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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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Architecture in Italy 1500-1600
• Wolfgang Lotz
• Deborah Howard
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A classic, comprehensive introduction to Italian architecture of the 16th century.
(ITL247, $37.00)
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Art and Society in the Middle Ages
• Georges Duby
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A study of the relationship between the production of art and the nature of Medieval society.
(EUR85, $30.55)
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Art in Renaissance Italy
• Gary M. Radke
• John T. Paoletti
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A complete, scholarly and remarkably readable overview of Italian Renaissance painting, sculpture and architecture. The authors examine the political, social and artistic currents that produced the unprecedented art of the 15th-17th centuries. With 600 illustrations, more than 200 in color.
(ITL412, $85.00)
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art/shop/eat Milan
• Paul Blanchard
• GUIDEBOOK
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Blue Guide's compact, illustrated guidebook with excellent local maps. The book includes not only museums, shops and restaurants, but also not-to-be-missed sites and attractions by neighborhood. The perfect addendum to the Blue Guide Northern Italy (ITL48).
(ITL764, $13.95)
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Authentic Piedmont-Aosta Valley Guide
• Touring Club of Italy
• GUIDEBOOK
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This compact, illustrated guide by Touring Club Italiano includes Turin, Monferrato and Langhe.
(ITL858, $20.95)
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Birds of Europe
• Killian Mullarney
• Lars Svensson
• Dan Zetterstrom
• Peter J. Grant
• FIELD GUIDE
• FAVORITE
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A Princeton field guide to European birds, featuring 3,500 color illustrations that depict 722 species found across the continent.
(FG47, $29.95)
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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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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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The Charterhouse of Parma
• Henri Stendhal
• Richard Howard
• LITERATURE
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Stendahl's novel of a young aristocrat in early 19th-century northern Italy.
(ITL208, $11.95)
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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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A Concise History of Italy
• Christopher Duggan
• HISTORY
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A history of Italy from the fall of the Roman Empire to the present day.
(ITL35, $26.99)
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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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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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Eyewitness Guide Umbria
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A marvelously illustrated, compact guide to the culture, history and attractions of Umbria, organized geographically and especially helpful for its innovative site plans, building diagrams and local maps.
(ITL512, $20.00)
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Fodor's Milan's 25 Best
• Fodor's
• GUIDEBOOK
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A shirt-pocket guide to Milan, this slim book includes an excellent map of the center of the city and essential information on its highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing.
(ITL608, $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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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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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
• Giorgio Bassini
• William Weaver
• LITERATURE
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This powerful book, set in Ferrara, deals with unrequited love and classist society in the time of Mussolini.
(ITL205, $13.00)
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Giacomo Puccini
• Conrad Wilson
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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An analysis of the legendary composer, his times and his music
(GEN141, $24.95)
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Giuseppe Garibaldi, A Biography of the Father of Modern Italy
• Benedict S. Lipira
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A biography of the 19th-century Italian nationalist, published by the author.
(ITL303, $15.95)
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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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A Hedonist's Guide to Milan
• Fleur Britten
• GUIDEBOOK
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(ITL864, $16.95)
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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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A History of Fascism, 1914-1945
• Stanley G. Payne
• HISTORY
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A schoalrly, comprehensive history with a focus on Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.
(EUR132, $24.95)
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History of Italian Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
• David G. Wilkins
• Frederick Hartt
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A well-illustrated history of Italian art from the 13th through the 16th centuries.
(ITL308, $111.80)
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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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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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Insight Guide Northern Italy
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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An illustrated overview of northern Italy with essays on its attractions, history and culture.
(ITL190, $24.95)
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Inventing Leonardo
• A. Richard Turner
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Turner, a leading art historian of the Renaissance, offers a lively appraisal of the controversial genius. It's an elegant and stimulating book.
(ITL79, $22.95)
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Italia, The Art of Living Italian Style
• Edmund Howard
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A beautifully illustrated tour of Italy's most characteristic and striking architecture, landscapes and design, with accompanying essays on each photograph.
(ITL398, $40.00)
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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 Food
• Julia Child
• Elizabeth David
• FOOD
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A literary, aromatic survey of Italy's many regions and regional cooking with receipes.
(ITL298, $16.00)
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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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The Italian Renaissance Reader
• Julia Conway and Peter Bondanella
• Mark Musa
• ANTHOLOGY
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Introducing artists and thinkers of the Renaissance, this colelction includes selections by Francesca Petrarca, Giovanni Boccacio, Leonardo Da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli and Benvenuto Cellini.
(ITL218, $17.00)
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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 of Italy at a scale of 1:800,000.
(ITL19, $11.95)
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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 Italy B & B, Exceptional Places to Stay & Itineraries
• Nicole Franchini
• GUIDEBOOK
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A survey of highly recommended bed and breakfasts.
(ITL291, $19.95)
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Karen Brown's Italy Hotels, Exceptional Places to Stay & Itineraries
• Clare Brown
• GUIDEBOOK
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A guide to lodging of character and itineraries.
(ITL290, $19.95)
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Knopf City Guide Milan
• Knopf Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A vibrant, colorful guide to Milan -- small enough to fit in your pocket.
(ITL123, $14.95)
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Knopf Mapguide, Italian Lakes
• Knopf Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the region, featuring fold-out maps.
