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Explores how recent findings and research provide a richer understanding of religious activities in Republican Rome and contemporary central Italic societies, including the Etruscans, during the period of the Middle and Late Republic. While much recent research has focused on the Romanization of areas outside Italy in later periods, this volume investigates religious aspects of the Romanization of the Italian peninsula itself. The essays strive to integrate literary. . . More >>

Religion in Republican Italy

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Delightful guide to the delicious mom-and-pop cafes in Northern Italy. (1995). . . More >>

Northern Italy: A Taste of Trattoria

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Athens dominates textbook accounts of ancient Greece. But was it, for the Greeks themselves, a model city-state or a creative, even a corrupt, departure from the model? Or was there a model? This book reveals Epizephyrian Locri–a Greek colony on the Adriatic coast of Italy–as a third way in Greek culture, neither Athens nor Sparta. Drawing on a wide range of literary and archaeological evidence, James Redfield offers a fascinating account of this poorly understood. . . More >>

The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy

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The north and south of Italy are virtually different countries. In parts of the north you might overhear English or German as easily as Italian, but the south is an exotic and often empty land, of a kind rare in Europe now. Yet the southern sea, beaches and landscape are often so beautiful one is amazed not to have seen them pictured everywhere, and new roads and hotels have now removed what were once the drawbacks of travel beyond Naples. Puglia (the heel of Italy). . . More >>

South Italy: A Traveller’s Guide

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Starting with a new understanding of what Romantic-era literature is—and who wrote it—the essays here reassess British Romanticism in light of Dante, Ariosto, Tasso, Alfieri, and contemporary Italian figures such as Paganini and the improvvisatore Tommaso Sgricci. The British absorption of Italian literature and culture was mediated by authors residing in Florence, Naples, Pisa, and Rome, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Hunt, Byron, the Shelleys, and Hemans. Pr. . . More >>

Dante and Italy in British Romanticism

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Karen Brown Italy Inns & Itineraries“A Pioneer and still leader in the category of high-quality small inns and bed and breakfasts. “ — Gourmet
“Books to dream over, but also to use. “ — Washington Post

Completely updated every year, Karen Brown Guides point you to the most charming inns and B&Bs in Europe and the USA.

Tons of reviews and easy-to-follow ititneraries as well as lively, personal descript. . . More >>

Karen Brown’s Italy: Charming Inns & Itineraries 2000

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“Alice Vollenweider’s ‘Culinary Journey’ through Italy fuses anecdotes with recipes, a winning combination. “—Times Literary SupplementAlice Vollenweider’s Tasting Italy is at once a travelogue, a cookbook, and a literary guide. She shares with us her passion for Italian cuisine, traveling the length and breadth of the country to find the most mouthwatering local dishes and delicacies. All of Italy’s regions are introduced by their signature dishes, and the book is. . . More >>

Tasting Italy: A Culinary Journey

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This twelve-volume series for the general reader reproduces works of art representing the resources of all eighteen curatorial departments of the Museum. . . . More >>

The Renaissance in Italy and Spain

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Nicolas Belfrage concludes his two-volume tour of Italian wine with a look at the outstanding varieties from Tuscany to the south.

In Barolo to Valpolicella, Nicolas Belfrage demystified northern Italian viticulture, discussing dozens of wines ranging from the highest-quality vintages to affordable selections that can be enjoyed every day. Now, with Brunello to Zibibbo, the second of his two-volume survey of Italian wine, Belfrage considers the wines from Tus. . . More >>

Brunello to Zibibbo: The Wines of Tuscany, Central and Southern Italy

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Our lives are Swiss,Emily Dickinson wrote in 1859, So still-so cool. But over the Alps, Italy stands the other side. For Dickinson, as for many other writers and artists, Italy has been the land of light, a seductive source of invention, enchantment, and freedom. So it was for Helen Barolini, who, as a student in Rome after World War II, wrote her first poetry and gave birth to her own creative life, reinvigorating her mother tongue. In this book, Barolini celebrates . . . More >>

Their Other Side: Six American Women and the Lure of Italy