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Hardback. Paolo Giovio's dialogue provides an informed perspective on the sack of Rome in 1527, from a friend of Pope Clement VII. The work discusses literary style and whether the vernacular could surpass Latin as a vehicle for literary expression. This volume includes a fresh edition of the Latin text and the first translation into English. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 668 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; DSBD; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 137 x 52. Weight in Grams: 894.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 668
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674055056
- ISBN
- 9780674055056
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.54
€ 50.54
Hardcover. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. In this book, the author resurrects forgotten tales and restores to life the long-silent voices of these cloistered heroines. The nuns of early modern Italy, it shows, set the standard for religious transgression in their own age - and beyond. Num Pages: 264 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLH; HRCX8; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226534619
- ISBN
- 9780226534619
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.77
€ 67.77
Paperback. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. In this book, the author resurrects forgotten tales and restores to life the long-silent voices of these cloistered heroines. The nuns of early modern Italy, it shows, set the standard for religious transgression in their own age - and beyond. Num Pages: 264 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; 3JD; HRCC7; HRCX8; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226534725
- ISBN
- 9780226534725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.17
€ 33.17
Hardcover. For more than 50 years, Giacomo Debenedetti's "October 16, 1943" has been considered one of the best accounts of the shockingly brief roundup of 1000 Roman Jews for the gas chambers of Auschwitz. This collection also includes "Eight Jews", the companion piece to "October 16, 1943". Translator(s): Gilson, Estelle. Num Pages: 112 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268037130
- ISBN
- 9780268037130
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.43
€ 35.43
Paperback. In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter, Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf. The author follows Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life. He writes of the elderly painter with the intimacy of an old friend, seeing through his eyes and sharing the silence in his head. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; ACV; AFC; AGB; BGH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099437253
- ISBN
- 9780099437253
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.57
€ 14.99
€ 11.57
General merchandise. Puglia is the heel stretching down from the spur of the Italian boot. It boasts beautiful landscapes, Romanesque cathedrals, Gothic castles and a wealth of Baroque architecture. This introduction to Apulian history is the first comprehensive historical survey of the region in English and provides an enlightening, readable overview of the region. BIC Classification: WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. .
- Publisher
- The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909961203
- ISBN
- 9781909961203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.27
€ 16.99
€ 13.27
Paperback. Featuring with fifty-two images created from 1982 to 2009, this title focuses on Olivo Barbieri's entire oeuvre, revealing the multifaceted contours of an unusual Italy. Editor(s): Zannier, Sabrina. Num Pages: 136 pages, 55 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; AGB; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 281 x 241 x 14. Weight in Grams: 902.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Skira Italy
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788857207315
- ISBN
- 9788857207315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 28.72
€ 32.99
€ 28.72
Paperback. This book presents a critical analysis of Portuguese Nobel Laureate Jos Saramagos three novels, Baltasar and Blimunda (1982), The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984), and The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989). Num Pages: 207 pages. BIC Classification: 1DS; DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557536976
- ISBN
- 9781557536976
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.22
€ 52.22
Paperback. With both a native s intimacy and the fresh-eye of an outsider, Simeti celebrates the Mediterranean island she and the Greek goddess of the harvest call home. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSTC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Eland Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780601076
- ISBN
- 9781780601076
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.84
€ 16.99
€ 12.84
Paperback. Presents an overview of the Spanish architecture in the 21st century. This book reflects the geographic and generational diversity of the projects and their architects, as well as a range of scales, from a private house to an international airport. Num Pages: 280 pages, 514 illustrations, 313 in colour. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JMC; AM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 276 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1394.
