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Cadogan Guide Lombardy & the Italian Lakes
Dana Facaros
GUIDEBOOK
2008
PAPER
345 PAGES
A guide in the respected British series, this comprehensive look at northwest Italy from Milan to Verona and Bergamo includes insightful cultural and historical background, and up-to-date practical information on hotels, restaurants and bars. With an introductory photo-essay and 25 excellent maps.
(ITL44, $19.95) |
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A Traveller's History of Italy
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) |
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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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Italian Lakes Map
Litographia Artistica Cartographica
MAP
A detailed map of the Italian lakes region, including Orta, Lugano, Como and Maggiore, at the excellent scale of 1:100,000, produced in Italy. Two Sides. 25x35 inches.
(ITL431, $12.95) |
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Blue Guide Northern Italy, from the Alps to the Adriatic
Paul Blanchard
GUIDEBOOK
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) |
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Eyewitness Guide Milan and the Lakes
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
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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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) |
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Rick Steves' Italian Phrase Book & Dictionary
Rick Steves
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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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Italy, A Short History
Harry Hearder
HISTORY
Elegantly written, generous and informative, this compact book takes in the sweep of Italian history from the Roman Republic through the Renaissance, World War II and up to the present.
(ITL56, $26.99) |
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A Traveller in Italy
H.V. Morton
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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) |
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D.H. Lawrence and Italy
D.H. Lawrence
Tim Parks
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
This omnibus Penguin Classics edition includes three travel tales, each very different in tone and all wonderful: "Sea and Sardinia" is a nostalgic look at traditional ways of life; "Twilight in Italy" an evocation of Lawrence's memorable stay on Lake Garda; and "Etruscan Places" his musings on ancient sites, including the painted tombs of Tarquinia.
(ITL62, $21.15) |
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Italian Days
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
FAVORITE
Grizzuti Harrison writes with warmth and depth of her journey from Milan south to Calabria in this sprightly account of Italy and the Italians.
(ITL02, $15.00) |
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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) |
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The Surprise of Cremona: One Woman's Adventures in Cremona, Parma, Mantua, Ravenna, Urbino, and Arezzo
Edith Templeton
Anita Brookner
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
OUT OF PRINT
A new edition of Templeton's 1954 memoir of romance, travel and adventure in northern Italy. The novelist burnishes her reputation as an entertaining, adventurous Bohemian in this classic.
(ITL396, $27.50) |
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A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
LITERATURE
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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Good Blood
Aaron J. Elkins
MYSTERY
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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Italian Folktales
Italo Calvino
LITERATURE
A treasured collection of 200 lively folk tales presented by none other than the great Italo Calvino, a modern master with great affection for the folkloric traditions of his childhood.
(ITL314, $25.00) |
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Italy in Mind
Alice Powers
LITERATURE
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, $14.95) |
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The Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni
LITERATURE
By many accounts the first modern Italian novel, Manzoni's 1827 classic concerns star-crossed lovers in 17th-century Lombardy. Promoted during unification, Italy's best-known novel has been made into films and a musical.
(ITL414, $17.00) |
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The Devil in the Hills
Cesare Pavese
LITERATURE
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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On the Making of Gardens
George Sitwell
NATURAL HISTORY
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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Birds of Europe
Lars Svensson
Dan Zetterstrom
Killian Mullarney
FIELD GUIDE
FAVORITE
Featuring 3,500 glorious paintings by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom, this second revised edition of this exquisite guide has been brought up to date with revised text and maps.
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