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About Face

About Face


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

This delicious 18th installment in Donna Leon's entertaining series finds urbane Commissario Brunetti on the trail of ... garbage! Leon lightens the plot (corruption, murder, toxic waste and trucking, etc) with leisurely meals, family encounters and the pleasures of daily life in Venice. The title refers to a subplot about a great beauty ruined by an unfortunate facelift. (ITA54, $14.00)

Acqua Alta

Acqua Alta


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 416 PAGES

Number five in the series, this is another in Donna Leon's satisfying, wonderfully erudite Guido Brunetti mysteries. In this installment, a body is discovered in the home of diva Flavia Petrelli. (ITL559, $14.00)

Al Dente, The Adventures of a Gastronome in Italy

Al Dente, The Adventures of a Gastronome in Italy


by William Black

  • FOOD
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 368 PAGES

William Black tosses a few receipts into this mix of travel, gastronomy and family history. (ITL548, $13.95)

Architecture in Italy 1500-1600

Architecture in Italy 1500-1600


by Wolfgang Lotz | Deborah Howard

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 205 PAGES

A classic, comprehensive introduction to Italian architecture of the 16th century. (ITL247, $40.00)

The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance

The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance


by Peter Murray

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

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)

Art in Renaissance Italy


by Gary M. Radke | John T. Paoletti

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2001
  • HARD COVER
  • 512 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

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)

Art of the Byzantine Era

Art of the Byzantine Era


by David Talbot Rice

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 1985
  • PAPER
  • 286 PAGES

Wide-ranging and literate, this thoroughly illustrated introduction to Byzantine art is an indispensable classic. (TKY22, $21.95)

The Art of the Renaissance

The Art of the Renaissance


by Peter Murray

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 1992
  • PAPER
  • 286 PAGES

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)

art/shop/eat Venice

art/shop/eat Venice


by Paul Blanchard

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 207 PAGES

Blue Guide's compact, illustrated guidebook with excellent local maps. The book includes not-to-be-missed sites and attractions by neighborhood. The perfect addendum to the Blue Guide Venice (ITL457). (ITL765, $13.95)

The Birth of Venus, A Novel

The Birth of Venus, A Novel


by Sarah Dunant

  • LITERATURE
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 397 PAGES

A rich novel of art, passion and patronage, memorably set in late 15th-century Florence and prominently featuring the famously pious reformer Savonarola. (ITL532, $15.00)

Blood from a Stone

Blood from a Stone


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

In this, the 14th installment in Donna Leon's wonderfully satisfying Guido Brunetti mysteries, a Senegalese peddler is shot down in a public square (on a cold Venetian night...). (ITL615, $14.00)

Blue Guide Literary Companion to Venice

Blue Guide Literary Companion to Venice


by Blue Guides

  • LITERATURE
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 250 PAGES

Taking in travelogues, poetry, drama, literature and letters, this wide-ranging anthology includes contributions by Lord Byron, Casanova, Dickens, Goethe, Henry James, Thomas Mann, and Mark Twain. (ITA78, $14.95)

Blue Guide Northern Italy, from the Alps to the Adriatic

Blue Guide Northern Italy, from the Alps to the Adriatic


by Paul Blanchard

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 735 PAGES

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)

Brunetti's Cookbook

Brunetti's Cookbook


by Tatjana Hauptmann | Donna Leon | Roberta Pianaro

  • FOOD
  • 2010
  • HARD COVER
  • 288 PAGES

Donna Leon and her good friend Roberta Pianaro ate their way through the 90 recipes in this savory companion to Leon's splendid Commissario Guido Brunetti novel. With excerpts from the novels and original essays on food and life in Venice by Donna Leon. (ITA133, $24.95)

Brunetti's Venice, Walks with the City's Best-Loved Detective

Brunetti's Venice, Walks with the City's Best-Loved Detective


by Toni Sepeda | Donna Leon

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 293 PAGES

Who better to be your guide? Taking the form of 12 terrifically informative walking tours (which work equally as well as for mystery fans and actual visitors to Venice), Toni Sepeda's clever guide includes excellent local maps -- and acompanying text by none other than Brunetti. Sepeda quotes extensivelty from the mysteries, making this as much a literay as walking guide. (ITA52, $16.95)

Casa Rossa

Casa Rossa


by Francesca Marciano

  • LITERATURE
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 340 PAGES

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)

Charming Small Hotel Guides, Venice


by Fiona Duncan | Leonie Glass

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

A full page with a color photograph is dedicated to each entry in this guide focused on hotels with 20 bedrooms or less. (ITL772, $15.95)

The City of Falling Angels

The City of Falling Angels


by John Berendt

  • HISTORY
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 414 PAGES

Berendt's masterful mix of damp aspirations, intrigue and eccentric personalities conveys a certain essence of what it's like to live in modern Venice. (ITL644, $16.00)

City Secrets Florence, Venice

City Secrets Florence, Venice


by Robert Kahn

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • HARD COVER
  • 150 PAGES

Painters, writers, historians and others contributed to this idiosyncratic guide to under-appreciated treasures of both Florence and Venice. Featuring 200 short recommendations. (ITL277, $14.95)

Companion Guide Venice


by Hugh Honour

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 386 PAGES

A literate and opinionated guide to the art and architecture of Venice. (ITL21, $34.95)

Death and Judgment

Death and Judgment


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

In the fourth installment in the enormously satisfying Guido Brunetti series, the Commissario investigates suspicious happenings in Santa Lucia, Venice and the Dolomites. (ITL745, $14.00)

Death in a Strange Country

Death in a Strange Country


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 400 PAGES

This, the second Brunetti mystery, opens with a body of an American soldier in a Venetian Canal. (ITL556, $14.00)

Doctored Evidence

Doctored Evidence


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES

Another in Donna Leon's satisfying, wonderfully erudite Guido Brunetti mysteries set in Venice. In this installment, a miserly, unpleasant woman is found murdered and all eyes, at least until our hero arrives, point to her Romanian housekeeper. (ITL613, $14.00)

Drawing Conclusions

Drawing Conclusions


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2011
  • HARD COVER
  • 260 PAGES

Commissario di Polizia of the city of Venice, Guido Brunetti has lost none of his wry humor, love of food and family or impatience with police headquarters in this 20th novel in the series, in which he, the ever-resourceful Signorina Elttra and Inspector Vianello probe into what appears to be a simple case of an old woman who died quietly at home. (ITA241, $24.00)

Dressed for Death

Dressed for Death


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

Book number three Donna Leon's satisfying, wonderfully erudite Guido Brunetti mysteries set in Venice. (ITL614, $14.00)

Eyewitness Guide Umbria

Eyewitness Guide Umbria


by Eyewitness Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • FLEXI-BOUND
  • 192 PAGES

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)

Eyewitness Top Ten Venice

Eyewitness Top Ten Venice


by Gillian Price

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • FLEXI-BOUND
  • 160 PAGES

A compact, illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring favorite attractions in Venice. (ITA18, $14.00)

Fatal Remedies

Fatal Remedies


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 336 PAGES

Commissario Brunetti returns in the latest installment of Leon's popular mystery series. (ITL856, $14.00)

Fellowship of Fear

Fellowship of Fear


by Aaron J. Elkins

  • MYSTERY
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

In the very first Gideon Oliver novel by Edgar-winner Aaron Elkins, Oliver agrees to teach at European military bases, only to encounter NATO and the KGB, while defending himself from physical attacks. (EUR233, $7.99)

Fodor's See It Italy

Fodor's See It Italy


by Fodor's

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 496 PAGES

Fodor's informative guide to touring Italy, notable for its especially vibrant presentation of the country. (ITL550, $24.99)

Fodor's Venice & the Venetian Arc


by

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 368 PAGES

A frequently revised, practical guide in the popular series. (ITL895, $18.95)

The Food of Italy

The Food of Italy


by Waverly Root

  • FOOD
  • 1992
  • PAPER
  • 750 PAGES

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, $22.00)

Footprint Italia Venice & Veneto

Footprint Italia Venice & Veneto


by Shona Main

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

Featuring hundred of color photographs and maps, this informative guide balances an overview of nature, history and culture with practical travel information. (ITA90, $21.95)

For the Beauty of the Earth: Birding, Opera, and Other Journeys

For the Beauty of the Earth: Birding, Opera, and Other Journeys


by Thomas Urquhart

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

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)

Friends in High Places

Friends in High Places


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 255 PAGES

The tenth in the excellent Comissario Brunetti series, this mystery follows the investigation of a bureaucrat's dubious fall from a scaffold. (ITL968, $14.00)

Frommer's Venice Day by Day

Frommer's Venice Day by Day


by Frommer's

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 180 PAGES

This shirt pocket guide offers remarkably good suggestions for everything from food and hotels to favorite plazas and shopping. (ITL353, $12.99)

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis


by Giorgio Bassini | William Weaver

  • LITERATURE
  • 1996
  • PAPER
  • 197 PAGES

This powerful book, set in Ferrara, deals with unrequited love and classist society in the time of Mussolini. (ITL205, $13.95)

The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral

The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral


by Robert A. Scott

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 294 PAGES

An enthusiast, Scott presents history, design, architecture and wonder of the medieval cathedral and the great Abbey churches. (EUR190, $21.95)

Heavenly Supper, The Story of Maria Janis


by Fulvio Tomizza

  • LITERATURE
  • 1991
  • HARD COVER
  • 196 PAGES

A well-researched, fictionalized account of 17th-century Venetian peasant Maria Janis, who was reputed to have eaten nothing but consecrated communion wafers and communion wine for five years. (ITL817, $40.00)

Here Is Where We Meet

Here Is Where We Meet


by John Berger

  • LITERATURE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

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, $15.00)

History of My Life (Vols. III & IV)


by Giacomo Casanova | Willard R. Trask

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 704 PAGES

An account of derring-do in 18th-century Venice by Casanova, including a memorable description of imprisonment in the Doge's Palace. (ITL381, $40.00)

The Horses of St. Marks, A Story of Triumph in Byzantium, Paris, and Venice

The Horses of St. Marks, A Story of Triumph in Byzantium, Paris, and Venice


by Charles Freeman

  • HISTORY
  • 2010
  • HARD COVER
  • 304 PAGES

Freeman (Sites of Antiquity) traces the peripatetic history of the horse statues in St. Mark's Square from Constantinople at its founding to Venice at the height of its greatness, to the Paris of Napoleon and back to Venice. (ITA182, $27.95)

Il Postino


by Michael Radford

  • 1995
  • DVD

A shy Italian postman who learns the ways of poetry and romance while delivering mail to the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. (ITL541, $19.99)

Insight City Guide Venice


by Insight Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 313 PAGES

An illustrated overview of Venice with essays on its history, art and architecture. (ITL23, $16.95)

Italian English Bilingual Visual Dictionary


by DK Publishing

  • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 360 PAGES

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, $14.95)

The Italian Renaissance

The Italian Renaissance


by J. H. Plumb

  • HISTORY
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

A well-written history of the Renaissance, its artists and thinkers, with chapters on Florence, Milan, Rome and Venice, Michelangelo, Da Vinci and Women of the Renaissance. (ITL562, $16.00)

Italian, A Language Map

Italian, A Language Map


by Kristine K. Kershul

  • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
  • 1999
  • PLASTIC CARD

This durable, foldout card, featuring 1,000 words and phrases, works as a quick reference for travelers. (ITL645, $7.95)

Italy and Its Invaders

Italy and Its Invaders


by Girolamo Arnaldi

  • HISTORY
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 240 PAGES

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)

Italy in Mind

Italy in Mind


by Alice Powers

  • LITERATURE
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 349 PAGES

A terrific collection of some of the best literary writing on Italy, including pieces by Melville, Lawrence, Henry James, Mary McCarthy and many others. (ITL39, $17.95)

Italy, A Traveler's Literary Companion

Italy, A Traveler's Literary Companion


by Lawrence Venuti

  • ANTHOLOGY
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

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)

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi


by Geoff Dyer

  • LITERATURE
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

In Venice, the jaded, bellini-swigging journalist Jeff begins a passionate affair with the beautiful Laura. In Varanasi, the holiest Hindu city in India, a journalist who may or may not be Jeff joins thousands of pilgrims at the Ganges. As Dyer weaves these two narratives, they become intertwined to create an inventive and humorous story of longing, lust and enlightenment. (IDA592, $15.00)

