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These 5 items are available for $93, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXITL377)

Eyewitness Guide Florence & Tuscany  •  Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2006 •  PAPER  • 312 PAGES This superb guide features color photography, dozens of excellent maps and a neighborhood-by-neighborhood synopsis of the region's attractions. (ITL46, $25.00)
Renaissance Florence, The Invention of a New Art  •  A. Richard Turner ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2005 •  PAPER  • 176 PAGES Taking as his cue the great art and famous monuments of Florence, Turner explores the cultural and social history of the city. It's an art and architecture oriented guide with abundant color illustrations. A volume in the Prentice Hall Perspectives series. Second edition. (ITL50, $32.60)
The City of Florence, Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings  •  R.W.B. Lewis CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1996 •  PAPER  • 350 PAGES • FAVORITE A personal and vivid tour of the city and its riches which interweaves Florence's history with personal observation by the fine biographer of Edith Wharton and Henry James. Lewis has written what he calls "a partial biography of Florence." (ITL47, $19.00)
The House of Medici, Its Rise and Fall  •  Christopher Hibbert HISTORY •  1982 •  PAPER  • 364 PAGES This is a great book to read before going to Florence, where the influence of the Medicis and the artists they supported is still very much in evidence. It's a history of the powerful Florentine family by the entertaining and informative Christopher Hibbert. He evokes the Medici and their reign over Florence in the 1500's, and the political intrigue and violence of those times. (ITL135, $16.00)
Florence Map  •  Borch Maps 2006 •  MAP A detailed, plastic-covered city map of Florence at a scale of 1:7,000. Folds for easy carrying. Two Sides. 20x26 inches. (ITL59, $7.95)

Blue Guide Florence  •  Alta MacAdam   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive guide to Florence, heavily focused on art and architecture. This edition also includes practical information on hotels, restaurants and shops. (ITL137, $27.95)
City Secrets: Florence, Venice, and the Towns of Italy  •  Robert Kahn   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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)
Fodor's Florence's 25 Best  •  Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This shirt-pocket guide includes an excellent map and essential information on the city's highlights, including sightseeing, restaurants and shopping. (ITL140, $11.95)
Made in Italy, A Shopper's Guide  •  Laura Morelli   • GUIDEBOOK  •  The second edition of Morelli's expert survey of handcrafted Italian shops and products from Murano glass to ceramics, jewelry and leather. (ITL473, $24.95)
The Food Lover's Guide to Florence, With Culinary Excursions in Tuscany  •  Emily Wise Miller   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Miller polled neighbors, friends, cooks and ordinary folk for this delectable guide to 125 eateries, organized by neighborhood. (ITL841, $14.95)
Biba's Italy  •  Biba Caggiano   • FOOD  •  Ms. 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)
Florence, A Portrait  •  Michael Levey   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A history of Florence as seen through its art. A "New York Times Book Review" Notable Book of the Year. (ITL136, $22.95)
La Bella Lingua, My Love Affair with Italian, The World's Most Enchanting Language  •  Dianne Hales   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Inebriated with the sounds of Italian, lovesick for its phrases and enamored of its earthy idioms, Diane Hales, "a sensible woman of sturdy Polish stock," dives into the Italian of the piazze, literature, movies and streets in this charming memoir, travelogue and cultural primer. Brava, Signora! (ITA26, $24.95)
The Renaissance, A Short History  •  Paul Johnson   • HISTORY  •  The history, background, literature, sculpture, paintings and architecture of the Renaissance in just over 200 lively, thought-provoking pages. (ITL774, $14.00)
Brunelleschi's Dome, How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture  •  Ross King   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  The story of the design and construction of the dome in the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, a tale rife with politics, cut-throat competition and mighty inspiration. (ITL410, $15.00)
The Art of Florence  •  John Hunisak  •  Glen Andres  •  A. Richard Turner   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A magnificent, prize-winning survey of Florentine painting, architecture and sculpture. With 1,500 illustrations and essays by leading historians on painting, architecture and sculpture. (ITL474, $185.00)
The Art of the Renaissance  •  Peter Murray   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  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)
The Stones of Florence  •  Mary McCarthy   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  The classic history of the art, architecture and culture of Florence. Novelist McCarthy takes us on a quick and vivid tour of the history of the Medicis and the city of Florence, focusing on Renaissance art. (ITL15, $14.00)
Leonardo da Vinci  •  Sherwin B. Nuland   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  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)
Murder of a Medici Princess  •  Caroline P. Murphy   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Murphy sketches the life and times of Isabella de Medici with authority and drama, bringing to life the intrigue, scandal and privilege of the 16th-century Florentine royal court. Isabella was murdered by her husband in a fit of jealous rage at the age of 33. (ITL929, $16.95)
A Traveller's Companion to Florence  •  Edward Chaney  •  Harold Acton   • ANTHOLOGY  •  This illuminating guide brings Florence to life through the letters, diaries and memoirs of travelers and Florentines from past centuries. The selections, from Boccaccio to D.H. Lawrence, are as rich as the city itself. (ITL485, $16.95)
A Room with a View  •  E.M. Forster   • LITERATURE  •  E.M. Forster's classic tale of love among the middle classes, set largely in Florence. (ITL142, $9.95)
Death of an Englishman  •  Magdalen Nabb   • MYSTERY  •  The debut of Nabb's highly readable, atmospheric Marshal Guarnaccia series, set in Florence on Christmas Eve. (ITL639, $12.00)
Tea With Mussolini  •  Franco Zeffirelli   • LITERATURE  •  Zeffirelli's enchanting autobiographical film about a boy in Florence in the years before World War II, with a cast of great English and American actresses. (ITL700, $14.95)
The Agony and the Ecstasy, A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo  •  Irving Stone   • LITERATURE  •  An overheated, page-turning fictionalized account of the life of master painter and sculptor Michelangelo -- and a good introduction to Renaissance Florence and Rome. (ITL150, $16.00)
The Birth of Venus, A Novel  •  Sarah Dunant   • LITERATURE  •  A rich novel of art, passion and patronage, memorably set in late 15th-century Florence and prominently featuring the famously pious reformer Savonarola. (ITL532, $13.95)
The Italian Lover  •  Robert Hellenga   • LITERATURE  •  A novel of food, romance and Florence, Hellenga's exhilarating sequel to The Sixteen Pleasures finds Margot Harrington overseeing the production of a film based on her experiences in the first installment. (ITL892, $14.99)
The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales  •  Elizabeth Spencer   • LITERATURE  •  The touching tale of young (and not so young) love, now a Broadway musical. Spencer, a southerner like her characters Margaret and Clara, writes eloquently of the transformation of a mother and daughter by Florence. (ITL628, $22.00)