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  • The World of Dante

    Six Studies in Language and Thought

    Series series Heritage
    In celebration of the 700th anniversary of the birth of Dante in 1265 the Dante Society of Toronto invited six internationally known scholars to address its members. Believing that the greatest tribute to Dante lies in the constant acquisition of a deeper knowledge of his work, the Society prescribed no common theme, but asked only that each paper should present an original contribution to Dante ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Venetian Empire

    A Sea Voyage

    by Jan Morris ...
    For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean – an empire of coasts, islands and isolated fortresses by which, as Wordsworth wrote, the mercantile Venetians 'held the gorgeous east in fee'.Jan Morris reconstructs the whole of this glittering dominion in the form of a sea-voyage, travelling along the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

    Translated by S. Middlemore ...
    For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice and Rome as providing the seeds of a new form of society, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal

    Workers and Workplace in the Preindustrial City

    Series Book 109 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    Winner of the American Catholic Historical Association's Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian HistoryThe master ship builders of seventeenth-century Venice formed part of what was arguably the greatest manufacturing complex in early modern Europe. As many as three thousand masters, apprentices, and laborers regularly worked in the city's enormous shipyards. This is the social history of the men and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Binding Passions

    Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance

    Mining the rich Venetian archives, especially the unusually detailed records of Venice's own branch of the Roman Inquisition, Guido Ruggiero provides a strikingly new and provocative interpretation of the end of the Renaissance in Italy. In this boldly structured work, he develops five narrative accounts of individual encounters with the Inquisition that illustrate the double-edged metaphor of how ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Italian Hours

    by Henry James ...
    "The charm of certain vacant grassy spaces, in Italy, overfrowned by masses of brickwork that are honeycombed by the suns of centuries, is something that I hereby renounce once for all the attempt to express; but you may be sure that whenever I mention such a spot enchantment lurks in it." —Henry JamesIn these essays on travels in Italy written from 1872 to 1909, Henry James explores art and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • A Vatican Lifeline '44

    Allied Fugitives aided by the Italian Resistance foil the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied Rome

    A memoir of an Allied soldier and former POW in Rome, and the unexpected support he received from the Italian people—and from a heroic Catholic monsignor.It is a widely held belief that the Italians in the Second World War failed to win much in the way of martial glory. But the scoffers tend to overlook the fact that most Italians had little or no feeling of animosity toward the Allies—and to wage ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paolo Giovio

    The Historian and the Crisis of Sixteenth-Century Italy

    Best-known for his sweeping narrative Histories of His Own Times and for his portrait museum on Lake Como, the Italian bishop and historian Paolo Giovio (1486-1552) had contact with many of the protagonists of the great events he so vividly described--the wars of France, Germany, and Spain, and the sack of Rome. He used the information he gleaned from his contacts to carry on an extensive ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Power & Purity

    Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy

    by Carol Lansing ...
    Catharism was a popular medieval heresy based on the belief that the creation of humankind was a disaster in which angelic spirits were trapped in matter by the devil. Their only goal was to escape the body through purification. Cathars denied any value to material life, including the human body, baptism, and the Eucharist, even marriage and childbirth. What could explain the long popularity of ... Read more

    $53.99 USD $43.99 USD

  • Forbidden Friendships

    Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence

    by Michael Rocke ...
    Series series Studies in the History of Sexuality
    "This is a superb work of scholarship, impossible to overpraise.... It marks a milestone in the 20-year rise of gay and lesbian studies."--Martin Duberman, The Advocate The men of Renaissance Florence were so renowned for sodomy that "Florenzer" in German meant "sodomite." In the late fifteenth century, as many as one in two Florentine men had come to the attention of the authorities for sodomy by ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Ladies Errant

    Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy

    by Deanna Shemek ...
    The issue of a woman’s place—and the possibility that she might stray from it—was one of early modern Italy’s most persistent social concerns. Ladies Errant takes as its starting point the vast literature of this era devoted to the proper conduct and education of women. Deanna Shemek uses this foundation to present the problem of wayward feminine behavior as it was perceived to threaten male ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade

    by Douglas Allen ...
    Series series Theorists of Myth
    This multidisciplinary study is the first book devoted entirely to the critical interpretation of the writings of Mircea Eliade on myth. One of the most popular and influential historians and theorists of myth, Eliade argued that all myth is religious. Douglas Allen critically interprets Eliade's theories of religion, myth, and symbolism and analys ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Tempietto del Clitunno near Spoleto

