's Exploring Italy
• Fodor's
• GUIDEBOOK
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An excellent, up-to-date overview of Italy and its attractions.
(ITL73, $22.00)
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Fodor's Florence's 25 Best
• Fodor's
• GUIDEBOOK
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This shirt-pocket guide includes an excellent map and essential information on the city's highlights, including sightseeing, restaurants and shopping.
(ITL140, $11.95)
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Fodor's See It Italy
• Fodor's
• GUIDEBOOK
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Fodor's informative guide to touring Italy, notable for its especially vibrant presentation of the country.
(ITL550, $24.95)
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The Food of Italy
• Waverly Root
• FOOD
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Evocative of Italy and its diverse cuisine, this classic book, organized geographically, offers a cook's tour of the country. It's a well-informed and wonderful culinary guide.
(ITL75, $19.95)
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For the Beauty of the Earth: Birding, Opera, and Other Journeys
• Thomas Urquhart
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Urquhart chronicles a lifelong affair with nature, combined with a passion for music, as he travels-- and bird watches-- through pastoral England, Italy, the Camargue in Provence, and the villages of Mali.
(BRD35, $15.00)
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Frommer's Tuscany & Umbria
• Reid Bramblett
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide in the popular series, revised annually.
(ITL83, $19.99)
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The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
• Robert A. Scott
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs.
(EUR190, $17.95)
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Here Is Where We Meet
• John Berger
• LITERATURE
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This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow.
(EUR189, $14.00)
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The House of Medici, Its Rise and Fall
• Christopher Hibbert
• HISTORY
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A well-written, entertaining history of the Medicis in Renaissance Florence. Great to read before going to Florence, where the influence of the Medicis and the artists they supported is still very much in evidence.
(ITL135, $16.00)
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Il Postino
• Michael Radford
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A shy Italian postman who learns the ways of poetry and romance while delivering mail to the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
(ITL541, $19.99)
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The Inferno of Dante, A New Verse Translation
• Dante Alighieri
• Robert Pinsky
• LITERATURE
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The celebrated modern translation of Dante's "Inferno."
(ITL411, $11.00)
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Innocence
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• LITERATURE
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A comic novel set in mid-twentieth century Italy, by the inimitable Penelope Fitzgerald, author of "The Blue Flower".
(ITL317, $12.00)
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Insight Guide Italy
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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An illustrated overview of Italy with essays on its attractions, history and culture.
(ITL108, $23.95)
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Insight Guide Mediterranean Cruises
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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Covering 120 ports of call throughout the Mediterranean from the Canary Islands to Egypt.
(MED94, $22.95)
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Italian Cinema, From Neorealism to the Present
• Peter Bondanella
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A scholarly history modern Italian film.
(ITL350, $29.95)
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Italian English Bilingual Visual Dictionary
• DK Publishing
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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With thousands of neatly arranged color photographs, this compact book is impressively comprehensive, covering everything from the basics of la casa (house) to the vocabulary of le granaglie e i legumi secchi (grains and legumes).
(ITL626, $12.95)
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Italian Hours
• Henry James
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A classic series of travel essays written between 1872 and 1909 on the art, religion and people of Italy. James is an observant guide to Rome, Naples, Florence and other great destinations in the 19th century.
(ITL07, $16.00)
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Italian Indispensables Vocabulary Builder
• Audio-Forum
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A short audio program wiith 50 common words and phrases for travelers.
(ITL401, $9.95)
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Italian Journey, 1786-1788
• Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• W.H. Auden
• Elizabeth Meyer
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The journals and letters from Goethe's 'grand tour' of southern Italy as translated by W.H. Auden. In addition to much musing on philosophy and art, it includes some wonderful writing on the Italian landscape.
(ITL144, $17.00)
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Italian Villas and Their Gardens
• Edith Wharton
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A facsimile edition of Wharton's witty, astute essays on the history and pleasures of Italy's famous villas. With photographs and the original, full-page illustrations by Maxfield Parrish.
(ITL91, $35.00)
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Italian, A Language Map
• Kristine K. Kershul
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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This durable, foldout card, featuring 1,000 words and phrases, works as a quick reference for travelers.
(ITL645, $7.95)
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Italy and Its Invaders
• Girolamo Arnaldi
• HISTORY
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A wide-ranging history of the many empires and world powers that have invaded Italy, and their lasting influences, both positive and negative, on Italian art, architecture and culture up to the present day.
(ITL661, $19.95)
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Italy Map
• Borch Maps
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A laminated map at a scale of 1:800,000.
(ITL19, $11.95)
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Italy Northeast Map
• Michelin Travel Publications
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(ITL72, $11.95)
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Italy, A Short History
• Harry Hearder
• HISTORY
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Elegantly written, generous and informative, this compact book takes in the sweep of Italian history from the Roman Republic through the Renaissance, World War II and up to the present.
(ITL56, $24.99)
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Italy, A Traveler's Literary Companion
• Lawrence Venuti
• ANTHOLOGY
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Not just a literary companion, this anthology is also a who's who of contemporary Italian writers that captures the spirit, history and allure of the country.
(ITL466, $14.95)
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Karen Brown's Tuscany & Umbria, Exceptional Places to Stay & Itineraries
• June Brown
• Clare Brown
• Nicole Franchini
• GUIDEBOOK
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A survey of inns and other lodging of character, along with suggested itineraries and highlights of the region.