Knopf Mapguide Venice

Knopf Mapguide Venice


by Knopf Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 48 PAGES

Full-color foldout maps make this guidebook a handy and practical way to find information on where to go and what to do in the city. (ITL667, $10.95)

The Lives of the Artists, Vol 1

The Lives of the Artists, Vol 1


by Giorgio Vasari | Julia Conway and Peter Bondanella

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1987
  • PAPER
  • 477 PAGES

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)

Lonely Planet Venice Encounter

Lonely Planet Venice Encounter


by Alison Bing

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES

This lively shirt pocket guide to the city, jammed with personal recommendations and photographs, also includes a pull-out map. (ITL958, $12.99)

Lucrezia Borgia, Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy


by Sarah Bradford

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 421 PAGES

The celebrated biographer gives us a new portrait of one of the most scandalous and powerful women of the Italian Renaissance. (ITL916, $16.00)

M, The Man Who Became Caravaggio


by Peter Robb

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 592 PAGES

A masterful biography of the Renaissance painter by the author of "Midnight in Sicily." (ART47, $24.00)

Mammals of Europe

Mammals of Europe


by Priscilla Barrett | David W. MacDonald

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

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, $38.50)

Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World

Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World


by John Larner

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

A scholarly, insightful study of the impact of the venetian merchant-explorer's impact on European ideas and knowledge of the world. (EXP22, $21.00)

The Master


by Colm Toibin

  • LITERATURE
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 338 PAGES

A prize-winning novel whose protagonist, based on Henry James, seeks inspiration in the city of Venice. (ITL919, $15.00)

Michelin Green Guide Venice

Michelin Green Guide Venice


by Michelin Travel Publications

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

With suggested tours, site plans of major attractions and excellent neighborhood maps. (ITL818, $19.99)

The Middle Sea

The Middle Sea


by John Julius Norwich

  • HISTORY
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 720 PAGES

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, $21.00)

No Vulgar Hotel, The Desire and Pursuit of Venice

No Vulgar Hotel, The Desire and Pursuit of Venice


by Eric Denker | Judith Martin

  • HISTORY
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 330 PAGES

Martin (AKA Miss Manners) and Denker offer a splendid social history of Venice, with a focus on its many famous personages. (ITA13, $15.95)

A Noble Radiance

A Noble Radiance


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 277 PAGES

Number seven in the Guido Brunetti mysteries, all memorably set in contemporary Venice. For some readers, this installment is the best yet. A body is found on the estate of a local landowner at the foot of the Dolomites. (ITL557, $14.00)

Northern Italy Map

Northern Italy Map


by Touring Club Italiano

  • MAP

This beautifully shaded road map of Northern Italy (1:400,000) shows the region including Trieste, Venice, Bologna Milan and Turin. (ITL38, $14.95)

On The Road with Francis of Assisi

On The Road with Francis of Assisi


by Linda Bird Francke

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

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)

One-Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Italy

One-Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Italy


by Paolo Lazzarin

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2004
  • HARD COVER
  • 276 PAGES

Each charming town gets an appreciative essay and evocative color photographs in this handsome tribute and excellent guide. (ITL546, $45.00)

Othello


by William Shakespeare | Roma Gill

  • LITERATURE
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 176 PAGES

An Oxford School Shakespeare edition. (ITL527, $7.95)

The Ottoman Centuries

The Ottoman Centuries


by Lord Kinross

  • HISTORY
  • 1988
  • PAPER
  • 638 PAGES

A richly detailed, engrossing history of the Ottoman Empire from its dawn in 1300 up to the foundation of the modern republic in 1923, enhanced by maps and photos. (ITL54, $18.99)

Painting in Renaissance Venice


by Peter Humfrey

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

A compact, well illustrated introduction to Bellini, Titian, Tinteretto and other Venetian masters. With 80 fine color plates. Humfrey balances the works themselves and individual painters with information on the social and political background of the period. (ITL492, $28.00)

Palladian Days

Palladian Days


by Sally and Carl Gable

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 266 PAGES

Owners since 1989 of Villa Cornaro, a stunning Palladio villa outside Venice, the Gables write with humor and warmth of the architecture, history, lives of its former inhabitants and charms of the village surrounding the estate. (ITA165, $17.00)

Palladio

Palladio


by James Ackerman

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1974
  • PAPER
  • 170 PAGES

James Ackerman's seminal biography of Venetian architect Andrea Palladio. (ITL234, $15.00)

Paradise of Cities, Venice in the 19th Century

Paradise of Cities, Venice in the 19th Century


by John Julius Norwich

  • HISTORY
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 336 PAGES

A portrait of Venice as seen by the 19th-century literati, mostly British. (ITL483, $16.00)

The Perfect House, A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrew Palladio


by Witold Rybczynski

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

A professor of urban studies and popular author, Rybczynski is an enlightening guide to Palladio and his influence in Italy and abroad. (ITL590, $19.99)

Pimsleur Quick & Simple Italian


by Pimsleur Language Method

  • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
  • 2005
  • AUDIO CD

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)

Pocket Rough Guide Venice

Pocket Rough Guide Venice


by Jonathan Buckley

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 176 PAGES

By the savvy editors at Rough Guide, these just-right guides are bundled with a pullout map. (ITA255, $12.99)

The Pope, His Banker, and Venice


by Felix Gilbert

  • HISTORY
  • 1991
  • PAPER
  • 176 PAGES

An engrossing story of Renaissance diplomacy, war, business, and politics. (ITA47, $21.00)

Private Lives In Renaissance Venice, Art, Architecture, and the Family


by Patricia Fortini Brown

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2004
  • HARD COVER
  • 312 PAGES

An engaging and original perspective on the private lives and material culture of patrician families in sixteenth-century Venice. (ITL917, $60.00)

A Question of Belief

A Question of Belief


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

Brunetti grapples with corruption, the usual bureaucratic intransigence -- and the sweltering Venetian summer -- in this 19th book. (ITA134, $15.00)

Quietly in Their Sleep

Quietly in Their Sleep


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

The sixth book in Leon's satisfying series, originally published as Death of Faith in 1997. (ITL833, $14.00)

Rick Steves' Italian Phrase Book & Dictionary

Rick Steves' Italian Phrase Book & Dictionary


by Rick Steves

  • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 281 PAGES

This compact phrase book, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary, also includes Steves' insight into how to break the ice and make friends around the world. (ITL424, $8.95)

Rilke's Venice, A Travel Companion


by Rainer Maria Rilke | Birgit Haustedt | Stephen W. Brown

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2010
  • HARD COVER
  • 124 PAGES

Rilke's reflections on a favorite city. (ITA135, $19.95)

Romeo and Juliet


by William Shakespeare

  • LITERATURE
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

This edition of the Bard's tragedy is heavily footnoted, providing lots of textual commentary. (ITL322, $10.95)

Rough Guide Venice & the Veneto

Rough Guide Venice & the Veneto


by Jonathan Buckley

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 440 PAGES

This intelligent, comprehensive guide includes helpful travel details along with a good overview of history, culture and art. (ITL554, $19.99)

The Science of Saving Venice


by Caroline Fletcher

  • SCIENCE
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 91 PAGES

Produced by the Venice in Peril Fund, this book provides a sensible and illuminating introduction to the problems of Venice's flooding, sinking and pollution. With striking photographs in color and black-and-white. (ITA27, $15.00)

A Sea of Troubles

A Sea of Troubles


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

This tenth mystery in the entertaining series follows the tribulations of Signorina Elettra, the urbane Brunetti's secretary, who falls in love with a young(er) man on a visit to Pellestrina, one of the long islands that shelters the Venetian lagoon from the Adriatic. (ITA55, $14.00)

Short Stories in Italian, Racconti in Italiano


by Nick Roberts

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 174 PAGES

These modern tales in the bilingual series of Penguin Parallel Texts make for good reading in any language. (ITL730, $14.00)

