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Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History
Hughes, Robert
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Hughes opens this authoritative, searingly smart history with his own arrival in Rome in 1958, as a wide-eyed 20-year-old from Australia. Readers see him blissfully plunging into the life of the city, his exhilaration palpable on the page, his life-long... [More...]


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The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples
Gilmour, David
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Did Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mis-take? The question is asked and answered in a number of ways in this engaging, original consideration of the many histories... [More...]


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On Liberal Revolution
Gobetti, Piero
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This book is the first English-language edition of a collection of writings by one of Italy's most important radical liberals, Piero Gobetti (1901-1926). In thirty-five thought-provoking essays, Gobetti proposes an original and challenging notion of... [More...]


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The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
Hibbert, Christopher
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It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and controlled politics, scientists, artists, and even popes, for three hundred years. It was the house of Medici,... [More...]


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The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
Ward-Perkins, Bryan
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Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians into Roman culture, an essentially positive... [More...]


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Sicily: An Illustrated History
Privitera, Joseph F.
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This concise history relates how Sicily rose to become the first independent, civilized nation of greater Italy, and home to many of the world's most distinguished philosophers, mathematicians, scientists, and artists. The narrative subsequently recounts... [More...]


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The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice
Ruggiero, Guido
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Renewing Italian Socialism: Nenni to Craxi
Di Scala, Spencer M.
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The first comprehensive history of Italian Socialism in English, this book ranges from the defeat of Socialism by Mussolini in 1926 to its resurgence as a powerful force in Italian politics today. Di Scala has not only combed the archives of Italy and... [More...]


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Italian Communism in Transition: The Rise and Fall of the Historic Compromise in Turin, 1975-1980
Hellman, Stephen
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In the mid-1970s, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) almost succeeded in entering the national government; however, by the end of the decade its popularity had dramatically declined. Providing a first-hand view of the turbulent period from 1975 to 1980, this... [More...]


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The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice
Ruggiero, Guido
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