3,236円 This book is as captivating as the city itself. Hibbert's gift is weaving political, social and art history into an elegantly readable and marvellously lively whole. The author's book on Florence will also be at once a history and a guide book and will be enhanced by splendid photographs and illu...

1,617円 The book that explains the whole extraordinary course of Italian history like no other in English The Pursuit of Italy traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable style, full of well-chosen stories and observations from personal experience, and peopled by many of t...

2,102円 At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. This enthralling book charts the fami...

131円 Il volume riproduce un estratto della Guerra combattuta in Italia negli anni 1848-’49 di Carlo Pisacane, relativo all’assedio di Roma (pp.247-311), preceduto da un quadro storico degli avvenimenti, che hanno preceduto il fatto narrato, e da un’introduzione circa le interpretazioni storiografiche ...

6,244円 For centuries, social life in rural Tuscany has centered around the veglia, an evening gathering of family and friends at the hearth. Folklore by the Fireside is a thorough and insightful study of this customーfrom the tales, riddles, lullabies, and folk prayers performed as the small children ar...

195円 Example in this ebook Many people from other lands have crossed the ocean to make a new home for themselves in America. They love its freedom. They are happy here under its kindly rule. They suffer less from want and hunger than in the country of their birthplace. Their children are blessed with ...

1,657円 “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” Meditations is a series of personal reflections by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161–180 CE, written over a series of years in far...

9,285円 This new edition of Peter Neville’s Mussolini traces and analyses the life of one of the most fascinating twentieth century European dictators, Benito Mussolini, while placing his life in its historic Italian context. Engaging and accessible, the Duce’s career is traced from his roots as a journa...

267円 EXTRAIT: L’an sept cent vingt-deux de la fondation de la ville et quatre cent quatre-vingts de l’expulsion des rois, on reprit à Rome l’usage d’obéir entièrement à un seul chef; mais au lieu d’un roi ce fut un empereur, ou plutôt on l’appela du nom plus sacré d’auguste. Ainsi Octavien, fils du sé...

267円 EXTRAIT: Procas, roi des Albains, eut deux fils, Amulius et Numitor ; il leur laissa le trône, en leur prescrivant de régner alternativement chacun pendant une année. Mais Amulius ne donna pas l’empire à son frère, et, pour le priver de postérité, il fit grande-prêtresse de Vesta, Rhéa Silvia, sa...

2,122円 The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring also rose to power and fame - L...

2,917円 In this colourful new history of Venice, Elizabeth Horodowich, one of the leading experts on Venice, tells the story of the place from its ancient origins, and its early days as a multicultural trading city where Christians, Jews and Muslims lived together at the crossroads between East and West....