The Princess Guide to Rome By Belinda Darcey

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Title	:	The Princess Guide to Rome
Author	:	Belinda Darcey
ISBN	:
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	294

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Packed with truly helpful information and well researched background stories on the art that fills every corner of Rome, this travel guide is a trip in itself Written in a deliciously irreverent tone, The Princess Guide To Rome 2014 covers all the fabulous stuff that s so often missing from other travel guide books on Rome and Italy.The first half is all the practical a Packed with truly helpful information and well researched background stories on the art that fills every corner of Rome, this travel guid...

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The Red Lily Crown By Elizabeth Loupas

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Title	:	The Red Lily Crown
Author	:	Elizabeth Loupas
ISBN	:	0451418875
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	418

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Elizabeth Loupas returns with her most ambitious historical novel yet, a story of intrigue, passion, and murder in the Medici Court April, 1574, Florence, Italy Grand Duke Cosimo de Medici lies dying The city is paralyzed with dread, for the next man to wear the red lily crown will be Prince Francesco despotic, dangerous, and obsessed with alchemy Chiara Nerini, th Elizabeth Loupas returns with her most ambitious historical novel yet, a story of intrigue, passion, and murder in the Medici Court ...

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Casa Rossa By Francesca Marciano

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Title	:	Casa Rossa
Author	:	Francesca Marciano
ISBN	:	0375726373
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	352

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A crumbling farmhouse in Puglia, Casa Rossa was bought by Alina Strada s grandfather at a time when no one else wanted it Now busy preparing it for sale, Alina endeavors to recover the memories it still harbors in particular of three women whose passions indelibly shaped her family s dark past There s grandmother Renee, whose love of novelty won over everything else Ali A crumbling farmhouse in Puglia, Casa Rossa was bought by Alina Strada s grandfather at a time when no one else wanted it Now b...

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Saving Caravaggio By Neil Griffiths

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Title	:	Saving Caravaggio
Author	:	Neil Griffiths
ISBN	:	0670914630
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	352

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Under a searing Calabrian sky, detective Daniel Wright is shown the world s most famous stolen painting Caravaggio s Nativity As a Caravaggio lover and expert in art recovery, he is determined to rescue it from the Mafia bosses who use it as payment for drug deals and assassinations....

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Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini By Giorgio Bassani

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Title	:	Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini
Author	:	Giorgio Bassani
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This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy and in particular Ferrara in the last summers of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving imperceptibly towards its doom Vittorio De Sica turned the book into a film in 1970, winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974....

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Sonnets for Michelangelo By Vittoria Colonna

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Title	:	Sonnets for Michelangelo
Author	:	Vittoria Colonna
ISBN	:	0226113922
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	344

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The most published and lauded woman writer of early sixteenth century Italy, Vittoria Colonna 1490 1547 in effect defined what was the acceptable face of female authorship for her time Hailed by the generation s leading male literati as an equal, she was praised both for her impeccable command of Petrarchan style and for the unimpeachable chastity and piety of the per The most published and lauded woman writer of early sixteenth century Italy, Vittoria Colonna 1490 1547 in effect defined ...

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The World of Venice By Jan Morris

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Title	:	The World of Venice
Author	:	Jan Morris
ISBN	:	0156983567
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	320

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A fascinating exploration of the history, sights, seasons, arts, food, and people of an incomparable city A highly intelligent portrait of an eccentric city, written in powerful prose and enlivened by many curious mosaics of informationa beautiful book to read and to possess The Observer New Foreword by the Author Index....

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The Story of the Lost Child (The Neapolitan Novels #4) By Elena Ferrante

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Title	:	The Story of the Lost Child (The Neapolitan Novels #4)
Author	:	Elena Ferrante
ISBN	:	1609452860
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	480

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Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila Both are now adults life s great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered Through it all, the women s friendship has remained the gravitational center of their lives Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila Both are now adults life s great dis...

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Saul By Vittorio Alfieri

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Title	:	Saul
Author	:	Vittorio Alfieri
ISBN	:	8811583969
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	98

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Considerato il capolavoro di Alfieri, Saul una tragedia di argomento biblico, lineare nell intreccio ma potente e drammatica In primo piano la figura del sovrano nel suo animo nobile e sensibile albergano uno smisurato orgoglio e una cupezza sconsolata diviso tra cielo e terra, ribelle a Dio, non riesce a dominare l anelito che lo avvelena oltrepassare il limite Considerato il capolavoro di Alfieri, Saul una tragedia di argomento biblico, lineare nell intreccio ma potente e drammatica In primo p...

