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  • The Novelist and the Archivist

    Fiction and History in Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed

    by C. Povolo ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In the 19th century, Alessandro Manzoni dedicated himself to writing the novel I promessi sposi that encouraged the Italian Risorgimento. This book traces how the renowned novelist was inspired by an event that occurred at the beginning of the 17th century, which he came to know about thanks to the secret collaboration of a Venetian archivist. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Naples '44

    A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy

    by Norman Lewis ...
    The classic memoir of the Italian city left in chaos by the Nazis is "[a] masterpiece . . . elegiac and furious, and frequently hilarious" ( The New York Times)."Vivid, lucid, elegant, often funny," Naples '44 is the starkly human account of the true cost of war as seen through the eyes of a young, untested man who would never again look at his world the same way ( The New York Times Book Review) ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ultimate Rodrigo Borgia Collection

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Includes:•Charles River Editors original biography of Rodrigo Borgia•Arnold Mathews The Life and Times of Rodrigo Borgia , Pope Alexander VIAlexander never did what he said.Cesare never said what he did. Italian ProverbThere have been no shortage of controversial Popes who were accused by Catholics and other Christians of impropriety, but the most controversial of all was the Borgia Pope, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Let's Explore Italy (Most Famous Attractions in Italy)

    Italy Travel Guide

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Explore the World Books
    Italia - the land of pizza and pasta. But do you know that there's more this delightful place than all the delicious food? This picture book features the must-see places in Italy. It defines great activities that you can do and what to expect the moment you arrive. Picture books are essential in encouraging participation, which is the foundation of active and effective learning. Grab a copy today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Thinking Italian Animals

    Human and Posthuman in Modern Italian Literature and Film

    Edited by D. Amberson, E. Past ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 major strands of philosophical thought: perceived borders between man and animals, historical and fictional crises, and human entanglement with the nonhuman and material world. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Works of Claudio Magris: Temporary Homes, Mobile Identities, European Borders

    by N. Pireddu ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Italian scholar, novelist, journalist, and philosopher Claudio Magris is among the most prominent of living European intellectuals. This study is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Magris's corpus for an English-speaking audience and addresses the crucial question of the return to humanism that is moving literature and theory forward. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Algerian Literature

    A Reader’s Guide and Anthology

    by Abdelkader Aoudjit ...
    Series Book 66 - Francophone Cultures and Literatures
    The only up-to-date and comprehensive text and reader of Algerian literature available in English, Algerian Literature: A Reader’s Guide and Anthology offers the reader a historical and critical overview of the literature from the early twentieth century to the present, introduces Algerian authors, and provides selections from a wide range of their writings, many translated here for the first time ... Read more

    $125.59 USD

  • Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914

    by Valeria P. Babini, Chiara Beccalossi, Lucy Riall ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores nineteenth-century Italian sexualities from a variety of viewpoints, illuminating in particular personal and political relationships, same-sex desires, gender roles that defy societal norms, sexual behaviours of different classes and transnational encounters. ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Ideologies and Forms of Leisure and Recreation in Victorian Manchester

    by Beata Kiersnowska ...
    Series Book 7 - Studies in Linguistics, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
    This book analyses certain ideologies which governed the middle class’ hegemonic approach to leisure in Victorian Manchester. The study presents different forms of leisure, recreation and entertainment in the city. The author also examines the reasons for the support and financial involvement of Manchester bourgeoisie and its municipal authorities in their development. The analysis covers a wide ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory

    Transitions and Transformations

    Edited by Marguerite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack, Ruud van den Beuken ...
    Series Book 79 - Reimagining Ireland
    Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory presents the latest research from Irish studies scholars across a variety of disciplines, including history, literature, theatre, photography and folklore, and generates new and challenging insights into the dynamics of cultural remembrance in Irish society. Featuring contributions by leading researchers in the field such as Guy Beiner, Graham Dawson and ... Read more

    $70.09 USD

  • The Foundations of Medieval Papal Legation

    by K. Rennie ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Kriston R. Rennie examines the origins and development of medieval papal representation by exploring the legate's wider historical, legal, diplomatic, and administrative impact on medieval European law and society. This critical study is key to understanding the growth and power of the medieval Church and papacy in the early Middle Ages. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • A History of Earliest Italy (Routledge Revivals)

    by Missimo Pallottino ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    In A History of Earliest Italy, first published in 1984, Professor Pallottino illumines the wide variety of peoples, languages, and traditions of culture and trade that constituted the pre-Roman Italic world.Since the written sources are fragmentary, archaeology provides the central reservoir for evidence of the societies and institutions of the varied peoples of early Italy. This incisive and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD