Found 1,465 results for "Europe - Italy"
Benandanti
by Carlo Ginzburg, John Tedeschi
On 21 March 1575, in the monastery of San Francesco di Cividale in the Friuli, there appeared before the vicar general, ...
Il formaggio e i vermi
by Carlo Ginzburg, Anne C. Tedeschi
As frequently happens, this research, too, came about by chance.
Giovanni and Lusanna
by Gene Brucker
Ser Filippo Mazzei was a Florentine notary whose career spanned the middle decades of the fifteenth century.
Italian Villas and Their Gardens
by Edith Wharton
THROUGH it is an exaggeration to say that there are no flowers in Italian gardens.
The Sicilian Vespers
by Steven Runciman
On a January day early in 1251 a messenger came to Lyons, where Pope Innocent IV was living in exile from Rome.
Lucrezia Borgia
by Sarah Bradford
At the time of Lucrezia Borgia's birth in 1480, Italy was famously a geographical expression rather than a country, a pe...
The passion
by Jeanette Winterson
It was Napoleon who had such a passion for chicken that he kept his chefs working around the clock.
Cosa Nostra
by John Dickie, Dickie, John
Palermo became an Italian city on 7 June 1860 when, under the terms of a ceasefire, two long columns of defeated troops ...
The devil's broker
by Frances Stonor Saunders
THERE WERE GOOD WAYS to die, and bad ways to die.
Dei delitte e delle pene
by Cesare Beccaria
In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, ...
April Blood
by Lauro Martines
'THE DISH OF revenge', they say in France, 'is best eaten cold.'
