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Christ stopped at Eboli
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Carlo Levi
'We're not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.' Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi entered a world cut off from history and the state, hedged in by custom and sorrow, without comfort or solace, where, eternally patient, the peasants lived in an age-old stillness and in the ...
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The annals of Imperial Rome
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Cornelius Tacitus
Tacitus' "Annals of Imperial Rome" recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus up to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity and vivid intensity he describes the reign of terror under the corrupt Tiberius, the great fire of Rome during the time of Nero, and the wars, poisonings, scandals, conspiracies ...
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Decline and fall of the Roman Empire
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Edward Gibbon
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A Thousand Days in Venice
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Marlena De Blasi
Expecting nothing, a divorced, middle-aged woman from Missouri vacationing in Venice whimsically accepts a date with a man named Fernando and, miraculously, finds true love. Here she recalls the details of their rapid courtship, their marriage, and the aftermath.
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Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
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Carlo Levi
Carlo Levi's timeless and moving depiction of classism and poverty in Lucania, a small Italian town where the vehemently anti-Fascist Levi was confined in 1935 as a political prisoner.
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The Republic and the Laws
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Marcus Tullius Cicero, Jonathan Powell (Editor), Niall Rudd (Translator)
'However one defines Man, the same definition applies to us all. This is sufficient proof that there is no essential difference within mankind.' (Laws l.29-30) Cicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible governement written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue following Plato. Drawing on Greek ...
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The early history of Rome
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Titus Livius Livy, Aubrey De Selincourt (Translator)
Livy (c. 59 BC AD 17) dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of history, the first five of which comprise The Early History of Rome. With stylistic brilliance, he chronicles nearly 400 years of history, from the founding of Rome (traditionally dated to 757 BC) to the Gallic invasion in 386 BC an era which witnessed the reign of ...
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The City of Falling Angels
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John Berendt
A murder in Savannah inspired John Berendt's previous book, the blockbuster bestseller MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL. This time, the location is Venice, and the 1996 inferno which destroyed Venice's beloved opera house, La Fenice, serves as the touchstone for John Berendt's quirky exploration of the city and its most colorful inhabitants ...
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On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal
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Mary Taylor Simeti
Mary Taylor Simeti went to Sicily in 1962 for a visit. She fell in love with a Sicilian, got married, and stayed for over 20 years. This is her magical account of a year in a place she came to love--its sounds, taste, colors and myths, its religious festivals, its foods and its people.
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A Venetian Affair
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Andrea Di Robilant
When the author's father found a packet of letters in the attic of the ancient family palazzo in Venice, a piece of a many-centuries-old puzzle was put in place. The letters are from a great-great-great-great-great grandfather, Andrea Memmo, to his beautiful young lover, whom he was forbidden to marry because she was not of his class. The two met ...
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Travels with a Medieval Queen
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Mary Taylor Simeti
Living in the second half of the twelfth century, Princess Constance of Hauteville was both witness and protagonist in what could be considered the most exciting period in medieval history. There had been a remarkable growth in the population and in the economy of western Europe and a consequent expansion of cities and commerce. With the support ...
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Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire
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Garry Wills
Venice during the Renaissance was a center of trade and naval power that was fueled by its own idiosyncratic approaches to rule and religion. Through a study of major works of art from the period, historian Wills examines the life of Venice in its historical setting; and he uses historical knowledge to inform his appreciation of art history. A New ...
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The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five
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Livy, T J Luce
'the fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world's mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods' Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the bridge, the saga of Coriolanus, Cincinnatus called from his farm to save the state - these and many more are stories which, immortalised by Livy in his ...
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The night battles : witchcraft & agrarian cults in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries
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Carlo Ginzburg
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Daily Life in Ancient Rome - The People and the City at the Height of the Empire
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Jerome Carcopino
Provides insight into Roman life of the second century A.D.
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Christianizing the Roman Empire: A.D. 100-400
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Professor Ramsay MacMullen
How did the early Christian church manage to win its dominant place in the Roman world? In his newest book, an eminent historian of ancient Rome examines this question from a secular-rather than an ecclesiastical-viewpoint. MacMullen's provocative conclusion is that mass conversions to Christianity were based more on the appeal of miracle or the ...
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A Concise History of Italy
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Mary K Duggan, Christopher Duggan, MD
Since its creation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity. This concise history, which covers the period from the fall of the Roman empire in the west to the present day, looks in particular at the difficulties Italy has faced during the last two centuries in forging a nation ...
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April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici
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Lauro Martines
One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant - and violent - society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing narrative opens up an entire culture, revealing the dark side of Renaissance man and politician Lorenzo de' Medici. On a Sunday, in April 1478, assassins attacked Lorenzo and his brother ...
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1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
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Gavin Menzies
The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "1421" offers a stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence about the European Renaissance, tracing its roots to the Chinese. 16-page color photo insert.
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History of Rome
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Michael Grant
From a small Iron-Age settlement on the banks of the Tiber, Rome grew to become the centre of an empire that dominated what was then known of the western world. This book recreates the evolution of that city, describing the individuals and events that made Rome a political and cultural conqueror. The book portrays not only the cynosures of the ...
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Midnight in Sicily
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Peter Robb
Much of this book is about the ties between Italian political leaders and the Mafia. One recurrent theme is the fascinating but disputable connection between rich Italian food and the mob. The author also studies the works of such writers as Lampedusa and Pasolini.
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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E Gibbon
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Seasons in Basilicata: A Year in a Southern Italian Hill Village
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David Yeadon
Inspired by Carlo Levi's powerful book CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI, about his days in the Italian province of Basilicata as a political prisoner in the '30s, David Yeadon moved to Levi's village of Aliano to write about the changes in the place. There Yeadon has an entirely different experience: his year in the mountainous and rugged Italian ...
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The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason
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Charles Freeman
The rise of Christianity in medieval Europe is also the story of the ending of a tradition of rationality and inquiry often identified with the ancient Greeks, according to Charles Freeman, who sees the ancient world as an age of reason, and of the search for truth and virtue. Freeman views the gradual spread of Christianity in the fourth and ...
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Italy: A Short History
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Harry Hearder
"Italy: A Short History" succeeds and replaces the long-established and highly successful "Short History of Italy", edited by Professors Hearder and D P Waley. It presents a clear and concise account of the principal developments in Italian history from the Ice Age to the present day, intended both for student of Italian history and culture, and ...
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