This is an historical novel set in Northern Italy at the turn of the 20th century. Zaira is a young, determined girl, seeking a new life away from her restricting peasant farming background. However…
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Drawing on both wartime discourse about women and the voices of individual women living at the Italian Front, Allison Belzer analyzes how women participated in the Great War and how it affected them…
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Mount Vesuvius has been famous ever since its eruption in 79 CE, when it destroyed and buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But less well-known is the role it played in the science and…
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In questi ultimi anni l’Italia ha vissuto una «rivoluzione silenziosa», che ha profondamente cambiato la nostra società civile. In un clima di intolleranza e volgarità crescenti, sono stati infranti…
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First published in 1995, P. Adams Sitney's Vital Crises in Italian Cinema has become a work of enduring importance in the study of Italian films produced from 1945 to 196. Examining over twenty key…
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Professor Greene, for many years consul of the United States at Rome during the early 19th century brings us a short history of the Catacombs of Rome.
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This book examines the social and cultural consequences of a war normally looked at for its role in the story of Italian unification - the convergence of French, Austrian, and Piedmont-Sardinian…
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Replica of 1906 edition by Archibald Constable & Co Ltd., London.
Editor: Philip H. Wicksteed Translator: Rose E. Selfe. Elibron Classics
. Villani’s Chronicle is a history of Florence…
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Vico and Naples is an intellectual portrait of the Neapolitan philosopher Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) that reveals the politics and motivations of one of Europe's first scientists of society…
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