Free Download Fodor's Essential Italy By Fodor's
2011 | 648 Pages | ISBN: 1400004705 | EPUB | 55 MB
Get inspired and plan your next trip with Fodor?s ebook travel guide to Essential Italy (including Rome, Florence, Venice, and highlights in between). Intelligent Planning:? Discover all of the essential, up-to-date travel insights you expect in a Fodor?s guide, including Fodor?s Choice dining and lodging, top experiences and attractions, and suggested itineraries. Easy Navigation for E-Readers:? Whether you?re reading this ebook from start to finish or jumping from chapter to chapter as you develop your itinerary, Fodor?s makes it easy to find the information you need with a single touch. In addition to a traditional main table of contents for the ebook, each chapter opens with its own table of contents, making it easy to browse. Full-Color Photos and Maps:? It?s hard not to fall in love with Italy as you flip through a vivid full-color photo album. Explore the layout of city centers and popular neighborhoods with easy-to-read full-color maps. Plus, get an overview of Italian geography with the convenient atlas at the end of the ebook. Bonus Reading for the Love of Italy:? In addition to the quintessential travel tips you expect in a Fodor?s guide, we?ve included four excerpts from exceptional books about Italy. Immerse yourself in Italy with cultural insights from these top-selling authors:? Frances Mayes (EVERY DAY IN TUSCANY)Beppe Severgnini (LA BELLA FIGURA)Joseph Bastianich and David Lynch (VINO ITALIANO William Murray (CITY OF THE SOUL)What?s Covered? Get to Know Essential Italy:?Rome, Italy?s capital, is one of the great cities of Europe. It?s a large, contemporary metropolis, yet there?s no other place on earth where you?ll encounter such powerful evocations of a long and spectacular past, from the Colosseum to the dome of St. Peter's. Umbria, north of Rome, is a region of rolling hills topped by attractive old towns, including Orvieto, Spoleto, Perugia, and Assisi, each with its own rich history and art treasures. Tuscany is home to Florence, which was at the center of the Renaissance and offers a mind-boggling abundance of art treasures. Other Tuscan cities include Siena, once Florence?s main rival; San Gimignano, famous for its 15th-century tower; and Voltera, which dates to the Etruscan times. Between Florence and Venice is Emilia-Romagna, home to many of Italy?s signature foods. Bologna is a significant cultural center, and the mosaics of Ravenna are glittering Byzantine treasures. Next door in the Veneto is Venice, one of the world?s most novel cities, with canals where streets should be and an atmosphere of faded splendor that defines the word decadent. The plains west of Venice hold three of northern Italy?s most appealing midsize cities: Padua, Vicenza, and Verona. Note:? This ebook edition is adapted from Fodor?s Essential Italy, 3rd Edition but differs in some content.? Additionally, the ebook edition includes photographs and maps that will appear on black-and-white devices but are optimized for devices that support full-color images.

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English | ISBN: 1640970703 | 2018 | 880 pages | EPUB | 207 MB
Written by locals, Fodor's Essential Italy annual travel guidebook offers expert advice and insider tips for all tastes and budgets. Complete with detailed maps and concise descriptions, this travel guide will help you plan your trip with ease and make the most out of their visit to Italy. Join Fodor's in exploring one of the most exciting and delicious countries in Europe.

Free Download Etruscan Italy: Etruscan Influences on the Civilizations of Italy from Antiquity to the Modern Era By John Franklin Hall
1997 | 411 Pages | ISBN: 0842523340 | PDF | 49 MB
Presents an overview of Etruscan history, culture, and politics.

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English | 2000 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 076790284X, 0767902831 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1New York TimesbestsellerUnder the Tuscan Sunmade the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites readers back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy.

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English | March 5th, 2024 | ISBN: 176064367X | 256 pages | True EPUB | 2.80 MB
Embark on a captivating journey through 3000 years of Italy's rich history

Free Download The Politics of Sacrifice: Remembering Italy's Rogo di Primavalle by Amy King
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 273 Pages | ISBN : 3031455495 | 21.3 MB
This book offers an original and comprehensive study of the memory of the Rogo di Primavalle, a fatal arson attack on the home of a far-right family on 16 April 1973. Perpetrated by members of the militant left group Potere Operaio, this was the first attack on a domestic space during Italy's Years of Lead. Through analysis of media coverage, books, and social media; observation of commemoration ceremonies; visits to sites of memory; and oral history interviews conducted by the author, The Politics of Sacrifice argues that memory of the Rogo di Primavalle has been instrumentalised by neo-fascist groups over the past 50 years. Drawing on contemporary theoretical debates relating to public and private memories, King connects the construction of a narrative of sacrifice to challenges faced by the institutional far right from the time of the Movimento Sociale Italiano in the 1970s, Alleanza Nazionale in the mid-1990s, and Fratelli d'Italia today. With the far right on the rise in Italy and abroad, the book identifies the characteristics of remembering that define far-right memory culture and investigates the role of memory in building support for the far right over time.

