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Campaign eBook Series

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  • Castagnaro 1387

    Hawkwood’s Great Victory

    by Kelly DeVries, Niccolò Capponi ...
    Series Book 337 - Campaign
    A highly illustrated study of the medieval Italian battle of Castagnaro, the famous English condottiere captain Sir John Hawkwood's greatest victory.The battle of Castagnaro, fought on 11 March 1387 between the Veronese and the Paduans, is one of the most famous Italian medieval conflicts in the English-speaking world. This is thanks in no small part to the exploits of the renowned English ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Campaldino 1289

    The battle that made Dante

    by Kelly DeVries, Niccolò Capponi, Paul Kime, Bounford.com ...
    Series Book 324 - Campaign
    A highly illustrated account of one of the major battles of Italy's 13th century wars, immortalized in the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri who was one of the combatants.Campaldino is one of the important battles between the Guelphs and Ghibellines - the major political factions in the city states of central and northern Italy. It heralded the rise of Florence to a dominant position over the area ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Brunelleschi's Dome

    The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence

    by Ross King ...
    Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence still retains a rare power to astonish. Yet the elegance of the building belies the tremendous labour, technical ingenuity and bitter personal strife involved in its creation. For over a century after work on the cathedral began in 1296, the proposed dome was regarded as all but ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici

    by Christopher Hibbert ...
    At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. This enthralling book charts the family’s huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence. Beginning in the early ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Florence

    The Biography of a City

    by Christopher Hibbert ...
    This book is as captivating as the city itself. Hibbert's gift is weaving political, social and art history into an elegantly readable and marvellously lively whole. The author's book on Florence will also be at once a history and a guide book and will be enhanced by splendid photographs and illustrations and line drawings which will describe all teh buildings and treasures of the city. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Tuscany

    A History

    by Alistair Moffat ...
    "S ome of the most fascinating, intriguing and, yes, brutal episodes of the region's past written in the fast-paced, involving style of an adventure novel" ( Italy Magazine, "Book of the Week").With the perfect fusion of history, art, architecture, superb natural beauty, and weather—not to mention magnificent traditions of food and drink—Tuscany has cast its spell over visitors for centuries. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Venus Fixers

    The Remarkable Story of the Allied Monuments Officers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II

    by Ilaria Dagnini Brey ...
    In 1943, while the world was convulsed by war, a few visionaries -- in the private sector and in the military -- committed to protect Europe's cultural heritage from the indiscriminate ravages of World War II.In the midst of the conflict, the Allied Forces appointed the monuments officers—a motley group of art historians, curators, architects, and artists—to ensure that the great masterworks of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • When in Rome: 2000 Years of Roman Sightseeing

    by Matthew Sturgis ...
    There is no place like Rome. Throughout its long, long history, its many changes in form and fortune, Rome has always been a tourist centre. In every age - Classical, Christian, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical, Romantic, Modern, people have flocked to see its wonders. This is the story of what Rome's visitors have looked at over the past two thousand years, the buildings, the statues, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Medici ~ Supremacy

    by Matteo Strukul ...
    Translated by Richard McKenna ...
    Series Book 2 - Masters of Florence
    Winner of the Premio Bancarella, 2017The second instalment in a prize-winning series charting the rise of the House of Medici as they become Masters of Florence and progenitors of the Renaissance.Florence, 1469.Lorenzo de' Medici is to be wed.The marriage will cement a powerful alliance for his family.But his heart belongs to another. Torn between love and power, he has become complacent. He has ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Machiavelli

    His Life and Times

    by Dr Alexander Lee ...
    'A wonderfully assured and utterly riveting biography that captures not only the much-maligned Machiavelli, but also the spirit of his time and place. A monumental achievement.' – Jessie Childs, author of God's Traitors.‘A notorious fiend’, ‘generally odious’, ‘he seems hideous, and so he is.’Thanks to the invidious reputation of his most famous work, The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli exerts a ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Mercenaries and Their Masters

    Warfare in Renaissance Italy

    by Michael Mallett, William Caferro ...
    The eminent Renaissance historian's classic study of warfare between Italian city-states between the 13th and 16th centuries.Michael Mallett's lucid account of the age of the condottieri—or mercenary captains of fortune—and of the soldiers who fought under them is set in the wider context of the Italian society of the time and of the warring city-states who employed them. Mallett presents a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Florentines

    From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Series series Italian Histories
    A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth to the Renaissance.Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something happened that transformed the entire culture of western civilization. Painting, sculpture, and architecture would all visibly change in such a striking fashion that there could be no going back on what ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD