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Acqua Alta
• Donna Leon
• MYSTERY
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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)
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After Hannibal
• Barry Unsworth
• LITERATURE
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Unsworth's vivid novel takes in the history, landscape, pleasures and the other Americans and Europeans, like himself, who live in Umbria.
(ITL100, $17.95)
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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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Almost Blue
• Carlo Lucarelli
• MYSTERY
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A mystery noir set on the streets of Bologna, in which rookie cop Grazia Negro tracks a serial killer.
(ITL673, $12.95)
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The Architectural History of Venice
• Deborah Howard
• GUIDEBOOK
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This revised edition of Howard's concise, fact-filled guide to Venetian churches, palaces and guildhalls from the Byzantine era to the present includes 70 black-and-white and 100 color illustrations.
(ITL797, $26.00)
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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, $40.00)
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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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Art and Authority in Renaissance Milan
• Evelyn S. Welch
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A scholarly study of art, architecture and patronage in Renaissance Milan.
(ITL405, $75.00)
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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 of the Byzantine Era
• David Talbot Rice
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An indispensable classic and a thoroughly illustrated introduction to Byzantine art, wide-ranging and literate. Though it focuses on early Christian Constantinople, the book also includes chapters on Sicily, Venice and the Slavonic art of the Balkans.
(TKY22, $16.95)
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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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art/shop/eat Venice
• Paul Blanchard
• GUIDEBOOK
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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)
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Authentic Veneto Friuli
• Touring Club Italiano
• GUIDEBOOK
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With a focus on history, architecture and cuisine, this attractive, illustrated driving guide includes 28 full-color regional and local maps.
(ITL778, $20.95)
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Birds of Britain & Europe
• Hermann Heinzel
• Richard Fitter
• John Parslow
• FIELD GUIDE
• OUT OF PRINT
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This masterfully organized Collins Pocket Guide, featuring 3,000 color illustrations covers the birds of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
(EUR49, $27.50)
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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, $15.00)
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Blood from a Stone
• Donna Leon
• MYSTERY
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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)
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Blue Guide Venice
• Alta MacAdam
• GUIDEBOOK
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This comprehensive guide is the best for art, architecture, museums, history and culture.
(ITL457, $29.95)
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By the Grand Canal, A Novel
• William Riviere
• LITERATURE
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A group of friends reunite in Venice in the days after the 1918 armistice in this atmospheric novel. At its center is Hugh Thurne, a British diplomat who tries to escapes the shadows of war among the canals and dilapidated palazzos of the city.
(ITL651, $13.00)
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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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Charming Small Hotel Guides, Venice
• 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.
(ITL772, $15.95)
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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 City of Falling Angels
• John Berendt
• HISTORY
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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, $15.00)
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City Secrets: Florence, Venice, and the Towns of Italy
• Robert Kahn
• GUIDEBOOK
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An inspired collection of favorite places, experiences, excursions and events in Italy; the contributors are often artists, architects or members of the American Academy in Rome.
(ITL277, $19.95)
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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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Companion Guide Venice
• Hugh Honour
• GUIDEBOOK
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A literate and opinionated guide to the art and architecture of Venice.
(ITL21, $34.95)
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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, $28.99)
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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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Death and Judgment
• Donna Leon
• MYSTERY
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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)
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Death in a Strange Country
• Donna Leon
• MYSTERY
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This, the second Brunetti mystery, opens with a body of an American soldier in a Venetian Canal.
(ITL556, $14.00)
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The Devil in the Hills
• Cesare Pavese
• LITERATURE
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This book, the most personal of the many stories, poems and novels of Pavese, follows the summer adventures of three young men in the hills, vineyards and villages of the author's native Piedmont.
(ITL430, $23.95)
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Doctored Evidence
• Donna Leon
• MYSTERY
•
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)
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Dolomites Trekking, Alta Via 1 & Alta Via 2
• Henry Stedman
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide to walks and treks in the Dolomites featuring 51 detailed route maps, village plans and concise information on where to go, and what to see and do.
(ITL253, $22.95)
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Dressed for Death
• Donna Leon
• MYSTERY
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Book number three Donna Leon's satisfying, wonderfully erudite Guido Brunetti mysteries set in Venice.
