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Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy
A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes
Written by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali

Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $35.00

In this inspiring new book, Lidia Bastianich awakens in us a new respect for food and for the people who produce it in the little-known parts of Italy that she explores. All of the recipes reflect the regions from which they spring, and in translating them to our home kitchens, Lidia... Read more >

Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy
A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes
Written by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali

Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $35.00

In this inspiring new book, Lidia Bastianich awakens in us a new respect for food and for the people who produce it in the little-known parts of Italy that she explores. All of the recipes reflect the regions from which they spring, and in translating them to our home kitchens, Lidia... Read more >

The Montefeltro Conspiracy
A Renaissance Mystery Decoded
Written by Marcello Simonetta

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $26.00

A brutal murder, a nefarious plot, a coded letter. After five hundred years, the most notorious mystery of the Renaissance is finally solved.

The Italian Renaissance is remembered as much for intrigue as it is for art, with papal politics and infighting among Italy’s many city-states providing the grist for Machiavelli’s... Read more >

The Montefeltro Conspiracy
A Renaissance Mystery Decoded
Written by Marcello Simonetta

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $26.00

A brutal murder, a nefarious plot, a coded letter. After five hundred years, the most notorious mystery of the Renaissance is finally solved.

The Italian Renaissance is remembered as much for intrigue as it is for art, with papal politics and infighting among Italy’s many city-states providing the grist for Machiavelli’s...

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Paradise of Cities
Venice in the Nineteenth Century
Written by John Julius Norwich

Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.00

The greatest living chronicler of Venetian history brings to life the city’s magical charm in a beautifully illustrated and captivating book.

John Julius Norwich, the author of the acclaimed A History of Venice, traces the transformation of Venice from a proud independent state into a dazzling dreamscape that attracted artists, writers... Read more >

Sicily
Three Thousand Years of Human History
Written by Sandra Benjamin

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $19.95

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... Read more >

Sprezzatura
50 Ways Italian Genius Shaped the World
Written by Peter D'Epiro and Mary Desmond Pinkowish

Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00

A witty, erudite celebration of fifty great Italian cultural achievements that have significantly influenced Western civilization from the authors of What Are the Seven Wonders of the World?

“Sprezzatura,” or the art of effortless mastery, was coined in 1528 by Baldassare Castiglione in The Book of the Courtier. No one has demonstrated... Read more >

A Venetian Affair
A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century
Written by Andrea Di Robilant

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00

“Some years ago, my father came home with a carton of old letters that time and humidity had compacted into wads of barely legible paper,” Andrea di Robilant tells us as he begins this spellbinding true story of love in eighteenth-century Venice. In the attic of their old family palazzo on... Read more >

Lidia's Italy
140 simple and delicious recipes from the ten places in Italy Lidia loves most
Written by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $35.00

In this exciting new book the incomparable Lidia takes us on a gastronomic journey—from Piemonte to Puglia—exploring ten different regions that have informed her cooking and helped to make her the fabulous cook that she is today. In addition, her daughter Tanya, an art historian, guides us to some of the nearby... Read more >

Cosa Nostra
Historia de la Mafia siciliana
Written by John Dickie

Format: Trade Paperback, 196 pages
On Sale: November 7, 2006
Price: $17.95

El libro de Dickie, muy documentado y de apasionante lectura, es un repaso a la historia de la mafia siciliana desde su remota fundación en el siglo XVIII hasta nuestros días. El autor, con una narración que se sigue de forma trepidante, ofrece un estudio pormenorizado de cómo aparece, cuáles fueron... Read more >

Monte Cassino
The Hardest Fought Battle of World War II
Written by Matthew Parker

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $15.95

Monte Cassino is the true story of one of the bitterest and bloodiest of the Allied struggles against the Nazi army. Long neglected by historians, the horrific conflict saw over 350,000 casualties, while the worst winter in Italian memory and official incompetence and backbiting only worsened the carnage and turmoil.

Combining... Read more >

A Venetian Affair
A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century
Written by Andrea Di Robilant

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $15.00

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. Because of their dramatically different... Read more >

Paradise of Cities
Venice in the Nineteenth Century
Written by John Julius Norwich

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $16.00

John Julius Norwich’s A History of Venice has been dubbed “indispensable” by none other than Jan Morris. Now, in his second book on the city once known as La Serenissima, Norwich advances the story in this elegant chronicle of a hundred years of Venice’s highs and lows, from its ignominious capture... Read more >

Monte Cassino
The Hardest-Fought Battle of World War II
Written by Matthew Parker

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 1, 2004
Price: $15.95

A gripping chronicle of the greatest and most terrible confrontation between Allied forces and the Nazi army, based on groundbreaking archival research and the compelling first-person accounts of four hundred survivors on both sides of the conflict.

Before D-Day there was Monte Cassino, the desperate six-month struggle in the mountains of... Read more >

The Moro Affair

Written by Leonardo Sciascia
Introduction by Peter Robb

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: May 31, 2004
Price: $12.95

On March 16, 1978 Aldo Moro, a former Prime Minister of Italy, was ambushed in Rome. Within three minutes the gang killed his escort and bundled Moro into one of three getaway cars. An hour later the terrorist group the Red Brigades announced that Moro was in their hands; on March... Read more >

Sprezzatura
50 Ways Italian Genius Shaped the World
Written by Peter D'Epiro and Mary Desmond Pinkowish

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2001
Price: $15.00

A witty, erudite celebration of fifty great Italian cultural achievements that have significantly influenced Western civilization from the authors of What Are the Seven Wonders of the World?

“Sprezzatura,” or the art of effortless mastery, was coined in 1528 by Baldassare Castiglione in The Book of the Courtier. No one has demonstrated... Read more >

Women of the Shadows
Wives and Mothers of Southern Italy
Written by Ann Cornelisen

Format: Trade Paperback, 220 pages
On Sale: August 2, 2001
Price: $15.00

WITH HAUNTING PHOTOGRAPHS and piercing descriptions, Women of the Shadows depicts the secluded women of southern Italy and their passionate, painful, heartrending existence. Cornelisen, who lived among these women in the mountainous villages of Lucania after World War II, reveals their struggles during a time when most of their men had... Read more >

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
(A Modern Library E-Book)
Written by Jacob Burckhardt

Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $15.95

Jacob Burckhardt was born in 1818 in Basel, Switzerland. He studied history at the University of Berlin and taught art history and the Italian Renaissance in Berlin and Basel. His essay, as he called The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, was first published in 1860. Rich in its detailed account... Read more >