(ITL768, $19.95)
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The Lives of the Artists, Vol 1
• Giorgio Vasari
• Julia Conway and Peter Bondanella
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Written in the mid-16th century, Vasari starts with Giotto as painting's prophet and ends with Michelangelo as its messiah in these short, influential biographies.
(ITL17, $14.00)
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M, The Man Who Became Caravaggio
• Peter Robb
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A masterful biography of the Renaissance painter by the author of "Midnight in Sicily."
(ART47, $22.00)
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Michelin Green Guide Tuscany
• Michelin Travel Publications
• GUIDEBOOK
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(ITL139, $21.95)
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The Middle Sea, A History of the Mediterranean
• John Julius Norwich
• HISTORY
• NEW
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A marvelous writer who has already tackled Byzantium, the Normans in Sicily and Venice, Norwich spins his magic in this story of culture, trade and politics, royalty and rulers, wars and religion in the Mediterranean.
(MED98, $20.00)
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Modigliani
• Doris Krystof
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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This slim illustrated volume showcases Modigliani's distinct colorful style of painting and portraiture in the handsome Taschen style.
(ART44, $9.99)
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The Olive, Tree of Civilization
• John Train
• Mark E. Smith
• HISTORY
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A history of the celebrated vegetable and the mythology behind it.
(NAT72, $25.00)
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One-Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Italy
• Paolo Lazzarin
• GUIDEBOOK
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Each charming town gets an appreciative essay and evocative color photographs in this handsome tribute and excellent guide.
(ITL546, $45.00)
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Pimsleur Quick & Simple Italian
• Pimsleur Language Method
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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Four audio CDs with eight 30-minute lessons in basic Italian, covering elementary vocabulary and phrases used in travel and everyday situations.
(ITL630, $19.95)
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Renaissance Florence, The Invention of a New Art
• A. Richard Turner
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A cultural and social history of the city focusing on the great art and famous monuments, featuring vivid color pictures and illustrations.
(ITL50, $24.95)
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Rome Antics
• David MacAulay
• HISTORY
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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The incomparable MacAulay depicts Rome, ancient and modern, in this illustrated book told from the point of view of a wayward pigeon. For readers of all ages.
(ITL64, $18.00)
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Rough Guide Italy
• Ros Belford
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive guide in the British series with a good overview of culture and history, dozens of sketch maps and extensive listings.
(ITL328, $22.95)
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Short Stories in Italian, Racconti in Italiano
• Nick Roberts
• LITERATURE
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These modern tales in the bilingual series of Penguin Parallell Texts make for good reading in any language.
(ITL730, $13.00)
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A Small Place In Italy
• Eric Newby
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Naturally, the Newbys return to Italy. In this warm tale of 25 splendid years at their farm in northwest Tuscany, their house I Castagni plays as much a role (it was a ruin) as the uproarious Newby, the unflappable Wanda and their many eccentric neighbors.
(ITL111, $14.99)
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The Stones of Florence
• Mary McCarthy
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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The classic history of the art, architecture and culture of Florence. Novelist McCarthy takes us on a quick and vivid tour of the history of the Medicis and the city of Florence, focusing on Renaissance art.
(ITL15, $14.00)
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
• Anthony Minghella
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A suspenseful thriller of obsession and jealousy starring Matt Damon and Jude Law, based on the popular mystery by Patricia Highsmith.
(ITL542, $14.99)
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That Fine Italian Hand
• Paul Hoffman
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An affectionate -- and insightful -- portrait of a people.
(ITL346, $17.00)
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Travelers' Tales, A Woman's Europe
• Marybeth Bond
• Mary Morris
• ANTHOLOGY
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Visit Europe through the eyes of women writers, including Frances Mayes and Jan Morris.
(EUR160, $17.95)
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A Tuscan Childhood
• Kinta Beevor
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A vibrant, rosy-hued memoir of growing up privileged, bohemian and English in Tuscany during the interwar period.
(ITL388, $13.95)
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Tuscany Map
• Touring Club Italiano
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The most detailed map of Tuscany available, at a scale of 1:200,000. Imported from Italy.
(ITL102, $12.95)
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The Vinegar of Spilamberto, And Other Italian Adventures With Food, Places, And People
• Doris Muscatine
• Alice Waters
• FOOD
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An account of the author's travels and love of Italy, its food and culture.
(ITL662, $15.00)
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Walking
• Henry David Thoreau
• REFERENCE
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You may want to carry this small volume in your daypack for inspiration. In it, Thoreau offers his meditations on the spiritual benefits of this most civilized form of travel.
(WLK04, $9.95)
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Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria
• James Ladsun
• Pia Davis
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide to walking and eating your way through the region, this book includes 40 suggested itineraries, mostly day hikes, with maps, details on local attractions, and illustrations.
(ITL97, $20.00)
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World Food Italy
• Gabriella Cossi
• Matthew Evans
• FOOD
• OUT OF PRINT
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Take this book along to Italy and eat knowledgeably after taking in the author's explanations of ingredients, regional specialties, classic dishes and methods of preparation.
(ITL386, $12.95)
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The World of Venice
• Jan Morris
• HISTORY
• FAVORITE
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Morris displays her talent for research, anecdote and well-wrought prose in this spirited history of a beloved city.
(ITL12, $16.00)
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