The house is Le Margherite, a home where the sprawling cast of The City and the House is welcome. At the center of this lush epistolary novel is Lucrezia, mother of five, and lover of many. Among her lovers—and perhaps the father of one of her children—is Giuseppe. After the sale of Le Margherite, the characters wander aimlessly as if in search of a lost paradise.

    Traces in detail the evolution of the chief genres of architecture, sculpture, painting, and draughtsmanship. Essays link individual works to the history & ideas of the time. 11" x 12 1/2". Color & b&w illus.

    Contains the novella "Barnabo of the Mountains" and the following short stories:-The Bewitched Bourgeois-Personal Escort-An Interrupted Story-The Gnawing Worm-The Time Machine-The Five Brothers-The Flying Carpet-The Prohibited Word-The Plague-Confidential-Duelling Stories-A Difficult Evening-Kafka's House

    Detailed coverage of where to stay and eat. The depth of information and quality of research make this book the best guide for the independent cultural traveller as well as for all students of art history, architecture and Italian culture. Ideal as an on-site guide as well as a desk resource. With maps and plans.

    Castles is a collection of stunning photographs of some of the many different types of castle throughout the ages, highlighting some of the best surviving examples from across the globe.

    This book is a very personal celebration of the foods and traditions of this Italian culinary authority and award-winning author. The classic cucina of Italy is represented here by 125 recipes prepared by Bugialli. We are offered an extensive and delicious menu...vegetables, pasta, fish, meat, poultry, game, wine, cheese, fruits, and desserts...including such dishes as Guinea Hen with Polenta, Trout with Black Truffles, Risotto with Zucchini Blossoms, Green Tomato Spaghetti, and Chocolate-Stuffed Pears. In a charming and informative text, Bugialli shares anecdotes about each of his recipes and about the growing, harvesting, and preparation of the ingredients. The exceptional full-color photos were taken by veteran photographer John Dominis. The dishes are set against the architecture and landscapes of Italy, to tie together history, culture, and cuisine.

    Five years later to the day, he returned to the city after the Italians had been driven out by African, French & British forces. This book recounts the military history of those years, describing the initial invasion & the events that led to the reversal.--Book News (edited)

    Peter seeks to reclaim for central Italy an important part of its own history. Noble's thesis is at once original and controversial: that the Republic, an independent political entity, was in existence by the 730s and was not a creation of the Franks in the 750s.Noble examines the political, economic, and religious problems that impelled the central Italians--and a succession of resolute popes--to seek emancipation from the Byzantine Empire. He delineates the social structures and historical traditions that produced a distinctive political society, describes the complete governmental apparatus of the Republic, and provides a comprehensive assessment of the Franco-papal alliance.

    It thus provides a model against which the military development of other countries can be measured in terms of the composition, control and cost of armies. Above all, it redresses the imbalance whereby only the naval forces of Venice have been studied seriously. It is thus an essential contribution to an understanding of the extension and maintenance of an empire by land and sea, and of the strength in troops and fortifications that preserved Venice as the one truly independent state in sixteenth-century Italy. It also adds significantly to an understanding of the relationship between Venice and the republic's subject territories.

    Briefly traces the life and career of the Italian architect, gathers his drawings and shares his lectures and opinions on architecture.

    In this revised edition of his groundbreaking study, David Norbrook offers a clear account of the issues that engaged the passions of such leading figures as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, and John Milton, and provides introductions to a host of neglected writers.

    The book accompanies three cassettes, a grammar workbook and teacher's notes and is part of a combined BBC Radio and Television course for beginners in Italian.

    An evaluation of archaeological and other evidence which shows that religion in Roman Britain not only remained essentially Roman (despite Celtic, Oriental and Christian influences) but was personally meaningful.

    This study (the only brief introduction to Petrarch available in English) explores that modernity through a series of often conflicting but always interlocking images of himself which Petrarch projects in his writings; the traveller and intellectual deeply interested in the writings of antiquity; the man of action and contemplative; and the poet laureate and moralist.