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Did early modern people care about their health? And what did it mean to lead a healthy life in Italy and England? Through a range of textual evidence, images and material artefacts Conserving healt……続きを見る

This study offers a clear, concise introduction to the Fascist-era practice, know as confino, of exiling antifascist dissidents to parts of Italy far from the dissidents’ homes, often on islands or ……続きを見る

The struggle in projects, ideas and symbols between the strongest Communist Party in the West and an anti-communist and pro-Western government coalition was the most peculiar founding element of Ita……続きを見る

This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive examination of the hospital movement that arose and prospered in northern Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. Throughout t……続きを見る

This book examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage. Through the use of notarial records and civil c……続きを見る

Indispensable immigrants recreates the world of peasants who streamed into the cities of late medieval and early modern northern Italy to carry crushingly heavy containers of wine. Written in an eas……続きを見る

This book is about one of the most remarkable European politicians of recent decades, Silvio Berlusconi, and about his contribution to the dramatic changes that have overtaken Italian politics since……続きを見る

"You might think there is little new to say about Venice, but Cees Nooteboom strolls down many under-explored alleyways in the city, his insights coloured by his knowledge of art and literature as w……続きを見る

Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge and the city and how these changed in a period whe……続きを見る

This book explores the intellectual world of Francesco Robortello, one of the most prominent scholars of the Italian Renaissance. From poetics to rhetoric, philology to history, topics to ethics, Ro……続きを見る

In the late nineteenth century, Italians and Eastern European Jews joined millions of migrants around the globe who left their countries to take advantage of the demand for unskilled labor in rapidl……続きを見る

E’ poco ricordato, ma l’occupazione e le operazioni controguerriglia in Balcania, come erano ufficialmente designati i territori ex jugoslavi, costituì indubbiamente il più importante sforzo bellico……続きを見る

"Monarquía", fundamental tratado de filosofía política en el sentido aristotélico del término, fue escrito por Dante Alighieri en latín e impreso en Basilea recién en 1559. Dante expone en este trat……続きを見る

Il brigantaggio è stato la risposta diretta del proletariato all'organizzazione della neonata nazione italiana, a seguito dell'invasione militare piemontese e dell'impostazione coloniale che ne cons……続きを見る

Discover your Italian roots! Say "ciao" to your Italian ancestors! This in-depth guide will walk you through the exciting journey of researching your Italian famiglia both here and in Italy. Inside,……続きを見る

“La Mandrágora” es una comedia en prosa, escrita en 1518 por el político y filósofo italiano Nicolás Maquiavelo. Esta obra es considerada como la mejor comedia del Renacimiento y una de las más bril……続きを見る

An introduction to one of the premier humanists of the Italian Renaissance, whose extraordinary work in biography, politics, religion, and philosophy has been largely unknown to Anglophone readers. ……続きを見る

La presente cronologia intende offrire una ricostruzione dettagliata della storia della città di Genova, la celebre Repubblica marinara, dall'origine della sua fondazione fino all’età contemporanea.……続きを見る

THE DIARIES OF A MILITARY WIFE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR In 1935, Evelyn Shillington started a diary, little knowing the years of turmoil it would cover, and how insightful her experiences as an a……続きを見る

The untold story of Michelangelo's final decadesーand his transformation into one of the greatest architects of the Italian Renaissance As he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance art……続きを見る

This is the first biography of Luigi Galleani to appear in English. He’s a figure who appears repeatedly in histories of radical movements in Italy and the US in the late 19th and early 20th centur……続きを見る

"Una volta fuori dal Pci, mi raccontò Aldo, incontrò un compagno tranviere che gli chiese: 'E ora, Aldo, che fai?'. Lui rispose: 'Sono un comunista senza partito'." di Ella Baffoni e Peter Kammerer ……続きを見る

Otelo, un noble moro al servicio de la República de Venecia, experimentado para la guerra y recientemente nombrado regidor en Chipre, se ve envuelto en medio de una intriga apasionante por el amor q……続きを見る

"Othello", in full "Othello, the Moor of Venice" is tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1603–04 and published in 1622. The play derives its plot from Giambattista Giraldi’s "De g……続きを見る

The Italian Army’s participation in Hitler’s war against the Soviet Union has remained unrecognized and understudied. Bastian Matteo Scianna offers a wide-ranging, in-depth corrective. Mining Italia……続きを見る

Italian democracy may not be as fragile as many of its observers feared or imagined. It has lasted more than twice as long as the Fascist dictatorship that preceded it. Since the end of the Second W……続きを見る

In Italia alla data dell’unificazione nel 1861 non si possedeva ancora un vero e proprio apparato burocratico. Rispetto ad altre realtà europee che avevano realtà amministrative e istituzionali ben ……続きを見る

Written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1596 and 1598, "The Merchant of Venice" is classified as both an early Shakespearean comedy (more specifically, as a "Christian comedy") and as one of……続きを見る

I quattordici articoli, già pubblicati su Girodivite, e le tre appendici che compongono questo libro di Ferdinando Leonzio, ci raccontano, con abbondanza di particolari, le vicende politiche della C……続きを見る

Dovunque si andava, nei quartieri del popolo come in quelli della nobiltà, si scorgeva un movimento allegro, una lieta fatica, un affacendarsi rumoroso, una attività mai cessante, un fermento quotid……続きを見る