(ITL614, $14.00)
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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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Encounters With Verdi
• Marcello Conati
• Richard Stokes
• MUSIC
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A collection of first hand accounts of experiences with Verdi.
(MUS06, $24.50)
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Etruscan Art
• Nigel Spivey
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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In this illustrated and wide-ranging introduction, Nigel Spivey brings the Etruscan world to life, illuminating the social, political and cultural context of the art objects and artifacts that remain the singular achievement of the Etruscans.
(ITL68, $18.95)
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Excellent Cadavers, The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic
• Alexander Stille
• HISTORY
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This fast-paced book is a gripping account of corruption in Italy. The author offers an utterly absorbing account of the assassination of two top anti-Mafia prosecutors in 1992.
(ITL58, $16.00)
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Eyewitness Guide Italian Riviera
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
•
A handsome, beautifully illustrated and informative compact guide to Liguria. It covers places, recommended excursions, hotels and attractions from the border with France east to La Spezia.
(ITL566, $20.00)
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Eyewitness Guide Italy
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
• BEST SELLER
•
This superb guide features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions.
(ITL32, $30.00)
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Eyewitness Guide Milan and the Lakes
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This superb guide to Milan and the Italian lakes features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the area's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(ITL165, $25.00)
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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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Eyewitness Venice Pocket Map & Guide
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This superb guide to Venice features color photography, easy-to-use foldout maps and top attractions. Convenient and up-to-date with an unbeatable price, this is the guide to carry.
(ITL786, $6.99)
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A Farewell to Arms
• Ernest Hemingway
• LITERATURE
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Set in snowy Switzerland and the rainy Italian Lake Country during World War I, this semi-autobiographical novel chronicles the romance between a British nurse and an American ambulance driver.
(ITL384, $16.00)
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Fellowship of Fear
• Aaron J. Elkins
• MYSTERY
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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)
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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 Milan's 25 Best
• Fodor's Travel Publications
• GUIDEBOOK
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A handy, shirt-pocket guide to Milan with a map and essential information on its highlights.
(ITL608, $11.99)
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Fodor's See It Florence and Tuscany
• Fodor's
• GUIDEBOOK
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Fodor's vibrant and informative guide to touring Florence and Tuscany.
(ITL553, $24.99)
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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, Region by Region
• Claudia Roden
• FOOD
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The marvelous Claudia Roden, who spent a year visiting cooks throughout Italy, presents 300 easy-to-prepare recipes in the context of Italian history, culture and geography.
(ITL683, $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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Foucault's Pendulum
• Umberto Eco
• William Weaver
• LITERATURE
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A wild, complex conspiracy novel set in Milan. It involves Templars, Rosicrucians, Freemasons, Jesuits, and more. The verbose, scholarly text is a study in how fiction can influence reality, and an excellent choice for readers who feel up to a rewarding challenge.
(ITL649, $15.95)
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Frommer's Venice Day by Day
• Frommer's
• GUIDEBOOK
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This shirt pocket guide offers remarkably good suggestions for everything from food and hotels to favorite plazas and shopping.
(ITL353, $12.99)
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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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Good Blood
• Aaron J. Elkins
• MYSTERY
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In the eleventh Gideon Oliver novel, the anthropologist vacations with his wife at an Italian estate in Lake Maggiore. However, beautiful views and delicious food can't compete with the disappearance of their host's child and the discovery of bones.
(ITL739, $6.99)
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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, $19.95)
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Heavenly Supper, The Story of Maria Janis
• Fulvio Tomizza
• LITERATURE
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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, $38.00)
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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, $15.00)
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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, $125.80)
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History of My Life (Vols. III & IV)
• Giacomo Casanova
• Willard R. Trask
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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An account of derring-do in 18th-century Venice by Casanova, including a memorable description of imprisonment in the Doge's Palace.
(ITL381, $35.00)
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A History of Venice
• John Julius Norwich
• HISTORY
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The great historian Norwich marshals myriad personalities, battles, sieges, and facts into a vivid portrait of the Venetian Republic spanning the 1000 years up to its 1797 defeat at the hands of Napoleon.
