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Free Download Petra Reski, "The Honored Society: A Portrait of Italy's Most Powerful Mafia"
English | 2013 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 1568589735 | EPUB | 1,3 mb
In the early hours of an August 2007 morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg, Germany; in less than five minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both the victims and the assassins were members of the 'Ndrangheta crime organization. Calabria's Mafia had brazenly shown its savage influence outside Italy for the first time.

Free Download The French Descent into Renaissance Italy, 1494-1495: Antecedents and Effects By David Abulafia
1995 | 512 Pages | ISBN: 0860785505 | PDF | 34 MB
The French invasion of Italy under Charles VIII in 1494-95 has long been seen as inaugurating a new and wretched era in Italian history. The present volume, the work of an international team of contributors, seeks to question that assumption by focusing anew on the intricate politics of Renaissance Italy and the long history of Angevin attempts to impose their rule in southern Italy. It was later invasions, it is argued, that did most to reshape the politics of the Italian peninsula. These studies also look at social and economic effects of the French invasion, as well as its cultural aspects, not least the impact of Renaissance culture in France itself. Combining survey papers and research articles, this volume presents a new introduction to the history of late 15th-century Italy. The appendix, listing the Ilardi collection of microfilms, will also provide an invaluable guide to the diplomatic history of the era.

Free Download Italy's Paradise: A History of Tuscany by Alistair Moffat
English | April 4th, 2024 | ISBN: 1780278764 | 382 pages | True EPUB | 1.16 MB
A delicious trip through the geography, history and culture of the region' - Sunday Telegraph

Free Download Frances Mayes, "Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy"
English | 1997 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 0767900383, 0786214325 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
#1NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER * Thebelovedmemoir of self-discovery set againstthe spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lane-now in a twentieth-anniversary edition featuring a new afterword

Free Download The Italians before Italy : conflict and competition in the Mediterranean By Bartlett, Kenneth R
2007 | 181 Pages | ISBN: 1598033484 | PDF | 1 MB
"This course traces the development of the Italian city-states of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, showing how the modern nation of Italy was forged out of the rivalries, allegiances, and traditions of a vibrant and diverse people"--✅Publisher's web site.

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by Alessandro Launaro;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 8888570365 | 281 pages | True PDF EPUB | 95.85 MB

Free Download Late Roman Italy: Imperium to Regnum
Jeroen Wijnendaele
English | 2023 | ISBN: 139951802X | 521 Pages | True PDF | 15.3 MB

Free Download Languages of Power in Italy (1300-1600) By Daniel Bornstein, Laura Gaffuri, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
2017 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 2503540384 | PDF | 2 MB
The essays in this collection explore the languages - artistic, symbolic, and ritual, as well as written and spoken - in which power was articulated, challenged, contested, and defended in Italian cities and courts, villages, and countryside, between 1300 and 1600. Topics addressed include court ceremonial, gossip and insult, the performance of sanctity and public devotions, the appropriation and reuse of imagery, and the calculated invocation (and sometimes undermining) of authoritative models and figures. The collection balances a broad geographic and chronological range with a tight thematic focus, allowing the individual contributions to engage in vigorous and fruitful debate with one another even as they speak to some of the central issues in current scholarship. The authors recognize that every institutional action is, in its context, a political act, and that no institution operates disinterestedly. At the same time, they insist on the inadequacy of traditional models, whether Marxian or Weberian, as the complex realities of the early modern state pose tough problems for any narrative of modernization, rationalization, and centralization.

Free Download Eric Cochrane, "Italy, 1530-1630"
English | 2014 | pages: 340 | ISBN: 0582483646, 1138181242, 0582491444 | PDF | 29,5 mb
This book covers what is, for many English-speaking readers, one of the most obscure periods of Italian history. The common impression is of political absolutism, rural re-feudalization, economic crisis, religious repression and cultural decline. The author sets about correcting this inaccurate impression and bringing the period to life.