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Cover of Visual Italian
by Alfonso Borello
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 31, 2016

Welcome to Italy! Learn Italian with 50 captioned photos.If a picture is worth a thousand words, a captioned one can tell you even more. This book features more than 1,500 Italian words with word-by-word translation, plus a review with grammatical notes for each lesson. There's also a bonus chapter with tips for accelerated learning.
Cover of 真愛義大利:27個大城小鎮實用導覽書
by 吳靜雯
Language: Chinese
Release Date: September 1, 2015

窗外有藍天書中的梵希小姐說:「到義大利不是為了愛,而是來感受生活。」 義大利,絕對是個瘋狂的國家,不要以為她在歐洲,就像北歐或甚至是鄰國瑞士那樣的純淨有秩序,不過也因為的混亂與瘋狂,才會激發出那麼多令人炫目的火花。   本書由旅居義大利多年的太雅旅遊作家吳靜雯,以「文人情愫」或「達人心情」的第一人稱角度出發,引領讀者與義大利的情感連結。本書足跡幾乎遍布全義大利,從生活、美食、美學、人文角度,帶你深度認識義大利這個國家。   本書特色 ■更在地的旅遊資訊 給你更深刻的角度去認識義大利的大城小鎮。 ■身歷其境的旅遊文學 作者細膩的筆調,讓你完全跟著身歷其境,親炙感動與歡娛。 ■分區檢索導覽 分為27個城市獨立介紹,為每個城市繪製街道圖,介紹不可錯過的主題旅遊路線,再搭配城市景點、住宿推薦、內外交通等詳細說明。 ■人文知識豐富 以作者豐富的義大利文化背景為基石,書中密集設計美學、歷史、藝術家資訊與巷道消息,全方位滿足你的腦袋。   本書目錄 【5大專題】 迷戀:我說這樣的義大利 詠嘆:優雅踏進歌劇院 慢食:麥當勞與義大利美食的一場戰爭 上癮:義大利的生活=咖啡館 狂購:MADE...
Cover of Vie de Michel-Ange
by Romain Rolland
Language: French
Release Date: December 2, 2015

Vie de Michel-Ange est un livre écrit par l'écrivain français Romain Rolland (1866 - 1944).   Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale et comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mise en page...
Cover of A Journey Into Michelangelo's Rome
by Angela K Nickerson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008

From St. Peter’s Basilica to the Capitoline Hill, this unique resource-part biography, part history, and part travel guide-provides an intimate portrait of the relationship between Michelangelo and the city he restored to artistic greatness. Lavishly illustrated and richly informative, this travel...
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Vie de Michel-Ange

Vie des hommes illustres

by Romain Rolland
Language: French
Release Date: January 8, 2015

Michel-Ange, sculpteur et peintre de génie, a été toute sa vie englué dans des engagements forcés, par les papes, par les riches de ce monde. Romain Rolland prouve que cet homme, enserré dans le malheur et la tristesse, a toujours gardé un coeur pur...
Cover of The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance
by Bernhard Berenson
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013

• illustration • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS THE FLORENTINE PAINTERS OF THE RENAISSANCE INDEX TO THE WORKS OF THE PRINCIPAL FLORENTINE PAINTERS
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A Venetian Affair

A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century

by Andrea Di Robilant
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

In the waning days of Venice’s glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the city’s oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful, illegitimate daughter of a Venetian mother and British father....
Cover of Venice: A History
by John Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2019

Rarely in history has a great city arisen in a less likely place than the islands and mud flats of the Venetian lagoon. But they provided the city's founders with a refuge from the barbarians who had invaded their mainland homes. With energy and ingenuity, these displaced people created a maritime...
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The Venetians

A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova

by Paul Strathern
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013

A “useful and informative introduction” to the independent Republic of Venice—the first great economic and cultural power of the modern Western world (Booklist).   After winning the struggle for ascendency in the late 13th century, the Republic of Venice enjoyed centuries of unprecedented...
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Casanova

Actor, Lover, Priest, Spy

by Ian Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008

In Casanova, noted author Ian Kelly traces the life of Giacomo Casanova, a man whose very name is synonymous with sensuality, seduction and sexual prowess. But Casanova was more than just a great lover. A businessman, diplomat, spy, and philosopher, he authored more than twenty books, including a...
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by Andrea Di Robilant
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008

In 1787, the beautiful Lucia is married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the most powerful Venetian families. But their life as a golden couple will be suddenly transformed when Venice falls to Bonaparte. We witness Lucia's painful series of miscarriages and the pressure on her to produce an...
Cover of The Life and Times of Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012

Alexander never did what he said.Cesare never said what he did. Italian ProverbThere have been no shortage of controversial Popes who were accused by Catholics and other Christians of impropriety, but the most controversial of all was the Borgia Pope, Alexander VI. Born Rodrigo Borgia, the future Pope...
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Dante

A Life

by R. W. B. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009

An insightful biography of Florence?s famous son Acclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex development? emotional, artistic, philosophical?of this supreme poet-historian. Here we meet the boy who first encounters the mythic Beatrice, the lyric poet obsessed with love and...
Cover of DISCOURS PHILOSOPHIQUE ET POLITIQUE Sur l’emprisonnement pour dettes
by Cosimo Amidei
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2015

Extrait :  LA richesse & la pauvreté, parmi les citoyens d’un état, sont des inconvénients nécessaires de la société. Chercher à empêcher cet effet, ce serait courir risque de conduire le corps politique à la léthargie,...
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