(ITL177, $26.00)
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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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Insight City Guide Venice
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
•
An illustrated overview of Venice with essays on its history, art and architecture.
(ITL23, $16.95)
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Insight Compact Guide Italian Riviera
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
•
A compact, illustrated introduction to the Italian Riviera, this guide features 160 photos and maps, and covers all the major attractions. With information on recommended tours, including Old Town and the rock drawings of Liguria.
(ITL198, $8.95)
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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, $23.99)
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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, $24.95)
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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 Bed & Breakfasts
• Touring Club Italiano
• GUIDEBOOK
•
A guide to 1,200 places to stay in Italy, from simple rooms to luxurious suites, the heart of Rome to off-the-beaten track.
(ITL598, $16.95)
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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
•
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)
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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 recipes.
(ITL298, $16.00)
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Italian Indispensables Vocabulary Builder
• Audio-Forum
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
•
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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"Sicily is the key to everything" is only one of Goethe's many astute observations included in this Penguin Classics edition of his journals and letters from his grand tour of southern Italy.
(ITL144, $17.00)
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The Italian Renaissance
• J. H. Plumb
• HISTORY
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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)
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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, $18.00)
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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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The Italians
• Luigi Barzini
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Audio version of the classic essay on the Italian character, first published in 1964.
(ITL33, $69.95)
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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
• BEST SELLER
•
A handy, laminated map for travelers 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, $12.95)
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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
•
A vibrant, colorful guide to Milan -- small enough to fit in your pocket.
(ITL123, $14.95)
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Knopf Mapguide Naples
• Knopf Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
•
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.
(ITL352, $9.95)
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Knopf Mapguide Venice
• Knopf Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
•
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, $9.95)
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Knopf Mapguide, Italian Lakes
• Knopf Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
•
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
•
A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the city, featuring fold-out maps.
(ITL809, $10.95)
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La Dolce Vita
• Federico Fellini
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Fellini's celebrated masterpiece about a Roman tabloid reporter who fully indulges in the decadence of "the sweet life."
(ITL543, $34.98)
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Leonardo da Vinci
• Sherwin B. Nuland
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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In this compact book in the excellent Penguin Lives series, Nuland summarizes the achievements and obsessions of the extraordinary Leonardo da Vinci.
(ITL684, $14.00)
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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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Leonardo da Vinci, The Mind of the Renaissance
• Alessandro Vezzosi
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A pocket-size encyclopedia of knowledge, this colorful book illustrates and documents the life and work of Leonardo, including a long section of excerpts from his writings.
(ITL77, $12.95)
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The Life of Verdi
• John Rosselli
• MUSIC
•
Part biography, part musical history, the life story and major operas of the 19th-century composer.
(ITL447, $34.99)
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Liguria Regional Map
• Touring Club Italiano
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A map of the region, including Cinque Terra, at a scale of 1:200,000.
(ITL118, $12.95)
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A Literary Companion to Venice
• Ian Littlewood
• GUIDEBOOK
•
includes the writings of Byron, Goethe, James, Proust, Lawrence, and Pound.
(ITL633, $14.95)
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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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Lombardia Regional Map
• Touring Club Italiano
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A colorful regional map of Lombardy.
(ITL120, $12.95)
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Lonely Planet Italian Phrasebook
• Lonely Planet
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A handy, palm-size phrasebook for the traveler.
(ITL531, $8.99)
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A Long Finish, An Aurelio Zen Mystery
• Michael Dibdin
• MYSTERY
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Another enjoyable "Aurelio Zen Mystery" from Michael Dibdin, this time private investigator Zen is in Rome and Alba, enjoying wonderful wine and food while uncovering a murderous plot that may jeopardize the Piemontese wine industry.
(ITL193, $13.95)
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Love and War in the Apennines
• Eric Newby
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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This unassuming memoir of remarkable wartime adventures in German-occupied WWII Italy is perhaps Newby's best book. Escaping a POW camp, he takes refuge with Italian families who hide him from advancing German forces. It's here that he meets Wanda, the love of his life. They marry in 1946.
