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 CorreggioBest Price: $175.00 This beautifully illustrated book is the first full-scale chronological and critical account of... |  Renaissance Self-Portraiture: The Visual Construction of Identity and the Social Status of the ArtistBest Price: $199.00 The author takes on a difficult task and fulfills it beyond expectation. It allows the modern... |  Dosso Dossi Court Painter in Renaissance FerraraBest Price: $24.23 This is exactly how you want a book on a painter to be. The book features beautiful and large... |  Italian Paintings, Florentine School A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of ArtBest Price: $12.99 A chronological discussion of more than one hundred of the Museum's Florentine paintings,... |  Raphael, Dürer, and Marcantonio Raimondi: Copying and the Italian Renaissance PrintBest Price: $46.51 In early sixteenth-century Italy, works of art came to be understood as unique objects made by... |
 Lavinia Fontana: A Painter and Her Patrons in Sixteenth-century BolognaThis is an excellent reference in world art. Fontana is considered the most significant woman... |  The Evolution of English Collecting: The Reception of Italian Art in the Tudor and StuartBest Price: $28.39 After a thorough survey of the background history of European collecting, focussing in... |  Palladio's Venice: Architecture and Society in a Renaissance RepublicBest Price: $45.00 Really a wonderful book on the iconic Palladio and his muse Venice. It's as if, the two... |  Drawn to Italian Drawings: The Goldman Collection (Art Institute of Chicago)Best Price: $45.00 This lovely book features exquisite drawings from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, including... |  The Genius of Andrea Mantegna (Metropolitan Museum of Art)Best Price: $10.79 Few artists have managed to imprint their personality so indelibly on posterity as Andrea... |
 Renaissance in Rome Hb (Everyman Art Library)Best Price: $24.95 Continuing the tradition of the Everyman Art Series, combining learned yet accessible text with... |  Roman Cities (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)Best Price: $17.50 |  Constantinople and the West: Essays on the Late Byzantine Palaeologan and Italian Renaissances and the Byzantine and Roman ChurchesDeno John Geanakoplos demonstrates the fusion of Byzantine and Latin cultural and ecelsiastical... |  La Grande Italia: The Rise and Fall of the Myth of the Nation in the Twentieth Century (George L. Mosse Series)Best Price: $16.56 La Grande Italia traces the history of the myth of the nation in Italy along the curve of its... |  Early Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art GalleryBest Price: $73.37 |
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 The Ceremonial Musicians of Late Medieval FlorenceBest Price: $10.14 The Ceremonial Musicians of Late Medieval Florence follows the development of Florentine musical... |  S. Andrea in Mantua: The Building HistoryBest Price: $131.52 S. Andrea in Mantua is the final architectural work and the masterpiece of Leon Battista... |  Changing Patrons: Social Identity and the Visual Arts in Renaissance FlorenceBest Price: $64.95 To whom should we ascribe the great flowering of the arts in Renaissance Italy? Artists like... |  The Usurer's Heart: Giotto, Enrico Scrovegni, and the Arena Chapel in PaduaBest Price: $71.00 At the turn of the fourteenth century, Enrico Scrovegni constructed the most opulent palace that... |  On the Fiery March: Mussolini Prepares for War (International History)Best Price: $56.77 "On the Fiery March" is a strong and valuable addition to any collection of World War... |
 Venice, the Enchanted Mirror: A Bedside CompanionBest Price: $23.36 This rich and fascinating celebration of Venice presents a series of unconventional impressions... |  Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance |  History of the Italian PeopleFrom the early years, when its cities and towns were self-governing, to the national rise to... |  From Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Public Building in Northern and Central Italy, AD 300-850 (Oxford Historical Monographs)Best Price: $125.00 This book is one of the best books ever written on the subject. However -- I paid over $100 for... |  Italy in the Nineteenth Century: 1796-1900 (Short Oxford History of Italy)Best Price: $40.51 Covering the period from the French Revolution to the end of the 19th Century, this volume sets... |
 Guardians of Republicanism: The Valori Family in the Florentine RenaissanceBest Price: $111.24 Guardians of Republicanism analyses the political and intellectual history of Renaissance... |  Classics and National Cultures (Classical Presences)Best Price: $68.39 Numerous nations have in one way or another engaged with the cultures of classical Greece and... |  Rome (Oxford Archaeological Guides)Best Price: $15.00 This particular guide's second edition by the reputable Oxford University Press has been... |  That Men Would Praise the Lord: The Triumph of Protestantism in Nimes, 1530-1570Best Price: $56.24 Focusing on the city of the Nimes in the mid-16th century, this book is more broadly about the... |  Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800: A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand DukesBest Price: $49.99 What can one say about a book that displays such erudition, such scholarship ? I am no student... |
 Sonnets for Michelangelo: A Bilingual Edition (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)Best Price: $69.97 The most published and lauded woman writer of early sixteenth-century Italy, Vittoria Colonna... |  The Mosaics of San Marco in Venice (2 Volumes in 4) (Pts. 1 & 2)Best Price: $665.00 Part 1: Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries. Text Volume: xvi, 496 p., 1 color plate, 74 halftones;... |  Emma, Lady Hamilton |  Artists of the Renaissance (Artists of an Era)Best Price: $63.52 This book is, by far, one of the best I've personally seen or read, on the subject. The... |  Church, Religion and Society in Early Modern Italy (European Studies Series)Best Price: $87.79 Christopher F. Black assesses the nature and extent of church reform demands within... |
 Modern ItalyBest Price: $34.97 Designed as a teaching text for universities, Modern Italy concentrates on the history of 20th... |  Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800 (Early Modern History)Best Price: $79.93 Many people are aware of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, but not many are aware of the... |  The British Empire and Its Italian Prisoners of War, 1940-1947Best Price: $157.22 During the Second World War, British and Imperial forces captured more than half a million... |  A History of Ancient Israel and JudahBest Price: $35.00 For those curious about the difference between this book and the one twice the price also listed... |  The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery DecodedBest Price: $3.44 Marcello Simonetta's 'The Montefeltro Conspiracy' is a vain attempt to create a... |
 Rome, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the First Multinational Corporation (Enterprise)Best Price: $2.00 There are many books on the Roman Empire, but this is the first to treat it as a business... |  In the Shadow of Florence: Provincial Society in Renaissance PesciaBest Price: $62.95 |  Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (Studies in the History of Sexuality)Best Price: $5.40 This is the true story of a mother superior named Sister Benedetta Carlini and another nun from... |  Power & Purity: Cathar Heresy in Medieval ItalyBest Price: $50.00 With exceptional clarity Professor Carol Lansing profiles the lives and underlying social... |  The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance VeniceThis social history explores early-modern Venetian society through the lens of the festive... |
 Italian Popular TalesBest Price: $6.32 Originally published in 1885, Italian Popular Tales is a fascinating trove of fairy tales,... |  Beyond the Rubicon: Romans and Gauls in Republican Italy (Oxford Classical Monographs)Best Price: $125.00 Book Description The Romans lived in fear and dread of their Gaulish neighbours in the middle... |  Music and Merchants: The Laudesi Companies of Republican FlorenceBest Price: $124.78 This is an indispensible book for performers and students of the Lauda repertory of Renaissance... |  Italian Altarpieces 1250-1550: Function and DesignSince the 1960s, the Italian altarpiece has attracted unprecedented and scholarly attention,... |  Agnolo Gaddi (Studies in History of Art & Architecture)Gaddi was a member of a family of artists that flourished in the early part of the Renaissance.... |
 Language and Images of Renaissance ItalyBest Price: $102.20 The Renaissance has traditionally been regarded as a critical turning point in the history of... |  Renaissance CharactersBest Price: $17.96 Renaissance Characters is a recent (1991) translation of an Italian text, L'uomo del... |  Leonardo: The Last SupperBest Price: $54.70 The focus of this book is the controversial restoration of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper,... |  Venice: The Hinge of Europe, 1081-1797Best Price: $112.78 In this magisterial history, National Book Award winner William H. McNeill chronicles the... |  The Medieval Mosaics of San Marco, Venice: A Color Archive (Chicago Visual Library)Best Price: $611.38 |
 Reclaiming Catherine of Siena: Literacy, Literature, and the Signs of OthersBest Price: $35.93 Catherine of Siena (1347?1380) wrote almost four hundred epistles in her lifetime, effectively... |  Mohamed Fekini and the Fight to Free Libya (Italian and Italian Amercian Studies)Best Price: $64.00 This book provides a significant history of Italy?s brutal occupation of Libya. Using the lens... |  Risorgimento: The History of Italy from Napolean to Nation StateBest Price: $23.81 I can't comment as to whether or not this is 'a good book,' but I can say what I... |  Cheese, Pears, and History in a Proverb (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)Best Price: $13.49 "Do not let the peasant know how good cheese is with pears" goes the old saying.... |  Ancient Israel, Its Life and InstitutionBest Price: $65.00 One of the most important books on the Old Testament of recent years. The general reader will... |
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 The Vatican and Italian Fascism, 1929-32: A Study in ConflictBest Price: $41.00 This is a study of relations between the Vatican and the Fascist regime in Italy in the most... |  Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua: Volume 1 (Cambridge Studies in Music)Best Price: $34.09 Viewed traditionally, the history of sixteenth-century Mantuan music is almost a catalogue of... |  The Medieval Super-Companies: A Study of the Peruzzi Company of FlorenceBest Price: $46.27 This book breaks new ground by presenting a detailed description and history of one of the most... |  Dictating Demography: The Problem of Population in Fascist Italy (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time)Best Price: $47.62 This book is a detailed examination of the demographic policy of Mussolini's Fascist regime.... |  Raccolta di cronisti e documenti storici lombardi inediti: Volume 1. Cronaca di Antonio Grumello pavese... Publicata da Giuseppe Müller (Italian Edition)Best Price: $32.99 This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1856 edition by Francesco Colombo, Milano. |
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 Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami: Opera Omnia (Erasmi Opera Omnia)Best Price: $89.73 Erasmus was highly criticized for his Latin translation of the New Testament. The English... |  Italian Neighbors: Or, A Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in VeronaBest Price: $4.00 Although Tim Parks has produced an interesting account of life in Italy, Italian Neighbors has... |  Leonardo on Art and the Artist (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)Best Price: $6.49 Here is a complete picture of the techniques and working philosophy of one of the greatest... |  Petra RediscoveredBest Price: $39.95 "Petra Rediscovered" brings us the discoveries from the ongoing archaeological... |  Search for Ancient Rome (New Horizons)Best Price: $121.26 Many times destroyed, many times rebuilt, Rome never completely disappeared. The famous symbols... |
 Giovanni and Lusanna : Love and Marriage in Renaissance FlorenceBest Price: $1.20 I had to read this book for one of my college history classes and it was just a really tedious... | ||||
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