| Paul Hofmann - History - 1991 - 258 pages
No other people over so long a history have shown a greater knack for survival than the Italians. In this wryly affectionate book, Hofmann reveals his adopted countrymen in all ... | |
| Tim Parks - Family & Relationships - 2003 - 292 pages
In this seductive account of an Italian neighborhood with a statue of the Virgin at one end of the street, a derelict bottle factory at the other, and a wealth of exotic flora ... | |
| Tobias Jones - History - 2005 - 340 pages
"The Italy that emerges from Jones's travels is a country scarred by civil wars and "illustrious corpses"; a country that is proudly visual rather than verbal, based on ... | |
| James H. S. McGregor - History - 2008 - 384 pages
Venice came to life on spongy mudflats at the edge of the habitable world. Protected in a tidal estuary from barbarian invaders and Byzantine overlords, the fishermen, salt ... | |
| M. Drever - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 168 pages
These stories, memoirs and anecdotes represent an image of life in Italy that I developed as I grew up in its deepest south in the fifties and sixties. I wrote them for my son ... | |
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