(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, $22.00)
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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, $38.50)
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Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World
• John Larner
• EXPLORATION
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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)
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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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Michelin Green Guide Venice
• Michelin Travel Publications
• GUIDEBOOK
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With suggested tours, site plans of major attractions and excellent neighborhood maps.
(ITL818, $19.99)
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The Middle Sea
• John Julius Norwich
• HISTORY
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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
• Streetwise Maps
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A detailed travel map of Milan.
(ITL65, $8.95)
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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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The Moon and the Bonfires
• Cesare Pavese
• R.W. Flint
• Mark Rudman
• LITERATURE
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Pavese's last novel, published shortly before the writer's suicide in 1950, is his evocation of post-Mussolini Italy. The protagonist, an emigrant, returns to Northern Italy from America in the wake of World War II.
(ITL427, $14.00)
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Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
• Umberto Eco
• Geoffrey Brock
• LITERATURE
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(ITL717, $18.00)
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A Noble Radiance
• Donna Leon
• MYSTERY
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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)
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The Olive, Tree of Civilization
• John Train
• Mark E. Smith
• HISTORY
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This history of the celebrated olive brings to life its glorious past, mythology and global impact.
(NAT72, $25.00)
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On the Making of Gardens
• George Sitwell
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A handsome edition of Sitwell's 1909 meditation on the Renaissance gardens of Tuscany, Rome and the Lake District. It's not a handbook but rather an inspiring analysis of the transformation -- and magic -- of gardens.
(ITL499, $16.95)
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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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Othello, Oxford School Shakespeare
• William Shakespeare
• Roma Gill
• LITERATURE
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An Oxford School Shakespeare edition.
(ITL527, $7.95)
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The Ottoman Centuries
• Lord Kinross
• HISTORY
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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)
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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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Painting in Renaissance Venice
• Peter Humfrey
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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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)
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Palladio
• James Ackerman
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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James Ackerman's seminal biography of Venetian architect Andrea Palladio.
(ITL234, $15.00)
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Paradise of Cities, Venice in the 19th Century
• John Julius Norwich
• HISTORY
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A portrait of Venice as seen by the 19th-century literati, mostly British.
(ITL483, $16.00)
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The Perfect House, A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrew Palladio
• Witold Rybczynski
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A professor of urban studies and popular author, Rybczynski is an enlightening guide to Palladio and his influence in Italy and abroad.
(ITL590, $15.00)
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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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The Prince
• Niccolo Machiavelli
• George Bull
• Anthony Grafton
• LITERATURE
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The classic text of social mobility, written during the peak of the Italian Renaissance.
(ITL235, $7.00)
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Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron
• Edward Trelawney
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The lives and deaths of these two most romantic of Romantic poets are lovingly recounted in this memoir by Edward Trelawny. Trelawny was a fascinating figure in his own right, and his tribute to his two lost friends bears all the marks of his own generous, wild personality.
(ITL336, $13.95)
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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 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, $35.20)
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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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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)
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The Rise of Christianity
• Rodney Stark
• RELIGION
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The subtitle to this book says it all: "How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries."
(MED64, $14.99)
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Riviera di Levante, Golfo Tigullio, Cinque Terre
• Litographia Artistica Cartographica
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A regional map at a scale of 1:140,000.
(ITL779, $12.95)
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Romeo and Juliet
• William Shakespeare
• LITERATURE
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This edition of the Bard's tragedy is heavily footnoted, providing lots of textual commentary.
(ITL322, $10.95)
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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, $24.99)
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Rough Guide Venice & the Veneto
• Jonathan Buckley
• GUIDEBOOK
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This intelligent, comprehensive guide includes helpful travel details along with a good overview of history, culture and art.
(ITL554, $18.99)
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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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Shorter Walks in the Dolomites
• Gillian Price
• GUIDEBOOK
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One of a series of practical guides on walks and treks in the Dolomites by the British publisher.
(ITL725, $19.95)
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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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Songbirds, Truffles and Wolves, An American Naturalist in Italy
• Gary Paul Nabhan
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The author, a poet and naturalist, heads along the Franciscan Way from Florence to Assisi. This most unusual travelogue combines natural history, spirituality and a lively appreciation of local food and food traditions. A print-on-demand paperback.
