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The Italian-American mafia has its roots in a mysterious and powerful criminal network in Sicily. While the mythology of the mafia has been widely celebrated in American culture, the true origins of……続きを見る

Con questo libro è la prima volta che viene proposta un'antologia della storia del risorgimento in chiave marcatamente antirisorgimentale. Se ne fa promotore e compilatore Antonio Nicoletta mettendo……続きを見る

“Fra tutte queste regioni, la matrice della nuova Italia fu il Piemonte, situato a nord ovest, con Torino come capitale. Più a oriente, era la grande città di Milano, che doveva diventare il centro ……続きを見る

Questo volume descrive in modo dettagliato una importante e sconosciuta opera di ingegneria, il ponte sospeso Real Ferdinando sul Garigliano, del Regno delle Due Sicilie realizzata nel 1832. Primo p……続きを見る

This multidisciplinary study is the first book devoted entirely to the critical interpretation of the writings of Mircea Eliade on myth. One of the most popular and influential historians and theori……続きを見る

Confined by behavioural norms and professional restrictions, women in Renaissance Italy found a welcome escape in an alternative world of play. This book examines the role of games of wit in the soc……続きを見る

*Discusses the rumors and controversies surrounding Rodrigo and the Borgia family, including allegations of corruption, incest, and murder. *Includes pictures of Rodrigo and important people and pla……続きを見る

Flavius Belisarius was a general of the Byzantine Empire. He was instrumental to Emperor Justinian's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman……続きを見る

Through his research on the status of women in Florence and other Italian cities, Julius Kirshner helped to establish the socio-legal history of women in late medieval and Renaissance Italy and chal……続きを見る

The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell’Arte Stage examines the emergence of the professional actress from the 1560s onwards in Italy. Tracing the historical progress of actresse……続きを見る

Femininity in the form of the donna-crisi, or “crisis-woman,” was a fixture of fascist propaganda in the early 1930s. A uniquely Italian representation of the modern woman, she was cosmopolitan, dan……続きを見る

All four books in one volume with a linked Table of Contents. The Papacy, next to Christianity, is the great FACT of the modern world. Of the two, the former, unhappily, has proved in some respects ……続きを見る

All six volumes are contained in this eBook. There is a linked table of contents, and the footnotes are also linked. Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the sec……続きを見る

For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and im……続きを見る

Winner of the 2013 New York Book Show Award in Scholarly/Professional Book Design From Ernest and Julio Gallo to Francis Ford Coppola, Italians have shaped the history of California wine. More than ……続きを見る

Since "Finding Italian Roots" first appeared in 1993, an ever increasing number of Americans have become interested in tracing their Italian heritage. This thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded ……続きを見る

Edition 2021 Revue et Augmentée COSA NOSTRA 200 ANS D’HISTOIRE DE LA MAFIA SICILIENNE Caterina Bartoldi qui a vécu plusieurs années en Sicile est devenue une spécialiste incontournable de la Mafia. ……続きを見る

Edition 2021 Revue et Augmentée MAFIA VOLUME 1 L’HISTOIRE DE COSA NOSTRA Caterina Bartoldi qui a vécu plusieurs années en Sicile est devenue une spécialiste incontournable de la Mafia. Dans ce livre……続きを見る

Wussten Sie das? Die weltbekanntesten italienischen Nachtische sind fast alle sizilianisch: Panna Cotta, Tiramisu, Cannoli und Cassata... und viele andere. Lassen Sie sich verführen von dem “Hohen T……続きを見る

Edition 2021 Revue et Augmentée Au Cœur de la Mafia L’Histoire de la Cosa Nostra Caterina Bartoldi qui a vécu plusieurs années en Sicile est devenue une spécialiste incontournable de la Mafia. Dans ……続きを見る

Edition 2021 Revue et Augmentée MAFIA VOLUME 3 LE LANGAGE DE LA MALAVITA Caterina Bartoldi qui a vécu plusieurs années en Sicile est devenue une spécialiste incontournable de la Mafia. Dans ce livre……続きを見る

Edition 2021 Revue et Augmentée MAFIA VOLUME 2 L’ANALYSE DE LA CRIMINALITE ORGANISEE SICILIENNE Caterina Bartoldi qui a vécu plusieurs années en Sicile est devenue une spécialiste incontournable de ……続きを見る

The era of the Scientific Revolution has long been epitomized by Galileo. Yet many women were at its vanguard, deeply invested in empirical culture. They experimented with medicine and practical alc……続きを見る

“Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.” One of the most influential books on statecraft ever written, Niccolò Machiavelli’s 1532 treatise The Prince invented modern political p……続きを見る

This book develops a number of new conceptual tools to tackle some of the most hotly debated issues concerning the nature of fascism, using three profoundly different national contexts in the inter-……続きを見る

In a city driven by fashion and design, visibility and invisibility are powerful forces. Milanese Encounters examines how the acts of looking, recognizing, and being seen reflect social relations an……続きを見る

The men of Renaissance Florence were so renowned for sodomy that "Florenzer" in German meant "sodomite." Indeed, in the late fifteenth century, as many as one in two Florentine men had come to the a……続きを見る

In the year 476 an unfortunate young man, mocked with the great names of the founders of the City and of the Empire, Romulus Augustus, nicknamed Augustulus, was deposed from the throne of the Caesar……続きを見る

The Omertà, the Law of Silence, prohibits speaking about Cosa Nostra. However, many proverbs in the Sicilian dialect show the presence of the Organized Crime. What do they mean? That's wha……続きを見る

L’Omertà proibisce parlare di Cosa Nostra. Tuttavia, molti proverbi in dialetto siciliano mostrano la presenza della Piovra. Che cosa valgono dire? Questo è ciò che questo libro vi spiegherà con mol……続きを見る