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  • Communicating Identity in Italic Iron Age Communities

    Edited by Margarita Gleba, Helle W. Horsnaes ...
    Recent archaeological work has shown that South Italy was densely occupied at least from the Late Bronze Age, with a marked process of the development of proto-urban centres, accompanied by important technological transformations. The archaeological exploration of indigenous South Italy is a relatively recent phenomenon, thanks to the bias towards the study of Greek colonies. Therefore an ... Read more

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  • The Tigress of Forlì

    Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici

    by Elizabeth Lev ...
    The astonishing life of an Italian Renaissance noblewoman who was a wife, mother, leader, and warrior fierce enough to make Machiavelli wince.A strategist to match Machiavelli; a warrior who stood toe to toe with the Borgias; a wife whose three marriages would end in bloodshed and heartbreak; and a mother determined to maintain her family's honor, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici was a true ... Read more

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  • Vital Crises in Italian Cinema

    Iconography, Stylistics, Politics

    by P. Adams Sitney ...
    Examining the landmark works that ushered in Italy's golden age of cinema, P. Adams Sitney provides a stylish, historically rich survey of the epochal films made by Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and others in the years after World War II. Remarking on the period in 1957, Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote that its films reflected a "vital ... Read more

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  • The Bicycle Runner

    A Memoir of Love, Loyalty, and the Italian Resistance

    by G. Franco Romagnoli ...
    G. Franco Romagnoli's The Bicycle Runner is an irresistible memoir of coming of age, friendship, love, and war during the perils of Fascist Italy.Like all boys growing up in Rome during the 1930s and 1940s, the author was expected to join the Balilla—Italy's fascist Youth Organization. With political divisions running deep in the families within his palazzo, he and his motley group of friends were ... Read more

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  • Rome Measured and Imagined

    Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City

    by Jessica Maier ...
    At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a "crumbling city" populated by "broken ruins" into a prosperous Christian capital. Scholars, artists, architects, and engineers fascinated by Rome were spurred to develop new graphic modes for depicting the city—and the genre known as the city portrait ... Read more

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  • The Beginning of Futility

    Diplomatic, Political, Military and Naval Events on the Austro-Italian Front in the First World War 1914-1917 Volume I

    by Gaetano V. Cavallaro ...
    Since Picketts failed charge at Gettysburg, the frontal infantry assault had been known as obsolete. Nevertheless fifty years later, Allied military leaders in the Great War persisted in using it as a military tactic. Italian military leaders were no exception not even accepting the deadly effect of machine guns or quick-firing artillery. The Battles of the Isonzo on the Austro-Italian Front have ... Read more

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  • The New Christians of Spanish Naples 1528-1671

    A Fragile Elite

    by P. Mazur ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This study reveals the more complex reality of Early Modern Naples than what has commonly been represented, in which royal representatives in the city came to depend on the assistance of a series of merchants, financiers, and bureaucrats who shared a common identity as conversos, descendants of converted Jews. ... Read more

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  • Machiavelli, Leonardo, and the Science of Power

    by Roger D. Masters ...
    Series series Frank M. Covey, Jr., Loyola Lectures in Political Analysis
    In recent years, Niccolò Machiavelli's works have been viewed primarily with historical interest as analysis of the tactics used by immoral political officials. Roger D. Masters, a leading expert in the relationship between modern natural sciences and politics, argues boldly in this book that Machiavelli should be reconsidered as a major philosopher whose thought makes the wisdom of antiquity ... Read more

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  • Routledge Revivals: Medieval Italy (2004)

    An Encyclopedia - Volume II

    Edited by Christopher Kleinhenz ...
    First published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the late Roman empire to the end of the fourteenth century. It presents in two volumes articles on a wide range of topics including history, literature, art, music, urban development, commerce and economics, social and political institutions, religion and ... Read more

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  • Love, Self-Deceit and Money

    Commerce and Morality in the Early Neapolitan Enlightenment

    by Koen Stapelbroek ...
    "Love drives and gives life to the commerce of mankind." Thus, the sixteen year old Ferdinando Galiani (1728-1787) presented his project to understand the sociable nature of man. This observation, a reflection of his own position on the relation between trade and virtue, hinted at what the mature works of Galiani, one of the most noteworthy economists and wits in eighteenth-century Italy, would ... Read more

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  • The Merchant of Prato's Wife

    Margherita Datini and Her World, 1360-1423

    by Ann Morton Crabb ...
    Although the fourteenth-century Italian merchant Francesco Datini has received attention from business historians, there has previously been no full study of his wife, Margherita Datini. Drawing on a sizable trove of Margherita’s correspondence held in the Archivio di Stato di Prato, including hundreds of letters she exchanged with Francesco, Ann Crabb investigates the social and economic ... Read more

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  • Spanish-Italian Relations and the Influence of the Major Powers, 1943-1957

    by Palgrave Macmillan ...
    Spanish-Italian Relations and the Influence of the Major Powers examines complex relations between Spain and Italy, beginning in 1943 and continuing until 1957, contending that the relationship cannot be examined in isolation and must be understood in its broader context. ... Read more

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