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  • A British Boy in Fascist Italy

    by Peter Ghiringhelli ...
    Born in England to an Italian Fascist father, Peter Ghiringhelli's turbulent childhood saw him deported to Italy when Mussolini fatefully entered the Second World War. There Peter witnessed the totalitarian regime at first hand and recalls his experiences of cold and hunger, his own role in Fascist rallies as a member of the black-shirted Balilla and the fall of Mussolini, providing a captivating ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples

    by David Gilmour ...
    "In this superb history of Italy and the Italian people, Gilmour celebrates a nation of bewilderingly mixed bloods and ethnicities . . . an enduring tribute." —Ian Thomas, Evening StandardOne of The Economist 's Books of the YearDid Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mistake? The quest... ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Italian History and Culture

    by Gabrielle Euvino ...
    You’re no idiot, of course. You know there’s more to Italy’s rich tapestry than spaghetti and the Sicilian Mafia, but you also know you have a lot to learn about the country that brought you the paintings of Michelangelo, the poetry of Dante, and the Ferrari of your dreams.Get ready to indulge! The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Italian History and Culture will satisfy your thirst for all things ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Stones of Florence

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    A journey through the glorious Italian city's scenery, history, and culture, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Venice Observed and The Group.Mary McCarthy's classic celebrates the Italian city often looked upon as the provincial sister to the better-dressed, more "feminine" Venice.To McCarthy, Florence, or Firenze, is a place of ageless enchantment, from the Duomo to the fortressed ... Read more

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  • A History of Sicily, 491-289 B.C

    by A.H. Allcroft ...
    A.H. Allcroft's A History of Sicily is one of the most comprehensive works on the ancient history of Sicily, making it a must read for anyone interested in antiquity. ... Read more

    $2.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fall

    A father's memoir in 424 steps

    by Diogo Mainardi ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa ...
    THE FALL is a memoir like no other. Its 424 short passages match the number of steps taken by Diogo Mainardi's son Tito as he walks, with great difficulty, alongside his father through the streets of Venice, the city where a medical mishap during Tito's birth left him with Cerebral Palsy.As they make their way toward the hospital where both their lives changed forever, Mainairdi begins to draw on ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • CASA NOSTRA, DESSERTS OF COSA NOSTRA

    by Caterina Bartoldi ...
    CASA NOSTRA, DESSERTS OF COSA NOSTRA…Did you know?The most well-known Italian desserts in the world are almost all Sicilian: Panna Cotta, Tiramisu, Cannoli, Cassata ... and many others.Be seduced by the "Pineapple Big Shot", the "Chocolate Cupola" and "Hazelnut and chocolate bullets"!This richly illustrated book has been "cooked" with love. It includes my grandmother’s flagship Sicilian desserts ... Read more

    $10.16 USD

  • Daughters of Alchemy

    Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

    by Meredith K. Ray ...
    Series series I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    The era of the Scientific Revolution has long been epitomized by Galileo. Yet many women were at its vanguard, deeply invested in empirical culture. They experimented with medicine and practical alchemy at home, at court, and through collaborative networks of practitioners. In academies, salons, and correspondence, they debated cosmological discoveries; in their literary production, they used ... Read more

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  • GAGLIAUDO English screenplay

    by Liliana Angela Angeleri ...
    Red Bear besieged Alexandria (October 1174-April1175) and hopes to take the city, starvation after a few months. The population of the new town out, after a while, thefood. A sudden intuition suggests Gagliaudo, only to still have a cow to look for the city the few remaining grains. Manages to win the distrust of fellow citizens who help it to mix in a mash of the few remaining seeds for the last ... Read more

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  • Peasant Women and Politics in Fascist Italy

    The Massaie Rurali

    by Perry Willson ...
    Peasant women were the largest female occupational group in Italy between the wars. They led lives characterised by great poverty and heavy workloads, but Fascist propaganda extolled them as the mothers of the nation and the guardians of the rural worlds, the most praiseworthy of Italian women.This study is the first published history of the Massaie Rurali, the Fascist Party's section for peasant ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Italy

    Challenging National Homogeneity

    by Cristina Lombardi-Diop ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This volume constitutes a multidisciplinary intervention into the emerging field of postcolonial studies in Italy, bringing together cultural and social history, critical and political theory, literary and cinematic analyses, ethnomusicology and cultural studies, anthropological fieldwork, and race, gender, diaspora, and urban studies. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD