360円 An epic endeavor by a man genuinely enamored of his native Rome, Livy's "The History of Rome" was originally written in 142 books spanning the entire history of the Roman people up to Livy's day in the time of Augustus in the first century BC. While this Roman historian's monumental undertaking t...

450円 *Analyzes the Borgias' legacies and how it endured over the centuries.*Examines the legends and rumors surrounding the Borgias in an attempt to separate fact from fiction.*Includes pictures depicting the Borgias and important people and places in their lives. .*Includes a Bibliography for further...

777円 The life and work of the great Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) have proved endlessly fascinating for generations. In Leonardo da Vinci, Sherwin Nuland completes his twenty-year quest to understand an unlettered man who was a painter, architect, engineer, phi...

1,227円 In the 10th century, being head of the Catholic Church didnt stop Pope John XII from allegedly committing incest with his sisters, calling on pagan gods and goddesses, being an alcoholic and putting his mistress in charge of his brothel. Of course, being pope didnt make popes popular either: in 8...

1,657円 In quaranta poesie di Maria D'Agnese Magliocca gli angoli più suggestivi di Gaeta descritti con straordinaria sensibilità . La raccolta, curata dal nipote Nicola Tarallo, è quasi una guida della città , reca informazioni su tradizioni, usi, ricorrenze e ravviva ricordi che possono sembrare pers...

2,388円 From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Monuments Men: "An astonishing account of a little-known American effort to save Italy's…art during World War II." ーTom Brokaw When Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures. A...

6,493円 Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the subject of the Counter-Reformation content of religious paintings. Despite its reputation as an art-historical text, this is the first English-language translation of Il Riposo to be published. A distillatio...

10,613円 This study is the first to examine the important political role played by astrology in Italian court culture. Reconstructing the powerful dynamics existing between astrologers and their prospective or existing patrons, The Duke and the Stars illustrates how the “predictive art” of astrology was a...

794円 Il giovanissimo conte Filiberto Saporiti deve raggiungere la sua promessa sposa Eleonora, figlia del barone siciliano Cutò di Camastra. Non l'ha mai vista, ma a quell'epoca - siamo nella seconda metà del '700 - i matrimoni dei rampolli delle famiglie nobili venivano combinati dalle famiglie…Ad ac...

200円 A handy guide giving dates and information about the Emperors of ancient Rome. The reign of each emperor is listed in chronological order. It is useful for quickly checking facts when watching TV, listening to a radio programme, writing an essay or a book.

600円 Includes:•Charles River Editors original biographies of Lucrezia, Cesare, and Rodrigo Borgia•Ferdinand Gregorovius biography of Lucrezia•Raphael Sabatinis The Life of Cesare Borgia•Arnold Mathews The Life and Times of Rodrigo Borgia , Pope Alexander VIAlexander never did what he said.Cesare never...

1,555円 One of Italy’s brightest literary lights reinvents travel writing with a seductive, intoxicating celebration of the magical saltwater city “Venice is a fish,” writes Tiziano Scarpa. “It’s like a vast sole stretched out against the deep. How did this marvelous beast make its way up the Adriatic an...