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Firenze nel Quattrocento
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Antony Molho |
volumes ; 24 cm |
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The politics of Italy
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James Newell |
This innovative text provides a fresh approach to Italian politics, providing critical analysis in a comparative framework. |
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Italy and the European Union
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Federiga M. Bindi |
"Presents a comprehensive study of Italy's role in the European Union and what that country needs to do as a 'medium-sized power' to increase its influence in the EU, chiefly by putting forward well-… |
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Modern Italy
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Anna Cento Bull |
xvi, 140 pages : 18 cm |
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Midnight in Sicily
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Peter Robb |
Chronicles the relationship of Italy's high-ranking politicians with the Sicily Mafia from the end of World War II to the present |
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A bold and dangerous family
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Caroline Moorehead |
Mussolini was not only ruthless- he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him- arson, murder, destruction of homes and offices, bribes, intimidation and the forcible… |
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Gabriele d'Annunzio
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Lucy Hughes-Hallett |
A profile of the controversial Italian poet and nationalist is set against a backdrop of Italy's transition from Romantic idealism to fascism and war and includes coverage of such topics as his contr… |
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Operation Gladio
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Paul L. Williams |
"This disturbing expose describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Eu… |
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The Borgias
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Marion Johnson,Georgina Masson |
A lavishly illustrated biography of the Spanish family of colorful characters which produced two of the corrupt Renaissance popes. |
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Discovery of the world
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Luciana Castellina |
"Luciana Castellina is one of Italy's most prominent left intellectuals and a cofounder of the newspaper Il manifesto. In this coming-of-age memoir, based on her diaries, she recounts her political a… |
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Mussolini
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Denis Mack Smith |
The Mussolini who emerges from Denis Mack Smith's political biography is the supreme opportunist, more actor than statesman, with policies shaped chiefly by events. |
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Politics and Religion in Napoleonic Italy
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Michael Broers |
The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy explores the intense cultural conflict created by French rule in Italy at the start of the nineteenth century. Napoleon's desire for cultural conformity s… |
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Emerging Themes and Institutional Responses
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Mario Caciagli,Alan S. Zuckerman |
Italian politics continue to chart new institutional paths, as political parties transform themselves and personalist modes of government emerge. |
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Comrades and Christians
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David I. Kertzer |
This book examines the popular bases of Communist influence in Italy, focusing on the struggle between the Catholic Church and the Communist Party for the allegiance of the Italian people. The author… |
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Fighting the Mafia and Renewing Sicilian Culture
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Leoluca Orlando |
"Growing up in an aristocratic Palermo family that seems almost to have stepped from the pages of The Leopard, Leoluca Orlando came of age at the exact moment that a new and particularly vicious Mafi… |
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Italian Anarchism, 1864–1892
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Nunzio Pernicone |
From the First International to the 1872 Anti-Authoritarian International, from government suppression and anarchist insurrection to Errico Malatesta’s prominent role in resurrecting the anarchist mo… |
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April Blood
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Lauro Martines |
One of the worldʼs leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant and violent society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing narrative opens up an entire culture, reve… |
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The View from Vesuvius
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Nelson Moe |
"The vexed relationship between the two parts of Italy, often referred to as the Southern Question, has shaped that nation's political, social, and cultural life throughout the twentieth century. But… |
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