- Publisher
- Museum of Modern Art
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780870704994
- ISBN
- 9780870704994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 28.02
€ 32.99
€ 28.02
Hardback. Talks about Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457), one of the most important theorist of the humanist movement. He wrote a major work on Latin style, "On Elegance in the Latin Language", which became a battle-standard in the struggle for the reform of Latin across Europe, and "Dialectical Disputations", a wide-ranging attack on scholastic logic. Translator(s): Bowersock, G. W. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; CFA; HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674025332
- ISBN
- 9780674025332
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.39
€ 50.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADL; CFG; HBJD; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 248 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0000302
- ISBN
- 9780801495113
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Fond remembrances of Italy by an American journalist who spent seven years in Rome. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; BGA; DS; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Roberts Rinehart Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570980190
- ISBN
- 9781570980190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.51
€ 14.51
Paperback. A spellbinding journey into the heart of Neapolitan life. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; BM; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Fleet
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349006321
- ISBN
- 9780349006321
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.80
€ 14.99
€ 11.80
Paperback. Shows how opera took root in the social and economic environment of seventeenth-century Venice and there developed the stylistic and aesthetic characteristics we recognize as opera. This book examines critically the literary and musical documentation left by the Venetian makers of opera. It explains the mechanics of the proliferation of opera. Num Pages: 710 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; AVGC9; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 174 x 253 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1220.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 710
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254268
- ISBN
- 9780520254268
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 80.38
€ 80.38
Hardcover. This sixth volume in the series centres on the sociological and critical aspects of opera in Italy, considering the art in the context of an Italian literary and cultural canon rarely revealed in English and American studies. Editor(s): Bianconi, Lorenzo; Pestelli, Giorgio. Translator(s): Chalmers, Kenneth. Series: History of Italian Opera, Part 2 - Systems. Num Pages: 504 pages, 48 halftones, 4 musical examples, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1DST; AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 167 x 38. Weight in Grams: 832.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226045924
- ISBN
- 9780226045924
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.55
€ 135.55
Hardback. A major new benchmark study of Operation Barbarossa by Christer Bergstrom, renowned WWII historian and author of the critically acclaimed The Ardennes 1944-1945: Hitler's Winter Offensive and The Battle of Britain: An Epic Conflict Revisited. Num Pages: 300 pages, 300. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 307 x 220 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1506.
- Publisher
- Casemate Publishers
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612004013
- ISBN
- 9781612004013
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 48.68
€ 48.99
€ 48.68
Hardback. Series: AIA Monographs. Num Pages: 200 pages, 31 b/w figs, 25 b/w pls, 13 tbs. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1QDAR; AFP; HDDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 280 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 807.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Archaeological Institute of America United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781931909037
- ISBN
- 9781931909037
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.22
€ 30.22
Hardcover. Deals with the 'other Italy', that is the rural Italy, far from the bustle of the cities. This book features eight stories that tell of the land and the people, of the wild landscape of Calabria and its Mafia, of rural festivals, Christmas customs, Italian food, abandoned farms - and of 'Nonno', a grand-father. Num Pages: 216 pages, 130 photos. BIC Classification: 1DST; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 308 x 288 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783936681437
- ISBN
- 9783936681437
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.34
€ 14.99
€ 12.34
Hardback. Editor(s): Pittau, Francesco. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 232 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634638364
- ISBN
- 9781634638364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 234.07€ 175.14
€ 234.07
€ 175.14
Paperback. English-speaking philosophers are generally attuned to the German and French philosophical traditions but not to the Spanish. This anthology intends to introduce the Spanish philosophical tradition to English-speaking readers. Editor(s): Welch, John R. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268044190
- ISBN
- 9780268044190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.14
€ 49.14
Hardback. This book offers a reading of Andalusi, Jewish, and Arabic texts that represent the 12th and 13th centuries as the end of el-Andalus (Islamic Spain). Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2CSJ; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741200
- ISBN
- 9780804741200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.29
€ 162.29
Hardback. Analysing the dynamics of the post-1990 Albanian migration to Italy, this book is the first major study of one of Europe's newest, most dramatic yet least understood migrations. It takes a close look at migrants' employment, housing and social exclusion in the country, as well as the process of return migration to Albania. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1DVWA; 3JJPR; 3JMC; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455446
- ISBN
- 9781845455446
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.43
€ 149.43
Hardback. The illuminating intellectual biography of one of the most controversial Italian figures of the twentieth century. Series: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823245642
- ISBN
- 9780823245642
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.93
€ 105.93