A Stopover in Venice, A Novel

A Stopover in Venice, A Novel


by Kathryn Walker

  • LITERATURE
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

Mixing art, romance and mystery, this charming debut novel follows the fate of a young American woman, bored in her marriage to a famous muscian, who abruptly sets off to explore Venice on her own. (ITL988, $15.00)

Strolling Through Venice, The Definitive Walking Guidebook to La Serenissima

Strolling Through Venice, The Definitive Walking Guidebook to La Serenissima


by John Freely

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 496 PAGES

Freely's leisurely, discursive classic guide to exploring the streets and squares, along the canals, into the churches, galleries, museums, palaces and neighborhoods of Venice. (ITL890, $16.95)

Suffer the Little Children

Suffer the Little Children


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

Leon's 16th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery delves into the world of doctors and medicine in a wonderfully realized contemporary Venice. (ITL834, $14.00)

The Talented Mr. Ripley


by Anthony Minghella

  • 1999
  • DVD

A suspenseful thriller of obsession and jealousy starring Matt Damon and Jude Law, based on the popular mystery by Patricia Highsmith. (ITL542, $14.99)

The Taste of Conquest, The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice

The Taste of Conquest, The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice


by Michael Krondl

  • HISTORY
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

Weaving travel and history, Michael Krondl a world where pepper, cinnamon and cloves were as valuable as gold -- and Venice, Lison and Amsterdam jockeyed for global control. (EUR279, $16.00)

That Fine Italian Hand


by Paul Hoffman

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1991
  • PAPER
  • 246 PAGES

An affectionate -- and insightful -- portrait of a people. (ITL346, $17.99)

Through a Glass, Darkly

Through a Glass, Darkly


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES

Number 15 in the enormously satisfying, wonderfully erudite series memorably set in the author's beloved Venice and starring police commissioner Guido Brunetti. (ITL714, $14.00)

Time Out Venice: Verona, Treviso, And The Veneto

Time Out Venice: Verona, Treviso, And The Veneto


by Time Out

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 335 PAGES

An up-to-date guide on what to do and where to go by the people who publish Time Out Magazine. (ITL672, $19.95)

Timeless Cities, An Architect's Reflections on Renaissance Italy

Timeless Cities, An Architect's Reflections on Renaissance Italy


by David Mayernik

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 274 PAGES

In this thoughtful book, Mayernik shows the philosophical and religious meaning behind the planning and architecture of Rome, Florence, Venice, Siena and Pienza. (ITL589, $18.95)

The Titian Committee

The Titian Committee


by Iain Pears

  • MYSTERY
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 230 PAGES

In this second Jonathan Argyll book, the amiable and incompetent professor Jonathan Argyll and the vivacious Flavia di Stefano of the Italian Art Theft Squad investigate the murder of a prestigious member of the scholarly Titian Committee. (ITL741, $6.99)

A Traveller in Italy

A Traveller in Italy


by H.V. Morton | Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 640 PAGES

The much-beloved, enduring account of Morton's ramblings in the temples, tombs and villas of Tuscany, Lombardy, Emilia and the Veneto. (ITL417, $25.00)

A Traveller's History of Italy

A Traveller's History of Italy


by Valerio Lintner

  • HISTORY
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 287 PAGES

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)

Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere

Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere


by Jan Morris

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 208 PAGES

A loving celebration of the city and its faded glory. Morris, who first visited the city as a soldier during WWII, is especially good at evoking the varied history and fortunes of Trieste. (ITL347, $15.00)

Tropic of Venice

Tropic of Venice


by Margaret Doody

  • HISTORY
  • 2007
  • HARD COVER
  • 374 PAGES

Novelist, critic and traveler, Doody weaves her own tales with that of travelers and artists in this richly informative portrait of La Serenissima. (ITA12, $45.00)

Twelfth Night


by Paul Edmondson

  • LITERATURE
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES

Edmondson provides key historical context for the play, considering its critical and theatrical reception since Shakespeare's time. (GBR758, $19.95)

Uniform Justice

Uniform Justice


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 258 PAGES

Another satisfying entry in the Guido Brunetti series of Venetian mysteries. (ITL558, $14.00)

