Italy category: 3604 books

A “contagiously exuberant” celebration of Italian food, culture, and history that “will be the companion of visitors for years to come” (The Washington Post Book World).   In an absorbing journey down the Italian peninsula, essayist, journalist, and fiction writer Barbara Grizzuti Harrison,...

Inizialmente progettato da manzoni come parte del quinto capitolo del quarto tomo dell’opera “Fermo e Lucia” (prima redazione de “I promessi sposi”), venne in realtà pubblicato nel 1840 come saggio autonomo.La vicenda si svolge nel 1630 a Milano durante durante il periodo della peste. Narra...

“Maggio’s tales of Sicily’s hidden villages reveal her own deep love and gentle understanding of her ancestors’ homeland” (The Boston Globe**).** In this sparkling book, Theresa Maggio takes us on a journey in search of Sicily’s most remote and least explored mountain towns. Using...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The story of Rome is the most splendid romance in all history. A few shepherds tend their flocks among volcanic hills, listening by day and night to the awful warnings of the subterranean voice, – born in danger,...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. 'Arenula' – 'fine sand' – 'Renula,' 'Regola' – such is the derivation of the name of the Seventh Region, which was bounded on one side by the sandy bank of the Tiber from Ponte Sisto to the island of Saint...

As Ida Susser writes in reference to Belmonte's Broken Fountain, "good ethnographies have long lives." This classic of urban anthropology, one of the most acclaimed ethnographies of recent years, offers vivid, literary descriptions of Fontana del Re, an impoverished Neapolitan neighborhood....

From the 100-part Penguin Great Ideas series comes an excerpt from the famous Book of the Courtier.   In his witty and perceptive discourses on the ideal virtues of a Renaissance courtier, Baldesar Castiglione sets out values that continue to offer illumination in questions of leadership and government—espousing...

The term 'medieval martial arts' conjures images of armour-clad knights wielding sword, lance and axe. While the image is correct, at the foundation of knightly combat was a sophisticated form of close quarter combat, instantly recognizable to students of classical Asian arts such as jujutsu or practitioners...

Our Law and its philosophy have been conceived for an economic world where the main source of wealth was material. Although this world no longer exists, its laws are still alive and slow down the development of modern economies. Patent law strikingly shows this fact. Invented mainly during the industrial...

Si gioca sul filo delle settimane il destino dell'Europa, nell'estasi unanime delle folle che accompagna i soldati verso una guerra sentita come giusta e dovuta. L'Italia no, si divide e si lacera per mesi sul da farsi. Tengono banco gli interventisti; il fronte del no, anche se più numeroso, è...

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In Florentine Histories Machiavelli wrote about his native city, which he loved with a passion -- more than his soul, he said -- and by which he was exasperated. He was not just the famously cold, ironic analyst of ruthless power politics, evident in much of his most famous work, The Prince; he had a...

A.H. Allcroft's A History of Sicily is one of the most comprehensive works on the ancient history of Sicily, making it a must read for anyone interested in antiquity.

Saunterings by the American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain,Charles Dudley Warner.Warner was born of Puritan descent in Plainfield, Massachusetts. From the ages of six to fourteen he lived in Charlemont, Massachusetts, the scene of the experiences pictured in his study of childhood, Being...