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That Fine Italian Hand By Paul Hofmann

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Title	:	That Fine Italian Hand
Author	:	Paul Hofmann
ISBN	:	0805017291
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	264

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No other people over so long a history have shown a greater knack for survival than the Italians In this wryly affectionate book, Hofmann reveals his adopted countrymen in all their glorious paradoxes, capturing their national essence as no other book has done since Luigi Barzini s classic, The Italians The national art of arrangement dodging taxes, double dealing, w No other people over so long a history have shown a greater knack for survival than the Italians In this wryly affectionate...

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Italy By Lawrence Venuti

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Title	:	Italy
Author	:	Lawrence Venuti
ISBN	:	1883513146
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	256

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Italy s rising literary stars join some of its best known writers including Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello, Natalia Ginzburg, Alberto Moravia, and Antonio Tabucchi to take the reader on a panoramic tour of both city and countryside, across the social spectrum, surveying the country s rich cultural history Explore Italy s popular tourist destinations and out of the wa Italy s rising literary stars join some of its best known writers including Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello, Natalia Ginzburg, Al...

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Ein Haus in Italien. By Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

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Title	:	Ein Haus in Italien.
Author	:	Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
ISBN	:	3458342176
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	294

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In Umbrien entdeckt die Autorin das Haus ihrer Tr ume einen halbzerfallenen Palazzo am Rand eines kleinen Dorfes Das Haus ist hohl und l chrig, es fehlen Fu b den und T ren, Abflu rohre und Wasser Dennoch st rzt sich Lisa unbeirrt mitsamt ihrer britisch schrulligen Familie, sechs Klavieren und zwanzig Katzen hinein in das Projekt Italien Die Dorfbewohner wundern sich, In Umbrien entdeckt die Autorin das Haus ihrer Tr ume einen halbzerfallenen Palazzo am Rand eines kleinen Dorfes Das Haus ist hohl und l ch...

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101 Places in Italy By Francis Russell

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Title	:	101 Places in Italy
Author	:	Francis Russell
ISBN	:	1908524332
Format	:	ebook
Number of Pages	:	288

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The author has achieved the near impossible a must squeeze into hand baggage or the back pack House and Garden A minor classic The Times Literary SupplementThis personal, and wonderfully well informed, selection of the most rewarding towns, cities, villages, and individual monuments in Italy is the definitive guidebook for the discerning traveler The author has been The author has achieved the near impossible a must squeeze into hand baggage or the back pack House and Garden A minor c...

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The Sixteen Pleasures By Robert Hellenga

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Title	:	The Sixteen Pleasures
Author	:	Robert Hellenga
ISBN	:	0385314698
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	384

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When book conservator Margo Harrington goes to Florence to aid in restoring the treasures damaged in the flooding of the Arno in 1966, she is entrusted with a rare book that its owner, the abbess of a convent, hopes to sell without the bishop s knowledge Nancy Pearl...

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In Tuscany By Frances Mayes

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Title	:	In Tuscany
Author	:	Frances Mayes
ISBN	:	0767905350
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	272

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Frances Mayes continues her love letter to Italy in this sequel to Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany The restoration of her home, Bramasole, is complete, but Tuscany keeps unfolding While the earlier books chronicled her and her husband s first years in Italy, this one is less full of stories than meditations on the elements of Tuscan pleasures, accompanied by photo Frances Mayes continues her love letter to Italy in this sequel to Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany The restoration of her home, B...

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Italian Fever By Valerie Martin

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Title	:	Italian Fever
Author	:	Valerie Martin
ISBN	:	0375705228
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	272

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Acutely observedcharmingly old fashioned Los Angeles TimesIn Italian Fever, Valerie Martin redefines the Gothic novel in a compelling tale of one woman s headlong tumble into a mystery, art, and eros.Part romance, part gothic suspense story and wholly entertaining, Italian Fever is the story of the awakening of Lucy Stark, an American pragmatist Lucy leads a quiet, Acutely observedcharmingly old fashioned Los Angeles TimesIn Italian Fever, Valerie Martin redefines the Gothic novel in a compe...

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The Venetian Contract By Marina Fiorato

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Title	:	The Venetian Contract
Author	:	Marina Fiorato
ISBN	:	1848545657
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	400

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