Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
THE LIFE of CESARE BORGIA, Of France, Duke of Valentinois and Romagna, Prince of Andria and Venafri… THE LIFE of CESARE BORGIA, Of France, Duke of Valentinois and Romagna, Prince of Andria and Venafri… Rafael Sabatini An excellent historical accounting of the life of **Cesare Borgia** by Rafael Sabatini. OL108452W
Leonardo and central Italian art, 1515-1550 Leonardo and central Italian art, 1515-1550 Kathleen Weil Garris Posner xi, 91 p., [16] leaves of plates : 29 cm OL13361338W
Corinne Corinne Madame de Staël "Corinne, or Italy (1807). A romantic novel by Mme de Staël. Oswald Nevil, and English lord, recuperating in Rome, meets the famous poetess Corinne, who, half-English and half-Italian, has exiled h… OL15894382W
The First Book of Italy The First Book of Italy Sam Epstein An introduction to Italy's geography, industries, cities, and people and their way of life. OL1590645W
Beautiful ruins Beautiful ruins Jess Walter The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an a… OL16664754W
A visit to Italy A visit to Italy Rachael Bell Introduces the land, landmarks, homes, food, clothes, work, transportation, language, schools, recreation, and culture of Italy. OL18250415W
Humanist educational treatises Humanist educational treatises Craig Kallendorf,Craig W. Kallendorf,Battista Guarino,Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini,Pier Paolo Vergerio,Leonardo Bruni "The cycle of disciplines now known as the humanities emerged in their modern form during the Italian Renaissance as the result of an educational movement begun by humanist teachers, writers, and sch… OL18521321W
Cloven Viscount Cloven Viscount Italo Calvino 115 pages ; 21 cm OL20126899W
From Sand and Ash From Sand and Ash Amy Harmon,Cassandra Campbell 375 pages ; 21 cm OL20805397W
Last Son's Secret Last Son's Secret Rafel Nadal Farreras 1 online resource (x, 384 pages) : OL21145733W
Hello Stranger Hello Stranger Motus 273 pages : 26 cm OL21147620W
Gio_Graphy Gio_Graphy Giovanna Battaglia,Natalie Massenet 221 pages : 26 cm OL21153322W
Everything Is Broken up and Dances Everything Is Broken up and Dances Antony Shugaar,Guido Maria Brera,Edoardo Nesi 197 pages ; 20 cm OL22535362W
The Infinite Passion of Life The Infinite Passion of Life D.J. Paolini **Finding yourself is worth the search.** Through a series of coincidences, Angelina begins to believe she might experience love and happiness with Benjamin. Her godmother Valentina is not so sure. … OL26913579W
The land and people of Italy The land and people of Italy Travis, David An introdution to the history, geography, economy, culture, and people of Italy. OL4079715W
Leonardo Leonardo Carlo Pedretti,Kunster,Erfinder,Wissenschaftler,Michael Desmond,Leonardo da Vinci Bill Gates bought the Codex Leicester a notebook of Leonardo da Vinci's scientific observations and theories in 1994 from the estate of Armand Hammer for $30.8 million. Last year Gates loaned the wor… OL695408W
Cartuja de Parma, La Cartuja de Parma, La Stendhal Headstrong and naive, the young Italian aristocrat Fabrizio del Dongo is determined to defy the wrath of his right-wing father and go to war to fight for Napoleon. He stumbles on the Battle of Waterl… OL733285W
Sometime In Sorrento Sometime In Sorrento David M. Addison Blundering about Sorrento and its environs in search of culture, the author unwittingly resists his wife's never ending attempts to civilise him. From the heights of Vesuvius, to the ruins of Pompeii… OL8781964W
Leonardo Leonardo Pietro C. Marani,Pinin Brambilla Barcilon "Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, one of the most important works of the Renaissance if not all of Western art, was painted between 1494 and 1498 in the refectory of Santa Maria della Grazie in Milan… OL960082W