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Biba's Italy
• Biba Caggiano
FOOD •
2006 •
HARD COVER
• 320 PAGES
Caggiano focuses on regional, seasonal food in this omnibus cookbook (featuring 100 recipes), menu planner and travel guide to Rome, Florence, Bologna, Milan and Venice. Nicely produced, this handsome sepia-toned book includes recommended restaurants, cafes and markets in each city.
(ITL777, $29.95) |
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Footprint Italia, Naples & Amalfi Coast
• Nick Bruno
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 352 PAGES
This detailed, comprehensive guide in the Footprint series covers Naples and the Amalfi coast, including the Phlegrean Fields, Pompeii, Herculaneum & Vesuvius, the Sorretine Peninsula & Amalfi coast, Capri, Ischia, and Procida. With practical information of accommodations, food, events and sights. Perfect for the independent traveler.
(ITA74, $19.99) |
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Frommer's Amalfi Coast with Naples, Capri & Pompeii
• Bruce Murphy
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 344 PAGES
A comprehensive, practical guide to the region with excellent recommendations for hotels, restaurants and excursions. With two-color maps throughout.
(ITA81, $19.99) |
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Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum
• Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
1996 •
PAPER
• 264 PAGES
A scholarly history of early Roman society as revealed through the archaeology of the cities of Vesuvius. For serious students only, the book is fascinating for anyone with patience for academic discourse on signs and significance and the structure of space. With eight color plates and 122 black-and-white figures.
(ITL567, $35.00) |
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Italian Journey, 1786-1788
• Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• W.H. Auden
• Elizabeth Meyer
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1992 •
PAPER
• 498 PAGES
The journals and letters from Goethe's 'grand tour' of southern Italy as a 37-year-old. There's some serious intellectual sledding here, but in addition to his musing on philosophy and art, Gooethe includes some wonderful writing on the Italian landscape. And it's all made easier by a lovely translation by W.H. Auden and Elizabeth Meyer.
(ITL144, $18.00) |
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The Italians
• Luigi Barzini
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1996 •
PAPER
• 352 PAGES
The definitive portrait of the Italian people, noteworthy for its insight, grace and wit. It's a classic, scholarly essay on the Italian character, still worthwhile though first published in 1964. Much historical information is included. Highly recommended.
(ITL05, $16.00) |
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Italy in Mind
• 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. Each piece (they tend to run about 5-7 pages) is introduced thoroughly with a description of its historical, geographical, or literary context. Great reading.
(ITL39, $17.95) |
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Italy, A Short History
• Harry Hearder
HISTORY •
2001 •
PAPER
• 294 PAGES
Elegantly written, generous and enormously informative, this compact book takes in the fell sweep of Italian history from the Roman Republic up to the present, including the Renaissance and World War II. It has a welcome focus on the essential unity of Italian civilizations, as well as maps and a chronology. This revised second edition of the late Harry Hearder's classic book includes a new chapter by Jonathan Morris on recent history.
(ITL56, $29.00) |
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Italy, Monuments Past and Present
• R.A. Staccioli
ARCHAEOLOGY •
2003 •
FLEXI-BOUND
• 78 PAGES
Part of the popular Past and Presents series, this informative volume shows Italy's most important monuments as they look today and, via overlaid illustrations, as they were once upon a time. The book surveys the history and archeological highlights of Rome, Sicily and Pompeii.
(ITL455, $25.00) |
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