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200,000 Heroes: Italian Partisans and the American OSS in WWII by: Weckstein, Leon

200,000 Heroes: Italian Partisans and the American OSS in WWII
by: Weckstein, Leon

Softcover. Ashland OR, Hellgate Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 230 pages, b&w illustrations. Italy, July 1944. The unendurable insult to Italy's inherently genial way of life brought about by Hitler's storm-troopers and Mussolini's Fascist toadies was both taking its toll on the people of Italy and creating a fledgling underground Resistance movement whose heroic ranks would soon swell to nearly 200,000 brave men and women. Author Leon Weckstein was there--an American GI in combat fighting with and befriending the Partisans. Here is the story, as told through eyewitness accounts and carefully researched historical archives, of the Italian Partisans and their American OSS allies' battle to destroy the Nazi-Fascist regime and expel the culprits from their beloved Italy. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 397848

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A Florentine Diary, from 1450 to 1516: Continued by an Anonymous Writer Till 1542 with Notes by Iodoco Del Badiaby: Landucci, Luca

A Florentine Diary, from 1450 to 1516: Continued by an Anonymous Writer Till 1542 with Notes by Iodoco Del Badia
by: Landucci, Luca

Hardcover. NY, Arno Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. A reprint of the 1927 edition published by J.M. Dent in London. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 374173

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Art and Society in Italy 1350-1500by: Welch, Evelyn

Art and Society in Italy 1350-1500
by: Welch, Evelyn

Softcover. Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition, clean inside and out. Binding tight.

Record # 30991

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Bartolomeo Scala: 1430-1497 Chancellor of Florence - The Humanist As Bureaucrat by: Brown, Alison

Bartolomeo Scala: 1430-1497 Chancellor of Florence - The Humanist As Bureaucrat
by: Brown, Alison

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 366 pages. Though Bartolomeo Scala has long intrigued historians, he is a figure whose importance has only recently been appreciated. In Alison Brown's biography Scala emerges as a man of more ability and character than anyone has imagined him to be. We begin to understand why he was employed as chancellor for the almost unrivaled period of thirty-two years. Ms. Brown's study is not only the first extensive treatment of Scala's life but also a significant contribution to our knowledge of Italian Renaissance history and of the contrast between theory and practice in Medicean government. Blank bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386799

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Bulgariby: Mascetti, Daniela & Amanda Triossi

Bulgari
by: Mascetti, Daniela & Amanda Triossi

Hardcover. Italy, Leonardo Arte Srl , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket in slipcase. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to slipcase edges. Color illustrations throughout. A book about Italy's greatest jeweler.

Record # 353578

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Caravaggioby: Catherine Puglisi

Caravaggio
by: Catherine Puglisi

Softcover. NY, Phaidon, 1st pbk, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 9 x 10". 448 pages. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was one of the most innovative painters of his time, and one of the most momentous artists of any era. Rescued from neglect, he has become a cultural icon in the late twentieth century, not only for his art but also because of his violent and tragic life. Catherine Puglisi's highly praised monograph, supersedes all previous studies of the artist by far. Making full use of the latest research and a series of dramatic recent discoveries, she has produced a concise, clear-headed and comprehensive work of scholarship that also provides a moving biography of the artist and an incisive deconstruction of the genius with which he absorbed and transformed the artistic tradition of his time. Clean copy.

Record # 381888

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Carnet Di Balloby: Rossi, Elisa Gribaudi

Carnet Di Ballo
by: Rossi, Elisa Gribaudi

Softcover. Milano, Longanesi & Co., 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 94 pages. Text in Italian. Light edgewear to wrappers, faint foxing to edges and end papers.

Record # 350432

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Creating a World on Paper: Harry Fenn's Career in Artby: Rainey, Sue

Creating a World on Paper: Harry Fenn's Career in Art
by: Rainey, Sue

Hardcover. Boston, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 516 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. This volume documents Fenn's prolific career from the 1860s until his death in 1911. Sue Rainey also recounts his adventurous sketching trips in the western United States, Europe, and the Middle East, which enhanced his reputation for depicting far-flung places at a time when the nation was taking a more prominent role on the world stage.

Record # 387950

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Desperate Inscriptions: Graffiti from the Nazi Prison in Rome 1943-1944by: Pugliese, Stanislao G.

Desperate Inscriptions: Graffiti from the Nazi Prison in Rome 1943-1944
by: Pugliese, Stanislao G.

Softcover. Boca Raton FL, Bordighera Press , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, b&w illustrations. Tucked away on Via Tasso in a middle-class district in the Eternal City--a stone's throw from the Basilica of St. John in Lateran--the former prison is now the Museo Storico della Liberazione di Roma, commemorating the liberation of Rome by Resistance fighters and Allied troops in June 1944. Within, anti-fascist partisans scrawled graffiti full of pathos and the romantic idealism that so permeated the Italian Resistance. A visitor today can still read the desperate inscriptions, collected in this volume along with recollections by inmates and narratives concerning the Via Tasso. Pugliese's thoughtful narrative, accompanied by black-and-white photos by Lianna Miuccio, documents the lives of such antifascist prisoners as Arrigo Paladini, who wrote on the wall as he was dying, "There is nothing that can give the joy of a beautiful death as the consciousness of having served the country until the last breath of life." This book examines the inscriptions on the walls, translates them, shows Miuccio's stark photos of them, and gives a historical context, timeline, and survivor and family interviews. Clean copy. Scarce.

Record # 398076

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Donatello among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italyby: Lazzaro, Claudia

Donatello among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy
by: Lazzaro, Claudia

Softcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 304 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This ambitious collection treating the Italian Fascists appropriation of the past for political purposes focuses on the role of the visual in the aim of fusing the past and the modern world in Mussolini"s Italy. With contributions by art historians.

Record # 350300

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Echoes of Old Florence: Her Palaces and those who have lived in themby: Leader, Scott

Echoes of Old Florence: Her Palaces and those who have lived in them
by: Leader, Scott

Hardcover. Florence, Flor & Findel, 3rd, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 254 pages. Tipped in illustrations and photographs. Age discoloration to pages, beveled brown leather over covers with three bands on spine continued on front and back cover ending in flor de lis decoration. Rubbing all edges. front and rear hinge cracked.

Record # 408290

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Firenze e gli antichi Paesi Bassi 1430-1530. dialoghi tra artisti: da Jan Van Eyck a Ghirlandaio, da Memling a Raffaelloby: Meijer, Bert W.

Firenze e gli antichi Paesi Bassi 1430-1530. dialoghi tra artisti: da Jan Van Eyck a Ghirlandaio, da Memling a Raffaello
by: Meijer, Bert W.

Firenze IT, Sillabe, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 269 pages in color and b&w. ITALIAN TEXT. Light bump to top outer corner, otherwise bright and clean.

Record # 384489

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First Lady of the Renaissance - A Biography of Isabella d'Esteby: Meyer, Edith Patterson

First Lady of the Renaissance - A Biography of Isabella d'Este
by: Meyer, Edith Patterson

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 272 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth cover with gilt titles. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with tears, creasing along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 614452

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Francesco II Gonzaga: The soldier-prince as patronby: Bourne, Molly

Francesco II Gonzaga: The soldier-prince as patron
by: Bourne, Molly

Softcover. Rome, Bulzoni Editore, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 700 pages, Color plates in rear section. Very good condition. Card wraps. Appendices appear to have original text from letters in Italian. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 379511

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Gabriele d'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of Warby: Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Gabriele d'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War
by: Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 589 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom text block. Tight copy. Light rubbing to dust jacket.

Record # 387336

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Galileo's Florentine Residencesby: Bonelli, Maria Luisa Righini, William R. Shea

Galileo's Florentine Residences
by: Bonelli, Maria Luisa Righini, William R. Shea

Softcover. Italy, Instituto E Museo Di Storia Della Scienza, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 54 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Foxing on edges and preliminary/back pages. Does not affect text or illustrations. Wrapper in good condition.

Record # 30987

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Garibaldi by: Ridley, Jasper

Garibaldi
by: Ridley, Jasper

Softcover. London, Phoenix Press, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 718 pages. One of history's greatest reformers, Garibaldi won his first battle against Aegean Pirates, his last battle against German Dragoons. He went to jail in Russia and led Brazilian rebels in the field. He was twice an admiral and seven times a general, a high government official in at least five countries, became Commander in Chief of the Uruguayan Army, Dictator of Sicily and Freeman of the City of London.

Record # 398106

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George Inness in Italyby: Mitchell, Mark D.

George Inness in Italy
by: Mitchell, Mark D.

Softcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 60 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. A canonical figure in American painting, George Inness (1825-1894) is widely admired as the pioneer of the landscape aesthetic known as Tonalism, which is distinguished by soft focus and diaphanous layers of paint. This is the first book about the artist's two Italian sojourns (1851-52 and 1870-74) and their formative impact on his work. Italy--its art and its landscape--offered Inness a font of inspiration as he developed his unique artistic vision. This handsome book presents ten oil paintings surveying Inness's Italian subjects dating from 1850 to 1879, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art's recently restored Twilight on the Campagna, which has not been on view since 1952. This was the first of Inness's works completed in Italy, and its reemergence offers a unique opportunity to reconsider the career of a leading American artist.

Record # 350381

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GIOVANNI DI PAOLO. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin Fall 1988by: John Pope-Hennessy

GIOVANNI DI PAOLO. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin Fall 1988
by: John Pope-Hennessy

Softcover. NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.

Record # 386486

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Giovanni Pisano Sculptorby: Ayrton, Michael/Henry Moore/Ilario Bessi

Giovanni Pisano Sculptor
by: Ayrton, Michael/Henry Moore/Ilario Bessi

Hardcover. New York, Weybright and Talley, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with 370 black & white plates and a color frontispiece. Introduction by Henry Moore. Photographs by Ilario Bessi in collaboration with Henry Moore. Brown canvas, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover blocked in gilt with publishers' device, Dust jacket with light surface wear to back cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611838

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Historical Studies of Church-Building in the Middle Ages: Venice, Siena, Florenceby: Norton, Charles Eliot

Historical Studies of Church-Building in the Middle Ages: Venice, Siena, Florence
by: Norton, Charles Eliot

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1880, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 331 pages, with gilt top edge and titles. Minor corner and edge wear, light crack along spine but no loose pages, overall, clean and tight copy.

Record # 854290

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Humanists and Jurists: Six Studies in the Renaissance by: Gilmore, Myron

Humanists and Jurists: Six Studies in the Renaissance
by: Gilmore, Myron

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, maroon cloth with a lightly worn dust jacket. Previous owner's signature, pencil notes on front end paper. Otherwise clean. These studies concern the development in the Renaissance of a new perspective on the past, a new method for interpreting the meaning of the documents of the past, and a reformulation of traditional doctrine that history was philosophy teaching by example.

Record # 385473

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Inventing the Renaissance Puttoby: Dempsey, Charles

Inventing the Renaissance Putto
by: Dempsey, Charles

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 277 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. The putto (often portrayed as a mischievous baby) appears frequently in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy. The "spiritelli" embody a minor species of demon, neither good nor bad. This book discusses the manifestations of the putto-spiritello in 15th-century art and literature. It offers parallel interpretations of two works: Botticelli's "Mars and Venus", a painting in which infant Satyr-putti appear as the panic-inducing spirits of the nightmare, and Politian's "Stanze", a poem in which masked cupids appear to the hero in a deceiving dream. The text concludes with an examination of the functions of such masks in the poetry and public masquerades sponsored by Lorenzo de'Medici and in Michelangelo's scheme for the decoration of the Medici Chapel. Clean copy.