(ITL99, $16.00)
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Spartacus
• Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick's riveting epic about the leader of a Roman slave revolt, starring no less than Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Tony Curtis and Peter Ustinov.
(ITL544, $49.95)
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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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Taming of the Shrew, The Oxford Shakespeare
• William Shakespeare
• H.J. Oliver
• LITERATURE
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A volume in the Oxford Shakespeare series.
(ITL526, $10.95)
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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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Through a Glass, Darkly: A Commissario Guide Brunetti Mystery
• Donna Leon
• MYSTERY
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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)
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Time Out Milan
• 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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Time Out Venice, Verona, Treviso, And The Veneto
• Time Out
• 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.
(ITL672, $19.95)
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Timeless Cities, An Architect's Reflections on Renaissance Italy
• David Mayernik
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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In this thoughtful book, Mayernik shows the philosophical and religious meaning behind the planning and architecture of Rome, Florence, Venice, Siena and Pienza.
(ITL589, $16.00)
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The Titian Committee
• Iain Pears
• MYSTERY
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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)
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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 Companion to Venice
• John Julius Norwich
• ANTHOLOGY
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An illuminating selection, edited and introduced by the great John Julius Norwich.
(ITL484, $16.95)
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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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Treasury of Byzantine Ornament: 255 Motifs from St. Mark's and Ravenna
• Arne Dehli
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A great reference for anyone with an interest in 6th- and 7th-century Byzantine art and architecture. This guide provides clear line drawings of interior and exterior adornments; thorough and well-illustrated.
(ITL690, $12.95)
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Treks in the Dolomites
• Gillian Price
• Martin Collins
• GUIDEBOOK
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A detailed practical guide to the two best-known long-distance walks through the Dolomites: the Alta Via 1 -- Lago di Braies to Belluno (9-13 days) and Alta Via 2 -- Bressanone to Feltre (10-16 days).
(ITL692, $19.95)
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Trentino Alto-Adige Map
• Touring Club Italiano
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A colorful regional map of the Italian Dolomites at a scale of 1:200,000.
(ITL42, $12.95)
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Trentino Alto-Adige Map
• Touring Club Italiano
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A colorful regional map of the Italian Dolomites at a scale of 1:200,000.
(ITL42, $12.95)
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Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
• Jan Morris
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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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)
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The Tuscan Year, Tuscan Life and Food in an Italian Valley
• Elizabeth Romer
• FOOD
• FAVORITE
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An intimate portrait of life on a Tuscan farm as seen primarily through the robust food and a Longitude favorite. Romer captures the goings-on in the countryside, and especially in the Cerotti kitchen, where traditional Tuscan rural food is prepared with loving care. Every chapter includes concisely described recipes.
(ITL131, $14.00)
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Tuscany in Mind
• Alice Powers
• ANTHOLOGY
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A fine literary anthology covering the region's history, geography, culture and (of course) food, featuring contributions by luminaries including D.H. Lawrence and Robert Browning.
(ITL607, $14.95)
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Under the Tuscan Sun
• Frances Mayes
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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In this best-selling memoir of buying, renovating and living in an abandoned villa in Tuscany, Mayes reveals the sensual pleasures found in rural Italy.
(ITL85, $15.00)
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Uniform Justice
• Donna Leon
• MYSTERY
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Another satisfying entry in the Guido Brunetti series of Venetian mysteries.
(ITL558, $14.00)
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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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A Valley in Italy, The Many Seasons of a Villa in Umbria
• Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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This short memoir chronicles a year in the small Umbrian village of San Orsola--especially the delights and frustrations of renovating a decayed villa. Taking in food, wine, local customs and landscapes, the book is an excellent introduction to the region
(ITL98, $13.00)
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A Venetian Affair, A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century
• Andrea Di Robilant
• HISTORY
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This lively account of an affair between an Anglo-Italian beauty and her aristocratic lover (in which Casanova has a minor role) plays out in the richly evoked milieu of 18th-century Venice, Paris and London.
(ITL604, $15.00)
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Venetian Life
• William Dean Howells
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A leisurely account of housekeeping, touring and socializing in 19th-century Venice by the American consul, first published in 1866.
