Italy category: 3604 books

A jubilant celebration of Italy’s outsize impact on culture, from literature to art, music to movies, that “masterfully examines the multitude of reasons why so many people fall in love with Italy and the Italian lifestyle” (Forbes) Can you imagine painting without Leonardo, opera without...

The Rough Guide Snapshot to the Italian Riveria is the ultimate travel guide to this picturesque coastal region in the northwest of Italy. It leads you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from pottering from village to village...

The Rough Guide Snapshot to Piemonte & Valle d'Aosta is the ultimate travel guide to this mountainous region of Italy. It leads you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from Turin's dazzling array of museums to the Alpine valleys...

Located in the southeastern region of Italy, Puglia is an emerging and popular tourist destination in Italy. Puglia forms the ‘heel’ of the famous ‘boot’ of Italy. The region has been frequented by tourists for decades as it is a port of call for those visiting Greece and the Albanian coast....

With its treasure-filled ancient sites, Renaissance masterpieces, stunning countryside and some of the best cuisine in the world, Italy impresses at every turn. Be inspired to visit with our new Insight Guide Italy, a comprehensive full-colour guide to this glamourous country. Inside Insight...

From fantastic Florence and the picture-perfect Tuscan countryside, to the grandeur of Rome, and the elegance of Venice, Italy has much to tempt the visitor. Berlitz Pocket Guide Italy is a concise, full-colour travel guide that combines lively text with vivid photography to highlight the best that...

"Lucid, evocative and richly detailed."—Jay Parini, author of The Apprentice Lover Both the Romans and the Greeks were attracted to the dramatically beautiful coasts and fertile plains of the region later known as "The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies." In fact, all myriad...

The Rough Guide Snapshot to Friuli-Venezia Giulia is the ultimate travel guide to this wildly varied part of Italy. It leads you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from Trieste's spectacular Neoclassical squares to scenic walks...

Switzerland and Italy are two of the most visited countries in the world. Grab this value for money book and start planning your dream vacation. This book gives a comprehensive overview of what these beautiful countries offer to the world. Verdant countryside, beautiful mountains, clear...

Romancing Through Italy is an intimate cultural journey that reveals not just the places, but the people and mysteries of an ancient land. In these true stories, discover the humor, beauty, heroes, friends, and misadventures of traveling through Italy. Emperors and cave-dwellers, elderly goat-herds...

Charles Dickenss Pictures from Italy can be considered as a guide for nineteenth-century travelers of Italy, or travelogue, as it provides narrative pictures of the different corners and aspects of the country. It was in 1844 that the Victorian novelist visited the most picturesque of Italian cities...

Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy explores the new directions being taken in the study of sex and gender in Italy from 1300 to 1700 and highlights the impact that recent scholarship has had in revealing innovative ways of approaching this subject. In this interdisciplinary volume,...

The Lombards, also referred to as Longobards, were a Germanic tribe of Scandinavian origin. By the 5th century the Lombards settled in the valley of the Danube where they subdued the Germanic Heruls and the Gepids. From the Danube region they conquered the Byzantine Italy in 568 under the leadership...

This edited collection offers a new approach to the study of Italy’s foreign policy from the 1960s to the end of the Cold War, highlighting its complex and sometimes ambiguous goals, due to the intricacies of its internal system and delicate position in the fault line of the East-West and North-South...