1434 The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Ren…

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9780061632648

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368 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.

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945 MEN y

Berlusconi: The epic story of the billionaire who took over Italy

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9780316301992

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945.09311092 FRI b

Heaven paved with oreos

Fourteen-year-old Sarah keeps a journal of her pilgrimage to Rome with her eccentric grandmother, Z, her evolving relationship with best friend Curtis, and daily conversations with Curtis's sister and star athlete, D.J.

La bella lingua: My love affair with Italian, the world's most enchanting lan…

Follows the author's quest to learn Italian over twenty-five years and her study of the ties between the language and Italy's culture, literature, history, and food.

A season with Verona: Travels around Italy in search of illusion, national ch…

Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states? This is a highly personal account of one man's relationship with a country, its people and its national sport. A book that combines the pleasures of travel writing with a profound analysis of one country's mad, mad way of keeping itself entertained.

Daughter of Venice

Venice, Italy 1592 - Donata Mocenigo daughter of the city's noble families, leads a life of wealthy privilege constrained by the strict rules of etiquette a young noblewoman must observe - So Donata comes up with a daring plan to escape the palazzo and explore Venice.

Playing for pizza

'Playing for Pizza' is a novel about a fallen American football star who can no longer get work in the National Football League and whose agent, as a last resort, signs a deal for him to play for the Parma Panthers, in Parma, Italy. The quarterbacks move to a small city in a foreign land which leads to a series of cultural misadventures.

The name of the rose

In 1327, Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Bakersville arrives to investigate. His delicate mission is overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths that take place in the same number of days, and Brother William must turn detective to sort things out.

Galileo: The genius who charted the universe

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9781426302954

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National Geography World History Biographies

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520.92 STE g

Renaissance

Betrayed by the ruling families of Italy, Ezio vows to exact his revenge and restore his family's honor by using the skills he has learned from such great minds as Da Vinci and Macchiavelli to become a righteous assassin.

A new Roman Empire?: Mussolini's Italy, 1922-1945

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978 1 4085 0312 6

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TR 945.091 NEW n

Leonardo Da Vinci : the genius who defined the Renaissance

OverviewrnThis work is an attractive and friendly resource for students... The strengths of this biography are its attractive illustrations

Pompeii--buried alive!

A simple retelling of the fateful days in 79 A.D. when Mt. Vesuvius erupted and the people in the ancient town of Pompeii perished.