(ITL327, $16.95)
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Veneto Friuli Venezia Giulia Map
• Touring Club Italiano
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A detailed, shaded relief map of the Veneto at a scale of 1:200,000. Accurate, colorful, and imported from Italy.
(ITL22, $12.95)
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Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture 1100-1500
• Deborah Howard
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A magnificently illustrated, illuminating survey of the Islamic roots of Venetian architecture.
(ITL796, $70.00)
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Venice and the Slavs, The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment
• Larry Wolff
• HISTORY
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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, scholary study of the region.
(BLK35, $29.95)
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Venice for Pleasure
• J.G. Links
• GUIDEBOOK
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The 40th anniversary edition of this favorite walking guide to the history, art and byways of Venice.
(ITL104, $27.95)
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Venice Observed
• Mary McCarthy
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Originally published over 30 years ago, this collection of eight essays is a literate, evocative celebration of the city, its character, and its history.
(ITL27, $13.00)
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Venice Revealed, An Intimate Portrait
• Paolo Barbero
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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An appreciation and rediscovery of Venice, its mysteries and pleasures by a native son.
(ITL678, $27.00)
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Venice Triumphant, The Horizons of a Myth
• Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan
• Lydia Cochrane
• HISTORY
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A well-received scholarly history of Venice, organized thematically.
(ITL504, $55.00)
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Venice, a Maritime Republic
• Frederic C. Lane
• HISTORY
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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, $30.00)
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Venice, City of Art
• Matteo Varia
• Livio Bourbon
• Richard Pierce
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A lively photographic celebration of the architecture, art and life of Venice with extended captions and accompanying essays.
(ITL721, $27.95)
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Venice, Lion City
• Garry Wills
• HISTORY
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A magisterial history of Venice at the height of its power as a maritime republic in the 15th and 16th centuries. Wills shows the power and influence of the city through its magnificent Renaissance art and architecture.
(ITL324, $20.00)
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Venice, The City and Its Architecture
• Richard Goy
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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In this oversize, illustrated book, architect and historian Richard Goy discusses the diverse buildings of Venice, including fisherman's cottages, Christian basilicas, Palladio's masterpieces, and Longhena's Santa Maria de Salute. With 400 photographs, in color and black-and-white.
(ITL251, $39.95)
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Venice, the Tourist Maze
• Robert C. Davis
• Garry R. Marvin
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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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, $22.95)
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Verona Map
• Litographia Artistica Cartographica
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A colorful, folded travel map to Verona, Italy.
(ITL453, $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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Voice of the Violin
• Andrea Camilleri
• Stephen Sartarelli
• MYSTERY
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The fourth installment in the popular Inspector Montalbano series, complete with a quirky cast of Sicilian characters.
(ITL537, $14.00)
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The Walker's Literary Companion
• Robert Gilbert
• Anne Wallace
• Jeffrey Robinson
• ANTHOLOGY
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A diverse sampling of literature on the pleasures of walking, representing philosophers, naturalists, outcasts, athletes and intellectuals from Plato to Frank O'Hara.
(WLK08, $24.00)
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Walking
• Henry David Thoreau
• REFERENCE
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Slip this pocket edition of Thoreau's meditations on the spiritual benefits of this most civilized form of travel in your daypack for inspiration.
(WLK04, $9.99)
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Walking in the Dolomites
• Gillian Price
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive walker's guide to the Dolomites geared to a wide variety of difficulty levels. Illustrated with photographs and maps.
(ITL289, $19.95)
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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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Watermark
• Joseph Brodsky
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A metaphysical, metaphorical meditation on Venice by poet Joseph Brodsky. His ruminations take the form of 48 short chapters, each prompted by an idea, memory or scene associated with his much loved city.
(ITL105, $13.00)
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Wildflowers of Britain and Europe, Compact Guide
• W. Lippert
• D. Podlech
• FIELD GUIDE
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A compact photographic guide to British and European wildflowers, covering 350 of the most commonly encountered species. Flowers are organized by color for easy identification.
(EUR46, $19.99)
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Wine Country Europe, Touring, Tasting, And Buying At European Regional Wineries
• Ornella D'Alessio
• Marco Santini
• FOOD
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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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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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