    This is the first full-length study of the enigmatic Early Medieval chapel near the river Clitunno in central Umbria. Judson Emerick makes the Tempietto del Clitunno, a celebrated art-historical test case, the focus of a study that penetrates to the deep structure of the discipline.For centuries scholars have puzzled over the chapel's lavish Corinthian column screens, the crosses surrounded by Neo ... Read more

    $133.99 USD

  • The Monster in the Machine

    Magic, Medicine, and the Marvelous in the Time of the Scientific Revolution

    by Zakiya Hanafi ...
    The Monster in the Machine tracks the ways in which human beings were defined in contrast to supernatural and demonic creatures during the time of the Scientific Revolution. Zakiya Hanafi recreates scenes of Italian life and culture from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries to show how monsters were conceptualized at this particular locale and historical juncture—a period when the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Jacob Burckhardt was born in 1818 in Basel, Switzerland. He studied history at the University of Berlin and taught art history and the Italian Renaissance in Berlin and Basel. His essay, as he called The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, was first published in 1860. Rich in its detailed account of the arts, fashions, manners, and thought of one of the most innovative eras in human history, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528

    Set in the middle of the Italian Riviera, Genoa is perhaps best known as the birthplace of Christopher Columbus. But Genoa was also one of medieval Europe's major centers of trade and commerce. In Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528, Steven Epstein has written the first comprehensive history of the city that traces its transformation from an obscure port into the capital of a small but thriving ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991

    Updated and revised edition

    by Bahru Zewde ...
    Series series Eastern African Studies
    Updated and revised edition.Bahru Zewde has updated the first edition, adding a new chapter and taking the history through to 1991.'The new chapter enhances the value of the book as the best historical introduction to modern Ethiopia. The account of the Revolution, contained in 41 pages, is nuanced and worthy of attention in its own right... In short, the updating of an already indispensable book. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice

    Series series Studies in the History of Sexuality
    Based on a fascinating body of previously unexamined archival material, this book brings to life the lost voices of ordinary Venetians during the age of Catholic revival. Looking at scripts that were brought to the city's ecclesiastical courts by spouses seeking to annul their marriage vows, this book opens up the emotional world of intimacy and conflict, sexuality, and living arrangements that ... Read more

    $53.99 USD $40.99 USD

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

    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

    $11.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • Roman Social History

    Series series Classical Foundations
    This lively and original guidebook is the first to show students new to the subject exactly what Roman social history involves, and how they can study it for themselves.After presenting a short history of the development and current position of the discipline, the author discusses the kinds of evidence that can be used, and the full range of resources available. Two case-studies provide practical ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Cultural Identity in the Roman Empire

    This provocative and often controversial volume examines concepts of ethnicity, citizenship and nationhood, to determine what constituted cultural identity in the Roman Empire. The contributors draw together the most recent research and use diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives from archaeology, classical studies and ancient history to challenge our basic assumptions of Romanization ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Puppetmasters

    The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy

    The CIA has been accused of a massive intelligence failure in the run-up to the 9/11 attacks -- the result, it is said, of a moralistic and bureaucratic approach to information-gathering. But the CIA's spies had few qualms when it came to cultivating terrorist organisations and interfering in the internal politics of Cold War Italy. Puppetmasters reveals how US intelligence services exploited the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Remaking Italy in the Twentieth Century

    Although the unification of Italy in 1870 initially defined the nation's geographic boundaries, Italians faced the new challenge of determining their nation's social, political, and cultural identity as they entered the twentieth century. In Remaking Italy in the Twentieth Century, noted scholar Roy P. Domenico examines the struggle between Liberals, Fascists, Marxists, and Catholics to recast the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Finding Italian Roots. Second Edition

    The Complete Guide for Americans

    Since "Finding Italian Roots" first appeared in 1993, an ever increasing number of Americans have become interested in tracing their Italian heritage. This thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded Second Edition provides up-to-date information about accessing and interpreting the vast universe of materials available for tracking Italian ancestors and recording their stories for future generations ... Read more

    $9.99 USD