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  • Blood Brotherhoods

    The Rise of the Italian Mafias

    by John Dickie ...
    BLOOD BROTHERHOODS is the enthralling new history of Italian organised crime, by the author of the international bestseller COSA NOSTRA.The Sicilian mafia, or Cosa Nostra, is far from being Italy's only dangerous criminal fraternity. The south of the country hosts two other major mafias: the camorra, from Naples and its hinterland; and the 'ndrangheta, the mafia from the poor and isolated region ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Novelle Rusticane - Little Novels of Sicily

    Bilingual parallel text - Bilingue con testo inglese a fronte: Italian - English / Italiano - Inglese

    Series series Kentauron Dual Language Easy Reader
    *** Italiano (for English scroll down) ***Edizione Bilingue (con testo inglese a fronte) specifica per eBookSe sei interessato ad imparare o migliorare il tuo inglese o il tuo italiano, questa edizione contiene una delle più fedeli traduzioni di questo capolavoro. Una versione Inglese-Italiano con paragrafo a fronte facile da leggere.* Sui dispositivi più recenti e su alcune app per tablet e ... Read more

    $0.92 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis

    From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Monuments Men: "An astonishing account of a little-known American effort to save Italy's…art during World War II." —Tom BrokawWhen Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

  • The Italians

    by John Hooper ...
    'Hooper has written a fascinating, affectionate and well-researched study that delivers the tantalising flavour of a country as hot, cold, bitter and sweet as an affogato' The Telegraph'This portrait of a nation is required reading for anyone heading to a Tuscan villa or Puglian beach this summer' Financial TimesSublime and maddening, fascinating yet baffling, Italy is a country of endless paradox ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • The Decameron: The Original English Translation by John Florio

    Translated by John Florio ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: "The Decameron: The Original English Translation by John Florio" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.John Florio 's translation of The Decameron was originally published in London in 1620.The Decameron was written by Giovanni Boccaccio (probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353). Comprised of 100 novellas told by ten men ... Read more

    $0.99 AUD

  • Merchants in the Temple

    Inside Pope Francis's Secret Battle Against Corruption in the Vatican

    From a bestselling author with unprecedented access to Pope Francis, an investigative look at the recent financial scandals at the highest levels of the VaticanA veritable war is waging in the Church: on one side, there is Pope Francis’s strong message for one church of the poor and all; on the other, there is the old Curia with its endless enemies, and the old and new lobbies struggling to ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Gladius

    Living, Fighting and Dying in the Roman Army

    The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine the ancient world produced. The Roman Empire depended on soldiers not just to win its wars, defend its frontiers and control the seas but also to act as the engine of the state. Roman legionaries and auxiliaries came from across the Roman world and beyond. They served as tax collectors, policemen, surveyors, civil engineers and, if they survived, in ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Italians

    by Luigi Barzini ...
    The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron – and millions of tourists ever since – in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots as crisp, frank and fearless as Luigi Barzini's. Cutting through the familiar clichés, he instructs us with a cascade of anecdotes and provides a ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • The History of Rome

    by William Smith ...
    Series Book 2 - AUK Classics
    This detailed history of Rome covers from the earliest times (including the foundation of the city) to the establishment of the Empire, and has been specially formatted for today's e-book readers. Featuring many illustrations, including coins, buildings, busts and more, this excellent book is one of the most well respected within the classical civilisation field. Subject matters covered include ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art

    Materials, Power and Manipulation

    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or ... Read more

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  • Out of Italy

    Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise

    Translated by Siân Reynolds ...
    From the author of Memory and the Mediterranean, a comprehensive history of the Italian city states from 1450 to 1650.In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, “Italy” exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean. Its cultural, economic, and political ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life in the Renaissance

    Here, award-winning historian Charles L. Mee Jr. explores life in Renaissance Italy - from the ascendancy of Florence and the Medicis to the genius of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Through wars and violence to festivals and feasts, Mee examines the people - artists, clergy, courtiers, merchants, scholars, and women - who fashioned the cradle for the rebirth of the Western world. ... Read more

    $14.66 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Borgias

    The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy.The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring also rose to power and fame - Lucrezia Borgia, his daughter, whose husband was famously murdered by her brother, and that brother, ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Doctrine of Fascism

    Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) needs no formal introduction, gaining global notoriety in the mid-20th century as an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party in Italy and being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism. Mussolini became the Prime Minister of Italy in 1922 and began going by the title Il Duce, adding on titles throughout the years until by the time World War II ... Read more

    $1.45 AUD

  • Sicily

    Three Thousand Years of Human History

    Tourists, armchair travelers, and historians will all delight in this fluid narrative that can be read straight through, dipped into over time, or used as a reference guide to each period in Sicily’s fascinating tale. Emigration of people from Sicily often overshadows the importance of the people who immigrated to the island through the centuries. These have included several who became Sicily’s ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

  • Niccolò Machiavelli: The Collected Works

    The Prince, The Art of War, The Discourses, The History of Florence and more

    Series series The Big Ideas
    Over the centuries Machiavelli's name has increasingly been used to describe traits of ruthless deviousness in politics - such is the potent legacy of his incredible body of work.Appointed as Secretary and Second Chancellor to the Florentine Republic in 1498, Machiavelli in many ways typifies the renaissance politician: realistic, ruthless, clear-sighted, devious and utilitarian.In his most famous ... Read more

    $3.99 AUD

  • An Italian Affair

    A gripping and emotional World War 2 novel of family, love and devastating secrets

    Love. War. Family. Betrayal.Italy, 1937. Alessandra Durante is grieving the loss of her husband when she discovers she has inherited her ancestral family seat, Villa Durante, deep in the Tuscan Hills. Longing for a new start, she moves from her home in London to Italy with her daughter Diana and sets about rebuilding her life.Under the threat of war, Alessandra's house becomes first a home and ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • The House of the Wind

    A legendary ruin. An ancient mystery. Will unveiling the past transform the future? San Francisco, 2007. Madeline Moretti is grieving for her fianc_¨. Nothing brings her joy any more, and Maddie's grandmother, a fiery Italian, sends her to Tuscany to heal. Here, Maddie is immersed in the mystery of a ruined villa. Destroyed centuries ago in a legendary storm on the Eve of St Agnes, it has been ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Venice

    A New History

    An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeurThomas Madden’s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years. Using long-buried archival material and a wealth of newly translated documents, Madden weaves a spellbinding story of a place and its people, tracing an arc from the city’s humble origins as a lagoon refuge ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD

  • Italy’s Sorrow: A Year of War 1944–45

    by James Holland ...
    Today Italy is a land of beauty and prosperity but in 1944-45 it had become a place of nightmares, a land of violence, war, and destruction. James Holland's ground-breaking account expertly documents the German advance to the stalemate of the Gothic line and a segment of Italian history that has been largely neglected.The war in Italy was the most destructive campaign in the west as the Allies and ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD

  • The Decameron: The Classic Translation of John Payne

    Translated by John Payne ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: "The Decameron: The Classic Translation of John Payne" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.John Payne's translation of The Decameron was originally published in a private printing for The Villon Society, London in 1886.Comprised of 100 novellas told by ten men and women over a ten day journey fleeing plague-infested Florence, ... Read more

    $0.99 AUD

  • City of the Soul

    A Walk in Rome

    Series series Crown Journeys
    “One lifetime is not enough for Rome,” the famous saying goes, and anyone who’s ever been there knows these words to be true. In City of the Soul, William Murray begins to show us why.Growing up in Rome and spending much of his life in the city, William Murray is an expert guide as he takes us on an intimate walking tour of some of Rome’s most glorious achievements, illuminating the history and ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD

  • Pageant Of The Popes

    by John Farrow ...
    Pageant of the Popesby John Farrow"This book contains a continuous history of the Papacy from the first century up to the mid-20th, when it was written. The original book has no chapter heads: the breakdown by century was added here. Farrow names every pope and provides extensive background on them. There are good popes, not a few bad popes, anti-popes (at one time there were three claimants to ... Read more

    $4.39 AUD

  • Ortona Street Fight

    by Mark Zuehlke ...
    Series series Rapid Reads
    December 20, 1943. Two Canadian infantry battalions and a tank regiment stand poised on the outskirts of a small Italian port town. They expect to take Ortona quickly. But the German 1st Parachute Division has other ideas. For reasons unknown, Hitler has ordered Ortona held to the last man. Houses, churches and other buildings are dynamited, clogging the streets with rubble. Germans with machine ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD