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Harlequin and the Green Dressby: Fischetto, Laura

Harlequin and the Green Dress
by: Fischetto, Laura

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations, map by Letizia Galli. A beautiful gown forms the focus of activity for the zany characters that introduce young readers to the Commedia del l'arte and the history of comic theater, along with a map, a list of stock characters, and historical notes.

Record # 502783

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Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy by: Arms Dorothy Noyes /John Taylor Arms

Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy
by: Arms Dorothy Noyes /John Taylor Arms

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth with bright gilt lettering on cover and spine. Illustrated with 56 reproductions of etchings, aquatints, and drawings by John Taylor Arms, each with a captioned tissue-guard.. A delightful travelogue with exquisite artwork of John Taylor Arms. He specialized in portraying the gothic architecture of France and Italy. Traveling the back roads and visiting the then out-of-the-way towns of northern Italy by car, he visually captures the look and feel as his wife provides a charming travelog. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 379615

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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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Infinite Jest: Wit & Humor in Italian Renaissance Artby:  Barolsky, Paul

Infinite Jest: Wit & Humor in Italian Renaissance Art
by: Barolsky, Paul

Hardcover. Columbia MO, University of Missouri Press,, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, b&w plates. Dust jacket price-clipped, clean copy.

Record # 370763

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Into the Heart of the Mafia: A Journey Through the Italian Southby: David Lane

Into the Heart of the Mafia: A Journey Through the Italian South
by: David Lane

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In this investigation into the criminal underworld of the cities and villages of the Italian South, David Lane provides an unrivaled expose of the operations of the Mafia today From Naples, home of Mafia-controlled mozzarella and toxic waste, through the no less rotten Calabria, to Sicily, cradle of Cosa Nostra, the hold of the Mafia on Southern Italy is as strong as ever. Following a multi-decade career as a journalist in Italy, David Lane uses his extensive contacts into the world of organized crime to demonstrate how globalization has transformed the Mafia into more than simply a global phenomenon. In painful detail, Into the Heart of the Mafia describes the unceasing mafia pressure endured by priests and politicians, businessmen, trade unionists, and ordinary citizens, and the risks undertaken by the policemen, judges, and politicians who fight to weaken the Mafia's influence. A travelogue with the most deadly of implications, Into the Heart of the Mafia stands as a guide like no other into the darkest side of Italy.

Record # 378941

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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 American Forever: Classic Recipes for Everything You Want to Eat: A Cookbook by: Guarnaschelli, Alex

Italian American Forever: Classic Recipes for Everything You Want to Eat: A Cookbook
by: Guarnaschelli, Alex

Hardcover. NY, Clarkson Potter, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 287 pages, color plates. 120 go-to Italian American favorites for all the red-sauced, pan-fried, crispy-cornered, baked-until-bubbly comforting classics youll want to eat every night. Food Network star Alex Guarnaschelli may be a French-trained chef, an Iron Chef, and a short-order-chef to her daughter, Ava, but at her core, she is an Italian American home cook. Her moms heritage was Sicilian and her dads people were from Bari; she pledged allegiance to her fathers marinara on weekdays and to her moms on the weekend and grew up eating at many of the red-checked-tablecloth trattorias throughout New York City. She still stops in to chitchat with the shop owners in Little Italy, where she buys the milkiest fresh mozz, the most thinly sliced prosciutto, and the crunchiest biscotti. These are the recipes that are favorites for so many of us, whether your family is from Italy or not. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 396596

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Italian Bouquet; An Epicurean Tour of Italy (SIGNED COPY)by: Chamberlain, Samuel

Italian Bouquet; An Epicurean Tour of Italy (SIGNED COPY)
by: Chamberlain, Samuel

Hardcover. NY, Gourmet , 1st, 1958, Hardcover, cream colored buckram with Italian crest to front and spine; gilt title to spine. 593 pages with b&w photographs and illustrations by the author. SIGNED BY CHAMBERLAIN on the front fly leaf. Recipes translated from the Italian and adapted by Narcissa Chamberlain. Samuel V. Chamberlain (1895-1975) was an author, illustrator, photographer and artist who occasionally wrote under the pseudonym Phineas Beck. His works include books on historical architecture, interiors, fashion illustration, and cookbooks. White cloth covers soiled, Interior clean.

Record # 398198

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Italian Drawings in the Albertinaby: Walter Koschatzky; Konrad Oberhuber; Eckhart Knals (Ed.)

Italian Drawings in the Albertina
by: Walter Koschatzky; Konrad Oberhuber; Eckhart Knals (Ed.)

Hardcover. Greenwich CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. 322 pages. 100 B&W and color plates and 56 B&W illustrations. Pictorial dust jacket with edgewear. Light brown cloth. Auction stamp on front pastedown. Otherwise, a clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 385979

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Italian Film Posters by: Kehr, Dave

Italian Film Posters
by: Kehr, Dave

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Spotless and tight copy. 128 Italian film posters that are a rich array of both Italian films and the international cinema. Includes text and notes on each poster. Arranged by genre from the 30's to the late 50's.

Record # 456256

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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 Renaissance Ceramicsby: Watson, Wendy M.

Italian Renaissance Ceramics
by: Watson, Wendy M.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum Of Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated throughout with 112 color plates and 55 b&w reproductions. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. A catalogue to accompany an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A beautiful publication examining Italian Maiolica. An essential reference work for historians, collectors, and anyone with an interest in ceramics.

Record # 460355

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Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermoby: Parks, Tim

Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
by: Parks, Tim

Hardcover. London, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 261 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Insightful train travel portrait of Italy. Rough cut fore edge. Minor shelf wear/rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951834

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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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Itinerari Biellesi (Guide to Italian Alps)by: Mario Rosazza

Itinerari Biellesi (Guide to Italian Alps)
by: Mario Rosazza

Softcover. Biella Italy, Ferrara, 2nd pr., 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 34 pages, guide to the Alpine area of Italy, b&w photos in gravure, map in back. INSCRIBED BY WILME ROSAZZO on title page. Clean. ITALIAN TEXT.

Record # 374103

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Jacopo della Quercia - Sculptorby: Seymour, Jr., Charles

Jacopo della Quercia - Sculptor
by: Seymour, Jr., Charles

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 146 pages of text followed by large section of black & white photographic illustrations. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Dust jacket worn, with chipping along edges, fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611899

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La Basilica di San Francesco ad Assisi-The Basilica of St Francis in Assisiby: G. Malafarina

La Basilica di San Francesco ad Assisi-The Basilica of St Francis in Assisi
by: G. Malafarina

Softcover. Modena Italy, Franco Cosimo Panini , 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 268 pages. Color illustrated guide to all the historical and artistic attractions with critical commentary. 232 color plates, 200 schemes and diagrams. Clean copy.

Record # 379213

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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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La Strada: Italian Street Photographyby: Vicki Goldberg / Keith de Lellis /others

La Strada: Italian Street Photography
by: Vicki Goldberg / Keith de Lellis /others

Hardcover. Damiani Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 189 pages. La Strada captures the life and drama of Italy's streets from World War II through the 1970s. Its exquisite photographs, made by some of the most deeply skilled artists of the mid-twentieth century, are imbued with the essence of Neo-Realism, the aesthetic that produced some of the most influential Italian film and literature of the same era. The American gallerist and curator Keith de Lellis's selection of more than 200 pictures, some previously unpublished, by more than 60 masters--including Mario Giacomelli, Nino Migliori, and Mario De Biasi--reveals the touching, the humorous, and the tragic in the day-to-day lives of the Italian people, liberated from the grips of Fascism. A treasure trove, and a case for the continuing recognition of this inspired group of picture-makers. Clean copy

Record # 398011

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Leonardo Da Vinci: Engineer and Architectby: Theberge, Pierre

Leonardo Da Vinci: Engineer and Architect
by: Theberge, Pierre

Hardcover. Monteal, Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 345 pages plus 8 pages in rear. Large, hardcover exhibition catalog profusely illustrated with DaVinci's drawings. Some color fade to the dust jacket spine otherwise very good.

Record # 406638

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Leonardo: The Last Supperby: Barcilon, Pinin Brambilla/Pietro C. Marani

Leonardo: The Last Supper
by: Barcilon, Pinin Brambilla/Pietro C. Marani

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st US, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 440 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket and slipcase. Full color and black & white illustrations. Beautiful copy with light sunning to dust jacket spine, Clean, tight copy. The technical problems with the Last Supper began as soon as Leonardo started to paint it. He jettisoned the traditional fresco technique of applying paint to wet plaster, a method unsuited to Leonardo's slow and thorough execution, and created the work instead with an experimental technique that involved painting directly on the dry plaster. With this renegade method, Leonardo rendered one of the most enduring painting techniques volatile and unstable. Added to this initial complication have been centuries of pollution, tourists, candle smoke, and the ravages of age, not to mention food fights in the refectory staged by Napoleonic soldiers and Allied bombs in 1943. By the middle of the twentieth century, the Last Supper was in desperate need of a complete restoration. Pinin Brambilla Barcilon was chosen to head this twenty-year project, and Leonardo, The Last Supper is the official record of her remarkable effort. It first documents the cleaning and removal of the overpainting performed in the other attempts at restoration and then turns to Barcilon's meticulous additions in watercolor, which were based on Leonardo's preparatory drawings, early copies of the painting, and contemporary textual descriptions. This book presents full-scale reproductions of details from the fresco that clearly display and distinguish Leonardo's hand from that of the restorer. With nearly 400 sumptuous color reproductions, the most comprehensive technical documentation of the project by Barcilon, and an introductory essay by art historian and project codirector Pietro C. Marani that focuses on the history of the fresco,

Record # 458394

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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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Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy (SIGNED COPY)by: Tucker, Michael

Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy (SIGNED COPY)
by: Tucker, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MICHAEL TUCKER AND JILL EIKENBERRY (Author dedicated book to wife, Jill) on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468057

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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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Love Affair: A Venetian Journal by: Morris, Wright

Love Affair: A Venetian Journal
by: Morris, Wright

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. This book celebrates, in words and 44 full-color photographs, the adventure of living in the world's most astonishing city. The author's Venice is at eye level, a labyrinth of impressions, a museum of delights for that vanishing man, the walker. "The mind-boggling gift of Venice," he assures us, "is that it has escaped the tyranny of wheels." Man walks, strolls and dawdles; he does not run for his life. Although only the experience of living in Venice will fully accustom the visitor to a fact so unique, Wright Morris combines words and photographs to recapture the essence of this experience, sharing with the reader impressions of a particular moment in a fabulous place.

Record # 361850

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Luigi Of The Streets by: Carlson, Natalie Savage

Luigi Of The Streets
by: Carlson, Natalie Savage

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, price-clipped. B&w drawings by Emily Arnold McCully. Luigi, who lives on the streets in the French port of Marseilles, believes a gypsy has put a curse on his family. Against a vivid background of assorted characters, the author has created exciting and humorous story.

Record # 380649

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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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Made In Italy? 1951-2001by: Settembrini, Luigi

Made In Italy? 1951-2001
by: Settembrini, Luigi

Softcover. Milan, Skira, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. In publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 351133

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Made In Italy? 1951-2001by: Settembrini, Luigi

Made In Italy? 1951-2001
by: Settembrini, Luigi

Softcover. Milan, Skira, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 217 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. In publisher's shrinkwrap. A tribute to the world renowned phenomenon of Made in Italy on the occasion of two memorable dates: the fiftieth anniversary of the first Italian fashion show (Florence, 1951) and the fortieth anniversary of the International Furniture Show (Milan, 1961). The book, devoted to fifty years of Italian fashion and design, examines the complex mosaic of Made in Italy divided into different aspects and themes.

Record # 351128

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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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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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Niger Vol. 1 (Italian Text) by: Marzocchi, Leila

Niger Vol. 1 (Italian Text)
by: Marzocchi, Leila

Softcover. Italy , Coconino Press, Reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Softcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor creasing to dust jacket rear flap.

Record # 353522

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Nino Migliori: Signsby: Philippe Daverio (Author), Nino Migliori (Editor)

Nino Migliori: Signs
by: Philippe Daverio (Author), Nino Migliori (Editor)

Hardcover. Damiani, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 300 pages. This monograph, Signs, is dedicated to Nino Migliori, one of the old masters of photography who had a significant effect on the history of Italian imagery after World War II. Signs presents a broad range of his production which has always been marked by creativity, versatility, and innovation. Included here are Miglori's portraits, landscapes, architecture, street scenes, abstract imagery, and polaroids. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 398661

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Not Paved With Gold: Italian-Canadian Immigrants in the 1970s (SIGNED COPY)by: Vincenzo Pietropaolo; Foreword by Nino Ricci

Not Paved With Gold: Italian-Canadian Immigrants in the 1970s (SIGNED COPY)
by: Vincenzo Pietropaolo; Foreword by Nino Ricci

Softcover. Toronto, Between the Lines, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 134 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY PIETROPAOLO on the title page and also INSCRIBED on the front fly leaf. This collection of stunning photographs and inspired commentary documents the lives of Italian immigrants to Toronto. Award-winning photographer and cultural historian Vincenzo Pietropaolo has spent much of his life taking pictures inside the tightly knit Italian-Canadian community. While the images in this book are part of the fabric of life in Toronto, they transcend the specificity of place to evoke the lives of immigrants in cities around the world. Clean copy.

Record # 398139

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Orphan Singer, The (SIGNED COPY)by: McCully, Emily Arnold

Orphan Singer, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: McCully, Emily Arnold

Hardcover. New York, Arthur A. Levine Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. SIGNED BY EMILY ARNOLD MCCULLY ON BLANK PRELIM PAGE WITH ILLUSTRATED SKETCH. Acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Record # 806723

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Out With Garibaldi - A Story of the Liberation of Italyby: Henty, G. A.

Out With Garibaldi - A Story of the Liberation of Italy
by: Henty, G. A.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 346 pages plus publisher's ads. Blue cloth with red shirt loading a musket on front board. 8 b&w plates by William Rainey (1852-1936) was a noted landscape painter and figure artist who regularly illustrated books for Henty. Hinge cracked at title page. Moderate shelf wear. No markings.

Record # 372227

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Paolo Uccello ITALIAN TEXT, INSCRIBEDby: Parronchi, Alessandro

Paolo Uccello ITALIAN TEXT, INSCRIBED
by: Parronchi, Alessandro

Hardcover. Italy, Massimiliano Boni, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 128 pages, plus plates. ITALIAN TEXT. INSCRIBED. Color frontispiece, B/w illustrations/plates throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear. Covers good, bound in blue fabric. Foxing on edges and endpapers, but pages clean. In very good condition.

Record # 30989

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Picturesque Sicily by: Paton, William Agnew

Picturesque Sicily
by: Paton, William Agnew

NY, Harper & Brothers , reprint, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 385 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 48 half tone photographs. Original decorated publisher's cloth, with gilt titles. First published in 1897. Account of Sicily at the turn of the 20th century, with a focus on the art, history, and landscape of the Island, from the largest of cities to its hamlets and villages. Contemporary color postcard laid in. Original pale green cloth fafed, previous owners name, embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 383033

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Piero della Francescaby: Bertelli, Senior Carlo

Piero della Francesca
by: Bertelli, Senior Carlo

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages, illustrated throughout in full color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, faint foxing to bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 458389

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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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Preghiere: Sculture di Giordano Montorsiby: Montorsi, Giordano, Enrico Gariboldi, and Pier Carlo Bontempi

Preghiere: Sculture di Giordano Montorsi
by: Montorsi, Giordano, Enrico Gariboldi, and Pier Carlo Bontempi

Softcover. Milano, Arte Contemporanea, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog of the Italian sculptor's work. Limited to 777 copies. Text in English and Italian with an essay by Enrico Gariboldi and a poem by Pier Carlo Bontempi. Includes numerous color illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 398436

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