Record # 382186

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Italian High Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture - 3 Volumes - Plate Volume, Text Volume, Catalogue Volumeby: Pope-Hennessy, John

Italian High Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture - 3 Volumes - Plate Volume, Text Volume, Catalogue Volume
by: Pope-Hennessy, John

Hardcover. London, Phaidon, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Part III of Pope-Hennessy's Introduction to Italian Sculpture. 3 Volumes - Plate Volume - non-paginated. Illustrated with black & white plates. Bump at top of spine. Dust jacket age darkened, wear along edges. Clean, tight copy. Text Volume - 126 pages. Black & white illustrations. Bottom right corner bumped. Dust jacket age darkened, wear along edges. Clean, tight copy. Catalogue Volume - 183 pages. Dust jacket age darkened, wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611544

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Italian Landscape in Eighteenth Century England: A study chiefly of the influence of Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa on English Taste 1700-1800 by: Manwaring, Elizab

Italian Landscape in Eighteenth Century England: A study chiefly of the influence of Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa on English Taste 1700-1800
by: Manwaring, Elizab

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth stamped in gilt, 243 pages. Twenty-five b&w plates illustrating landscape designs. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 383183

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Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School (2 Vols.)by: Berenson, Bernard

Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School (2 Vols.)
by: Berenson, Bernard

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages of text, 1478 b&w plates, 39 index pages. Two volume set, textured cloth covers, clean dustjackets, set shows little wear. Cardboard slipcase with paper chipping to edges.

Record # 405683

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Italian Style: Fashion Since 1945by: Sonnet Stanfill (Ed.)

Italian Style: Fashion Since 1945
by: Sonnet Stanfill (Ed.)

Hardcover. London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. "Made in Italy" is an internationally recognized mark of style. From the 1940s to the present day, Italy's fashion achievements--haute couture design and innovative ready-to-wear, artisanal leather and fur production, high-end textiles, knitwear, and fine tailoring--are undeniable. Featuring designers and labels of the highest caliber alongside bespoke tailors and ready-to-wear menswear specialists, this book offers an unparalleled look at the inspiration, marketing, skill, and craftsmanship behind the finest Italian labels. Specially commissioned essays are paired with stunning fashion photography, archival material, and previously unseen objects from private collections to illuminate the secrets of Italy's la bella moda.

Record # 369866

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Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesqueby: Giorgio Bertellini

Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque
by: Giorgio Bertellini

Softcover. Bloomington, Indiana University, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 443 pages, b&w illustrations, index. Traces the origins of American cinema's century-long fascination with Italy and Italian immigrants to the popularity of the pre-photographic aesthetic - the picturesque. "To read Bertellini's superb book is to enter into an intense, rich, and intricately layered experience of Italian immigrant culture in the New York of the 1900's and 1910's." Clean copy.

Record # 398034

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La Riforma protestante nell'Italia del Cinquecento (Studi storici) (Italian Edition) by: Salvatore Caponetto

La Riforma protestante nell'Italia del Cinquecento (Studi storici) (Italian Edition)
by: Salvatore Caponetto

Softcover. Torino IT, Claudiana, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, laminated wrappers, 526 pages, b&w illustrations. ITALIAN TEXT. Labels inside covers, from university library but like new, never checked out.

Record # 384425

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Lions and Foxes - Men and Ideas of the Italian Renaissanceby: Alexander, Sidney

Lions and Foxes - Men and Ideas of the Italian Renaissance
by: Alexander, Sidney

Softcover. Ohio University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 375 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy. Light corner crease to cover corner.

Record # 374038

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Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissanceby: Jones, Jonathan

Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance
by: Jones, Jonathan

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st us, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Small red dot remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 352647

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Lure of Italy, The: American Artists and The Italian Experience, 1760 - 1914by: Stebbins, Theodore E. Et al.

Lure of Italy, The: American Artists and The Italian Experience, 1760 - 1914
by: Stebbins, Theodore E. Et al.

Hardcover. Boston, Massachusetts, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 470 pages. Brown cloth cover, color illustrated dust jacket, 113 color and 206 illustrations. Still in original shrink wrap; book in excellent condition. American artists have been inspired by Italy since the 1760s, when Benjamin West, the first American painter to travel there, was drawn to the ancient Roman ruins and magnificent Renaissance architecture, statuary, and frescoes. This intriguing, superbly illustrated book is the first to explore the fascination Italy held for the American artist from West's time to the eve of World War I.The unique sense of the past found in Italy, where tangible evidence exists of a continual civilization from antiquity to the present, lured countless American artists to its cities, towns, and countryside. Painters from West and Copley in the eighteenth century to Cole, Inness, Whistler, Sargent, and Prendergast in the nineteenth century were inspired to create many of their finest works in Italy, as were American sculptors such as Hiram Powers and Harriet Hosmer and writers from Washington Irving to Henry James. This in-depth study includes 319 illustrations, of which 113 are reproduced in full color, many of works that have not previously been published. Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., John Moors Cabot Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Professor of Art History at Boston University, provides a broad overview of the American perception of Italy and the unique role that Italy played in the formation of American art.

Record # 371895

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Lure of Italy, The: American Artists and The Italian Experience, 1760 - 1914by: Stebbins, Theodore E. Et al.

Lure of Italy, The: American Artists and The Italian Experience, 1760 - 1914
by: Stebbins, Theodore E. Et al.

Hardcover. Boston, Massachusetts, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 470 pages. Brown cloth cover, color illustrated dust jacket, 113 color and 206 illustrations. Still in original shrink wrap; book in excellent condition. American artists have been inspired by Italy since the 1760s, when Benjamin West, the first American painter to travel there, was drawn to the ancient Roman ruins and magnificent Renaissance architecture, statuary, and frescoes. This intriguing, superbly illustrated book is the first to explore the fascination Italy held for the American artist from West's time to the eve of World War I.The unique sense of the past found in Italy, where tangible evidence exists of a continual civilization from antiquity to the present, lured countless American artists to its cities, towns, and countryside. Painters from West and Copley in the eighteenth century to Cole, Inness, Whistler, Sargent, and Prendergast in the nineteenth century were inspired to create many of their finest works in Italy, as were American sculptors such as Hiram Powers and Harriet Hosmer and writers from Washington Irving to Henry James. This in-depth study includes 319 illustrations, of which 113 are reproduced in full color, many of works that have not previously been published. Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., John Moors Cabot Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Professor of Art History at Boston University, provides a broad overview of the American perception of Italy and the unique role that Italy played in the formation of American art.

Record # 605468

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Machiavelli and Guicciardini: Politics and History in Sixteenth Century Florence by: Felix Gilbert

Machiavelli and Guicciardini: Politics and History in Sixteenth Century Florence
by: Felix Gilbert

Softcover. NY, W. W. Norton , reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 339 pages. In Felix Gilbert's skilled analysis, the figures of Niccolo Machiavelli, whose writing changed the way people think about politics, and Francesco Guicciardini, whose History of Italy is one of the first classics of modern historical writing, provide important clues to interpreting the Renaissance. "Instead of treating these two great figures in isolation, Professor Gilbert puts them into the context of their times, into the stream of political thinking and historical writing of which they were a part. . . .His book is the fruit of years of writing of which they were a part. . . .His book is the fruit of years of original research among Florentine archives and of careful thought about the problems of Renaissance politics and historiography." Clean, bight copy.

Record # 386921

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Mapping the Invisible: EU-Roma Gypsiesby: Orta, Lucy (editor)

Mapping the Invisible: EU-Roma Gypsies
by: Orta, Lucy (editor)

Softcover. London, Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Mapping the Invisible: EU-Roma Gypsies takes the reader on a visual journey across Europe with a focus on its fastest-growing ethnic minority: the Roma. This publication is the result of a unique partnership called EU-ROMA formed by a group of architects, designers and artists wishing to raise awareness to the diversity and richness of the Roma people. The book shows us the EU-ROMA projects conducted together with the gypsy communities in Romania, Greece, Italy and the UK.

Record # 352268

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Marco Polo's Silk Road: The Art of the Journey - An Italian at the Court of Kublai Khanby: N/A

Marco Polo's Silk Road: The Art of the Journey - An Italian at the Court of Kublai Khan
by: N/A

Hardcover. Watkins, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 272 pages. Marco Polo (c.1254-1324) was a Christian merchant from the Venetian Republic who learned about trading while his father and uncle were absent on an extended journey through Asia, which culminated in a visit with the great khan Kublai. In 1269 the brothers returned to Venice and met Marco for the first time. The three of them then embarked on a new journey to Asia and the court of the khan, returning after more than two decades to find Venice at war. Marco was imprisoned in Genoa, whereupon he dictated his romantic-sounding stories to a cellmate. The popularity of his account is a rare example of a success in publishing before the age of printing. Introduction by John Masefield.

Record # 374080

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Michelangelo: The Achievement of Fame, 1475-1534by: Hirst, Michael

Michelangelo: The Achievement of Fame, 1475-1534
by: Hirst, Michael

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 438 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 350755

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Moment of Caravaggio, The (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts)by: Fried, Michael

Moment of Caravaggio, The (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts)
by: Fried, Michael

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. illustrated throughout in color. Light edgewear to dust jacket with two small closed tears. Clean, tight copy. This is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In his first extended consideration of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610), Michael Fried offers a transformative account of the artist's revolutionary achievement. Based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts delivered at the National Gallery of Art, The Moment of Caravaggio displays Fried's unique combination of interpretive brilliance, historical seriousness, and theoretical sophistication, providing sustained and unexpected readings of a wide range of major works, from the early Boy Bitten by a Lizard to the late Martyrdom of Saint Ursula. And with close to 200 color images, The Moment of Caravaggio is as richly illustrated as it is closely argued. The result is an electrifying new perspective on a crucial episode in the history of European painting. Focusing on the emergence of the full-blown "gallery picture" in Rome during the last decade of the sixteenth century and the first decades of the seventeenth, Fried draws forth an expansive argument, one that leads to a radically revisionist account of Caravaggio's relation to the self-portrait; of the role of extreme violence in his art, as epitomized by scenes of decapitation; and of the deep structure of his epoch-defining realism. Fried also gives considerable attention to the art of Caravaggio's great rival, Annibale Carracci, as well as to the work of Caravaggio's followers, including Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, Bartolomeo Manfredi, and Valentin de Boulogne.

Record # 350748

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Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945by: Bosworth, R. J. B.

Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945
by: Bosworth, R. J. B.

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 692 pages, b&w photographs. Beautiful copy. Like new. An evaluation of Italy's notorious Fascist period under dictator Benito Mussolini considers its violence and demands for obedience, noting how it served as a model for other twentieth-century dictatorships while arguing that the nation's largely undeveloped country and tribal family structures helped Italians to devise creative survival and resistance methods.

Record # 450319

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My Fault: Mussolini As I Knew Himby: Margherita Grassini Sarfatti

My Fault: Mussolini As I Knew Him
by: Margherita Grassini Sarfatti

Hardcover. NY, Enigma Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 323 pages, b&w illustrations. A memoir by Mussolini's longtime lover. It reveals Il Duce as riddled with disease, sexually manic, boastful, vindictive and cunning, yet deeply insecure. About a dozen pages with light pencil marking. Surprisingly scarce.

Record # 398036

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Niccolo' Machiavelli and His Times (4 Volume Set) by: Prof. Pasquale Villari

Niccolo' Machiavelli and His Times (4 Volume Set)
by: Prof. Pasquale Villari

Hardcover. London, C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1st, 1878/1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four volume set complete, 3/4 calf dyed blue with blue cloth bindings. Spines stamped in gilt with ornate decorations, raised bands, top edge gilt. Translated by Linda Villari. 353, 389, 424, 445 pages, marbled endpapers. Volumes 1 and 2 were published in 1878, volumes 3 and 4 were published in 1883, but it is a matching set. Bright, unmarked set with tight bindings. Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 374439

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Pompeii: Echoes from the Grand Tourby: Jay Parini, Ethan Canin, Jim Nisbet, Angelo Cannavacciuolo (Creator), Mimmo Jodice (Photographer), Marcello Fiori (Introduction

Pompeii: Echoes from the Grand Tour
by: Jay Parini, Ethan Canin, Jim Nisbet, Angelo Cannavacciuolo (Creator), Mimmo Jodice (Photographer), Marcello Fiori (Introduction

Rome, Contrasto, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 136 pages, 53 b&w plates. A collection of 53 photographs of Pompeii, never published before, shot by the master photographer Mimmo Jodice. Unique images, visions conjuring up a long-lost past tradition, coupled with texts by Ethan Canin, Jim Nisbet and Jay Parini. No dj issued.

Record # 357246

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Quelle Signorineby: Augias, Corrado

Quelle Signorine
by: Augias, Corrado

Softcover. Milano, Longanesi & Co., 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 103 pages. Text in Italian. Light edgewear to wrappers, faint foxing to edges and end papers.

Record # 350433

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Scritti Varii - (1879-1900) (Italian Text)by: Fortunato, Giustino

Scritti Varii - (1879-1900) (Italian Text)
by: Fortunato, Giustino

Hardcover. Roma, CalicEditori, First Thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 440 pages. Hardcover in Italian text. Red cloth boards with black titles to spine. Bright navy dust jacket with photograph & red printed titles. Clean, unmarked & crisp copy.

Record # 750673

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Selected Writings of Girolamo Savonarola: Religion and Politics, 1490-1498by: Borelli, Anne (Editor, translation), Maria Pastore Passaro (Editor, translation)

Selected Writings of Girolamo Savonarola: Religion and Politics, 1490-1498
by: Borelli, Anne (Editor, translation), Maria Pastore Passaro (Editor, translation)

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 381 pages. Hardcover. Deep red cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board, label (price tag?) residue to bottom right corner of back cover board. B/w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 99154

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Short History of the Italian People, Aby: Trevelyan, Janet Penrose

Short History of the Italian People, A
by: Trevelyan, Janet Penrose

Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st Edition, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 580 pages. Hardcover. 24 b/w illustrations throughout including frontispiece with tissue guard and 6 maps (fold out). Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine (slightly faded) and front cover, some moisture damage to front cover, bump to bottom right corner of board. Tanning to pages and edges, pages otherwise unmarked.

Record # 99146

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Small Towns Big Cities: The Urban Experience of Italian Americans by: Dennis Barone; Stefano Luconi (Editors)

Small Towns Big Cities: The Urban Experience of Italian Americans
by: Dennis Barone; Stefano Luconi (Editors)

Softcover. NY, American Italian Historical Assoc., 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 248 pages. This volume consists of a selection of 14 scholarly works examining the urban experience of Italian Americans in small towns and big cities, out of the approximately 60 stimulating papers presented at the 41st annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association, held in 2008. Clean copy.

Record # 398105

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Stones of Venice, The - 3 Volumesby: Ruskin, John

Stones of Venice, The - 3 Volumes
by: Ruskin, John

Hardcover. London, Smith, Elder and Co., Second Edition, 1858, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three hardcover volumes with blue leather covers featuring marbled endpapers, raised bands along brown spines with red title plates, gilt decoration. Second Edition. Black & white, and some color illustrations in all 3 volumes by John Ruskin. Volume 1 - "The Foundations". 400 pages. Top edge gilt. Light, faint pencil marginalia to a few pages. Minor abrasion to covers. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - "The Sea Stories". 394 pages. Top edge gilt. Faint foxing to some pages. a few moderate abrasions to rear cover. Clean, tight copy. Volume 3 - "The Fall". 362 pages. Top edge gilt. Light pencil marginalia scattered throughout. Faint foxing to some pages. Minor abrasions to covers. Clean, tight copy. A nice set.

Record # 612185

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Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collectionby: Goldman, Jean

Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection
by: Goldman, Jean

Hardcover. Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This catalogue presents 59 masterful Italian drawings from the late 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries: working drawings, preparatory sketches, and finished compositions that have been added in recent years to the private collection of Jean and Steven Goldman. In her essays, Jean Goldman assesses the collection within the context of Mannerism and the role of drawing in the business of art. She and Nicolas Schwed coauthor detailed entries on the works' attributions, subjects, and functions, complete with documentation including provenance, bibliography, exhibition history, and comparative illustrations. The catalogue presents the work of more than forty artists, some of whom, such as Giorgio Vasari and Pietro da Cortona, were major figures, and others who were virtually unknown. Together, these magnificent works trace the rise and evolution of Mannerism in Italy.

Record # 353348

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Studies in Italian Renaissance Architectureby: Lotz, Wolfgang

Studies in Italian Renaissance Architecture
by: Lotz, Wolfgang

Hardcover. Cambridge, The MIT Press, 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout.Light foxing to edges, pen markings on a couple pages. Dust jacket with shelf wear, small tears to edges. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 750350

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