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From Dante to Da Vinci, from Boccaccio to Brunelleschi, from the Romans to Roberto Rossellini, Italy has enriched the way we live. In these fascinating and information-packed essays, Sprezzatura offers an irresistible anatomy of Italian know-how, as expressed through its greatest cultural achievements.
4) The Italians
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How can a nation that spawned the Renaissance have produced the Mafia? How could people concerned with bella figura (keeping up appearances) have elected Silvio Berlusconi as their leader, not once, but three times? Sublime and maddening, fascinating yet baffling, Italy is a country of seemingly unsolvable riddles. John Hooper's entertaining and perceptive new book is the ideal companion for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the...
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"After Margherita's father steals parsley from the walled garden of the courtesan Selena Leonelli, he is threatened with having both hands cut off, unless he and his wife relinquish their precious little girl. Selena is the famous red-haired muse of the artist Tiziano, first painted by him in 1512 and still inspiring him at the time of his death. She is at the center of Renaissance life in Venice, a world of beauty and danger, seduction and betrayal,...
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An acclaimed columnist and editor for Italy's largest circulation daily newspaper shares his mission to identify a core Italian identity and explore how that identity has evolved since the global pandemic.
Is there an Italian way to deal with life? From illuminating the Italians' love of poetry and decoding their innate desire to socialize to explaining the regional differences between the north and the south, Severgnini has dedicated his career...
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Much of what is known about people's everyday lives in times past comes from artifacts but also from diaries, letters, and other writings. Many important details of life during the Civil war, for instance, can be found in the diaries of women who carried on while their men were at war. In the Living History series, firsthand accounts such as these are combined with thoughtful narrative to offer a rich and vivid portrait of daily life in various times...
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World history by era volume 4
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This book presents a collection of both primary and secondary documents describing the time from the conquest of southeastern Europe by the Ottoman Empire to the domination of the world's oceans by English ships.
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In true stories as vivid as the colors in which they painted, Jim Weiss brings to life Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, Donatello, and other captivating characters. You will meet great artists and inventors who define the term "Renaissance man." You will watch fierce Pope Julius II drive out invaders while supervising the painting of the Sistine Chapel, and dine in the palace of Lorenzo de Medici, swordsman, statesman and patron of the...
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