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A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance
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Guido Ruggiero |
This volume brings together some of the most exciting renaissance scholars to suggest new ways of thinking about the period and to set a new series of agendas for Renaissance scholarship.Overturns th… |
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Gender, sexuality, and syphilis in early modern Venice
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Laura J. McGough |
This provocative book questions the assumption that syphilis (the 'French disease') became widespread in Venice because of its legendary courtesans. Using new evidence, Laura McGough reconstructs the… |
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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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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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The Italians
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Bruno Barbey |
"In the early 1960s, internationally acclaimed photographer Bruno Barbey crisscrossed Italy from north to south attempting to capture the spirit of the nation. Unpublished until now, these images app… |
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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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Metropolis and Hinterland
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Neville Morley |
xi, 211 p. : 24 cm |
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Women of the Shadows
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Ann Cornelisen |
From the author of the acclaimed Torregreca comes this evocation of the women of southern Italy--that land below Naples etched in blazing sunlight and bitter black shadows--and the passionate, painfu… |
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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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