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  • The Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy

    by Derek Beales, Eugenio F. Biagini ...
    This book introduces the reader to the relationship between the Italian national movement, achieved by the Risorgimento, and the Italian unification in 1860. These themes are discussed in detail and related to the broader European theatre. Covering the literary, cultural, religious and political history of the period, Beales and Biagini show Italy struggled towards nation state status on all ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

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    A Cultural Journey Through Myth and Reality in the Heart of the Mediterranean

    by John Keahey ...
    "Keahey's exploration of this misunderstood island offers a much-needed look at a much-maligned land."—Paul Paolicelli, author of Under the Southern SunSicily is the Mediterranean's largest and most mysterious island. Its people, for three thousand years under the thumb of one invader after another, hold tightly onto a culture so unique that they remain emotionally and culturally distinct, viewing ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • The Decameron: Collector's Edition: 3 Different Translations by John Payne, John Florio & J.M. Rigg

    by Giovanni Boccaccio ...
    Giovanni Boccaccio's 'The Decameron: Collector's Edition' showcases three different translations by John Payne, John Florio, and J.M. Rigg, presenting readers with a comprehensive view of this classic masterpiece. Set against the backdrop of the Black Death, the book is a collection of 100 stories told by ten young people who flee to the countryside to escape the plague. Boccaccio's literary style ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Man Who Closed the Asylums

    Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care

    by John Foot ...
    When the wind of the 1960s blew through the world of psychiatryIn 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded, redolent of Basaglia’s own wartime experience inside a fascist gaol. Patients were frequently restrained for long periods, and therapy was ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Hills of Chianti

    The Story of a Tuscan Winemaking Family, in Seven Bottles

    by Piero Antinori ...
    Translated by Natalie Danford ...
    The head of Italy’s "first family" of winemaking reflects on the Antinoris’ six-hundred-year legacy and a life of good food and drink in the hills of Tuscany. If you know wine, you know the name Antinori. Since 1385, this noble Florentine family has produced some of Italy’s finest wines. The Hills of Chianti tells the story of the Antinoris and the Tuscany they call home, through seven iconic ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • Sleepwalking into a New World

    The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century

    by Chris Wickham ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    "A fresh look into how communes in the mid-12th century successfully prepared Italian power structures for the cultural significance they would later have." — Publishers WeeklyAmid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government—the commune—arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Prince's Body

    by Valeria Finucci ...
    Series series I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
    Using four notorious moments in the life of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua, Valeria Finucci explores changing early modern concepts of sexuality, reproduction, beauty, and aging. She deftly marries salacious tales with historical analysis to tell a broader story of Italian Renaissance cultural adjustments and obsessions. ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Body of State

    A Nation Divided

    by Marco Baliani ...
    Translated by Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Ellen Nerenberg, Thomas Simpson ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
    Body of State offers a translation of Marco Baliani’s acclaimed dramatic monologue, Corpo di stato, concerning the 1978 kidnapping and assassination of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by the terrorist Red Brigades. Corpo di stato was commissioned by Italian state television in 1998 to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the “Moro Affair.” Baliani’s monologue, refracted through the prism of ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Risorgimento Revisited

    Nationalism and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Italy

    Edited by S. Patriarca, L. Riall ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Bringing together the work of a ground-breaking group of scholars working on the Italian Risorgimento to consider how modern Italian national identity was first conceived and constructed politically, the book makes a timely contribution to current discussions about the role of patriotism and the nature of nationalism in present-day Italy. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean

    by Louise Steel ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Archaeology
    The importance of cultural contacts in the East Mediterranean has long been recognized and is the focus of ongoing international research. Fieldwork in the Aegean, Egypt, Cyprus, and the Levant continues to add to our understanding of the nature of this contact and its social and economic significance, particularly to the cultures of the Aegean. Despite sophisticated discussion of the ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Italy and Tito’s Yugoslavia in the Age of International Détente

    Edited by Massimo Bucarelli, Luca Micheletta, Luciano Monzali, Luca Riccardi ...
    Series Book 38 - Enjeux internationaux / International Issues
    World War II and East-West confrontation redefined borders between Italy and Yugoslavia, reshaped national frontiers and adversely affected political relations. As a result, major quarrels and disputes arose over territorial claims, demarcation of State boundaries, expulsion of national minorities, and diverging visions on international and domestic politics. It was only in the 1960s and 1970s, ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • The Popes and the Church of Rome in Late Antiquity

    by John Moorhead ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ancient History
    In the past few decades there has been an explosion of interest in the period of late antiquity. Rather than being viewed within a paradigm of the fall of the Roman Empire, these centuries have come to be seen as a time of immense creativity and significance in western history. Popes and the Church of Rome in Late Antiquity places the history of the papacy in a broader context, by comparing Rome ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD