A blending of art and cultural criticism, travel writing, and personal narrative, Sicilian Odyssey is Francine Prose's imaginative consideration of the diverse cultural legacies found juxtaposed and entangled on the Mediterranean island of Sicily. She writes of the intensity of Sicily, the "commitment to the extreme," where the history is more colorful, the sun hotter, the cooking earthier, the violence more horrific, the carnival more raucous, the...

Form-fitting dresses, silk veils, earrings, furs, high-heeled shoes, make-up, and dyed, flowing hair. It is difficult for a contemporary person to reconcile these elegant clothes and accessories with the image of cloistered nuns. For many of the some thousand nuns in early modern Venice, however, these fashions were the norm. Often locked in convents without any religious calling-simply to save their parents the expense of their dowry-these involuntary...

Il s'agit d'un guide pour un voyage de 10 jours dans le pays des Étrusques, de Rome à Florence en passant par Cerveteri, Civitavecchia, Tarquinia, Orbetello, Grosseto, Massa Marittima, Sienne, Volterra et San Gimignano. Il contient des descriptions détaillées et des photos en couleur des sites touristiques. Il est idéal pour une utilisation sur votre smartphone, il contient des liens actifs vers les sites de nombreux avis pour les meilleurs...

Paganini- showman, womanizer, dazzling virtuoso, is one of the most charismatic characters in the history of classical music. His violin, il Cannone (the Cannon), is now kept in Genoa, Italy, where it is played only once every two-years in a sold-out concert by the winner of an international competition. This year, though, a Parisian art dealer is found dead in his hotel room the day after the concert. In his wallet is a scrap of sheet music, torn...

A science-oriented portrait of the Renaissance master sets Leonardo da Vinci's achievements against a backdrop of the fifteenth century while explaining how his experiments and investigations inspired his world-changing achievements.

"History of Napoleon's art looting of Italy and the subsequent formation of the Louvre"--

During the interwar period, Japanese intellectuals, writers, activists, and politicians, although conscious of the many points of intersection between their politics and those of Mussolini, were ambivalent about the comparability of Imperial Japan and Fascist Italy. In The Fascist Effect, Reto Hofmann uncovers the ideological links that tied Japan to Italy, drawing on extensive materials from Japanese and Italian archives to shed light on the formation...

In this spirited memoir, veteran TV journalist Paul Paolicelli does what many of us can only dream of-he picks up and moves to a foreign country in an attempt to trace his ancestral roots. With the help of Luigi, his guide and companion, he travels through Italy-Rome, Gamberale, Matera, Miglionico, Alessandria, even Mussolini's hometown of Predappio-and discovers the tragic legacy of the Second World War that is still affecting the Old Country. He...

2019 edition-It is no mistake that Bellagio is called the "pearl" of Lake Como. It is undoubtedly the most famous resort on the lake. For centuries, Bellagio's scenic location has enchanted artists and writers, not only from Italy but also from abroad. It is situated on the tip of a headland that divides the lake into the two legs of Como and Lecco. The town stretches along the coast, and part of it goes up the slopes of the peninsula. Because of...