Venetian Colour, Marble, Mosaic, Painting and Glass 1250-1550


by Paul Hills

  • HISTORY
  • 1999
  • HARD COVER
  • 260 PAGES

An illustrated exploration of color's role in Venetian Renaissance painting. (ITL918, $65.00)

Venetian Life

Venetian Life


by William Dean Howells

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 336 PAGES

A leisurely account of housekeeping, touring and socializing in 19th-century Venice by the American consul, first published in 1866. (ITL327, $16.95)

Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture 1100-1500


by Deborah Howard

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2000
  • HARD COVER
  • 300 PAGES

A magnificently illustrated, illuminating survey of the Islamic roots of Venetian architecture. (ITL796, $70.00)

Venice and the Slavs, The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment

Venice and the Slavs, The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment


by Larry Wolff

  • HISTORY
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 404 PAGES

Wolf focuses on the circa-1700s Venetian Empire in the Balkans as a way to explore relations between eastern and western Europe in this fascinating, scholarly study of the region. (BLK35, $29.95)

Venice for Lovers

Venice for Lovers


by Anka Muhlstein | Louis Begley

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

The accomplished literary couple shares their love for Venice in this two-part book, featuring a novella about heartbreak and a personal travelogue, both set in the City of Water. (ITL976, $14.00)

Venice Revealed, An Intimate Portrait


by Paolo Barbero

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2001
  • HARD COVER
  • 233 PAGES

An appreciation and rediscovery of Venice, its mysteries and pleasures by a native son. (ITL678, $27.00)

Venice Triumphant, The Horizons of a Myth


by Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan | Lydia Cochrane

  • HISTORY
  • 2002
  • HARD COVER
  • 432 PAGES

A well-received scholarly history of Venice, organized thematically. (ITL504, $56.00)

Venice, a Maritime Republic

Venice, a Maritime Republic


by Frederic C. Lane

  • HISTORY
  • 1973
  • PAPER
  • 505 PAGES

Lane focuses on the history of trade, taking in not just on La Serenissima but also Dubrovink and the other cities of its once far-flung domain. (ITL24, $32.00)

Venice, City of Art

Venice, City of Art


by Matteo Varia | Livio Bourbon | Richard Pierce

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2006
  • HARD COVER
  • 128 PAGES

A lively photographic celebration of the architecture, art and life of Venice with extended captions and accompanying essays. (ITL721, $27.95)

Venice, The Anthology Guide


by Milton Grundy

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 248 PAGES

Famous writers, from Ruskin and Dickens to Michael Levey and James Morris, guide you through the city in this collection of 11 walking tours and excursions, complemented by eight maps and some archival illustrations. (ITL871, $35.00)

Venice, The Ruyi


by Alberto Toso Fei

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 124 PAGES

The unusual WhaiWhai guidebook series takes readers on a historical treasure hunt through the city discovering monuments and hidden corners through fictional scenerios. To play, you need to have a cell phone on hand to receive clues. (ITA236, $21.95)

Venice, the Tourist Maze

Venice, the Tourist Maze


by Robert C. Davis | Garry R. Marvin

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 368 PAGES

A history of the impact and importance of tourism in Venice, a city that both thrives on and suffers from the millions of people who visit it every year. The authors paint a sobering picture of the state of the city today and the prospects for its future. (ITL648, $26.95)

Where Venice Cityguide


by Where Magazine

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2008
  • HARD COVER
  • 64 PAGES

A sturdy pocket guide to top city sights, helpfully keyed to overview maps and featuring a detailed downtown PopOut map. (ITL876, $9.95)

Willful Behavior

Willful Behavior


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

Commissario Brunetti dredges up dark secrets from Italy's anti-Semitic past in his captivating 11th case. (ITA167, $14.00)

Wine Country Europe, Touring, Tasting, And Buying At European Regional Wineries

Wine Country Europe, Touring, Tasting, And Buying At European Regional Wineries


by Ornella D'Alessio | Marco Santini

  • FOOD
  • 2005
  • HARD COVER
  • 324 PAGES

Part how-to, part guidebook, part picture book, this charming coffee table treat covers sprawling French vineyards as well as lesser-known hidden treasures in Austria and Hungary. (EUR191, $35.00)

 

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