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English | ISBN: 1618112449 | 2013 | 240 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Since arriving in Rome more than 2,000 years ago, the Jewish communities of Italy have retained their identity over millennia. This book traces the foundations of their community, focusing on their economic, intellectual, and social lives as they moved between northern and southern Italy. Over the centuries these localized Italian groups were reinforced with the arrival of German, Provencal, Sephardic, and―most recently―Ashkenazi and Middle Eastern Jews. Surviving religious persecution, ghetto-ization, and the Holocaust, the Jews contributed to Italian society when they could. Supplemented by maps, illustrations, sidebars, and primary sources, this book is a scholarly yet popular overview of a minority group that is proud to be Italian and equally proud to be Jewish.

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English | November 7, 2023 | ISBN: 1641715731 | 528 pages | MOBI | 101 Mb
Hit Italy's can't-miss art, sights, and bites in two weeks or less with Rick Steves Best of Italy!Strategic advice from Rick Steves on what's worth your time and moneyTwo-day itineraries covering Venice, the Cinque Terre, Florence, the Hill Towns of Central Italy, Rome, Naples, Sorrento, and the Amalfi CoastRick's tips for beating the crowds, skipping lines, and avoiding tourist trapsThe best local culture, flavors, and more, including insightful walks through museums, historic sights, and atmospheric neighborhoodsTrip planning strategies like how to link destinations and design your itinerary, what to pack, where to stay, and how to get aroundOver 500 full-color pages with detailed maps and vibrant photos throughoutSuggestions for day trips to Milan, Lake Como, Pisa, Verona, and PaduaExperience Italy's Old World romance and New World excitement for yourself with Rick Steves Best of Italy!

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English | ISBN: 1557536554 | 2012 | 300 pages | EPUB | 1005 KB
In recent years, Italian cinema has experienced a quiet revolution: the proliferation of films by women. But their thought-provoking work has not yet received the attention it deserves. Reframing Italy fills this gap. The book introduces readers to films and documentaries by recognized women directors such as Cristina Comencini, Wilma Labate, Alina Marazzi, Antonietta De Lillo, Marina Spada, and Francesca Comencini, as well as to filmmakers whose work has so far been undeservedly ignored. Through a thematically based analysis supported by case studies, Luciano and Scarparo argue that Italian women filmmakers, while not overtly feminist, are producing work that increasingly foregrounds female subjectivity from a variety of social, political, and cultural positions. This book, with its accompanying video interviews, explores the filmmakers' challenging relationship with a highly patriarchal cinema industry. The incisive readings of individual films demonstrate how women's rich cinematic production reframes the aesthetic of their cinematic fathers, re-positions relationships between mothers and daughters, functions as a space for remembering women's (hi)stories, and highlights pressing social issues such as immigration and workplace discrimination. This original and timely study makes an invaluable contribution to film studies and to the study of gender and culture in the early twenty-first century.

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English | ISBN: 0198885938 | 2024 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 715 KB + 2 MB
While humanists agreed on identifying the main requirement of the historical genre with truthfulness, they disagreed on their notions of historical truth. Some authors equated historical truth with verisimilitude, thus harmonizing the quest for truth with other ingredients of their histories, such as their political utility and rhetorical aptness. Others, instead, rejected the notion of verisimilitude, identifying historical truth with factuality. Accordingly, they sought to produce bare and exhaustive accounts of all the things that pertained to their historical explorations, often resorting to innovative disciplines, such as archeology, philology, and the history of institutions. The humanist historiographical debate is especially significant because the notion of verisimilitude encompassed crucial elements required for the development of methods of critical assessment. By perceiving verisimilitude and factuality as irreconcilable, Quattrocento humanists reached a critical impasse―those who were interested in factual truth mostly lacked the means to ascertain it, while those that developed embryonic notions of historical criticism were not eminently concerned with the factual account of the past. This critical weakness exposed humanists to considerable risks, including that of accepting non-verisimilar historical forgeries passed off as factual. Such forgeries eventually served as a testing ground for sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scholars, who sought to restore factual truth by means of critical criteria grounded in verisimilitude, thus overcoming the humanist impasse.