(ITL808, $9.95)
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Knopf Mapguide, Milan
• Knopf Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the city, featuring fold-out maps.
(ITL809, $9.95)
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Leonardo da Vinci
• Kenneth Clark
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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With 128 well integrated plates and a useful chronology, this authoritative and informative book has become the standard introduction to da Vinci and his work.
(ITL78, $21.95)
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Lonely Planet Milan Encounter
• Donna Wheeler
• GUIDEBOOK
• COMING IN JANUARY
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This lively shirt pocket guide to the city, jammed with personal recommendations and photographs, also includes a pull-out map.
(ITL961, $12.99)
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Love and War in the Apennines
• Eric Newby
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Newby's flight from the Germans in occupied Italy during World War II. The author had lived in Italy through childhood during the interwar period, and since has made his home there.
(ITL171, $14.99)
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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, $20.00)
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Mammals of Europe
• Priscilla Barrett
• David W. MacDonald
• FIELD GUIDE
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Published by Princeton, this is a field guide to land and marine mammals throughout Europe, both endemic and introduced. With more than 600 color illustrations of over 200 mammals.
(FG61, $34.95)
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Michelin Green Guide Italy
• Michelin Travel Publications
• GUIDEBOOK
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A survey of the cities, villages and sites of Italy in the classic Michelin style, featuring brief descriptions of all the major attractions and excellent full-color city maps. Organized alphabetically for easy reference.
(ITL279, $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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Milan Map
• Touring Club Italiano
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An excellent map of Milan and surroundings at a scale of 1:15,000 by Touring Club Italiano.
(ITL618, $12.95)
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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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Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
• Umberto Eco
• Geoffrey Brock
• LITERATURE
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(ITL717, $15.00)
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Northern Italy Map
• Touring Club Italiano
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A road map of Northern Italy at a scale of 1:400,000.
(ITL38, $12.95)
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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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On The Road with Francis of Assisi
• Linda Bird Francke
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Assisi wandered for 20 years, affording Newsweek editor Francke and her patient husband plenty to see and do in the piazzas, sanctuaries and chapels of Assisi, Siena, Bologna, Venice, Gubbio, Rome and other choice spots.
(ITL647, $15.95)
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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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The Oxford Illustrated History of Italy
• George Holmes
• HISTORY
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This generously illustrated volume tackles the full sweep of Italian history.
(ITL306, $31.95)
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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy, A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style
• Michael Baxandall
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A short guide to looking at Renaissance art with color illustrations throughout. First published in 1972, it's an influential overview of not only how to look at art -- but how the original 15th-century audience may have seen the paintings of the period.
(ITL236, $19.95)
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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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Portofino, A Novel
• Frank Schaeffer
• LITERATURE
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Set in the 1960s, this coming-of-age tale follows a young boy's encounters with the sights and people of the seaside town of Portofino, while he avoids his missionary parents' constant bickering and their attempts to convert the locals.
(ITL164, $15.00)
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The Prince
• Niccolo Machiavelli
• George Bull
• Anthony Grafton
• LITERATURE
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The classic.
(ITL235, $7.00)
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Red Guide Italia, Hotels and Restaurants
• Michelin Travel Publications
• GUIDEBOOK
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The venerable Michelin Red Guide to dining and lodging in Italy, revised annually.
(ITL275, $26.00)
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Renaissance Philosophy of Man, Petrarca, Valla, Ficino, Pico, Pomponazzi, Vives
• Ernst Cassirer
• Paul Oskar Kristeller
• John H. Randall
• HISTORY
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(ITL237, $20.00)
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Rick Steves' Italian Phrase Book & Dictionary
• Rick Steves
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A compact phrase book for travelers, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary; also includes Steves' insight into how to break the ice and make friends around the world.
(ITL424, $7.95)
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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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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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Time Out Milan, The Lakes And Lombardy
• Sylvia Tombesi-Walton
• GUIDEBOOK
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An up-to-date guide on what to do and where to go by the people who publish Time Out Magazine.
(ITL669, $19.95)
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Travelers' Tales Italy
• Ann Calcagno
• Jan Morris
• ANTHOLOGY
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A collection of 48 stories on traveling in Italy and Italian life, featuring the writing of Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Frances Mayes, Jonathan Keates, Stanley Crouch and others.
(ITL182, $18.95)
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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 Traveller's History of Italy
• Valerio Lintner
• HISTORY
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A brief history of Italy through the 1990s -- wide-ranging, accessible and necessarily condensed. With a useful chronology and historical gazetteer, this book marches confidently through the centuries.
(ITL86, $14.95)
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Unspeakable Women, Selected Short Stories Written by Italian Women During Facism
• Robin Pickering-Iazzi
• LITERATURE
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A selection of short stories by 10 women writing in Italy in the 1920s and 1930s.
(ITL312, $14.95)
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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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Wallpaper City Guide Milan
• Wallpaper Magazine
• GUIDEBOOK
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A stylish, thin (it fits in your back pocket) city guide compiled by the design magazine Wallpaper's local reporters. Well-organized, with chapter tabs, many photographs and of-the-moment recommendations.
(ITL753, $8.95)
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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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Worldly Goods, A New History of the Renaissance
• Lisa Jardine
• HISTORY
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A history of the influence of commerce on the Renaissance.
(ITL173, $19.95)
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