Vespa. Italian style for the world

With over sixteen million units manufactured, it is a familiar sight in every corner of the globe, and is part and parcel of the urban landscape. Its birth, however, dates back to 1945 as the revolutionary idea of a car with two wheels, incorporating a series of astonishing features clearly borrowed from aeronautics. A perfect combination of function, production rationalization and shapely elegance, the Vespa very soon began to make its mark as one of the signs of our times.

Filippo Lippi

Filippo Lippi's life and works are recalled in this skilfully reasoned biography so as to produce a complex, fascinating image of the great painter and his personal adventurous experiences. Filippo Lippi’s masterpieces, already highly praised by his contemporaries, once decorated the altars of the most important churches and are now the pride of important galleries, first of all the Uffizi and the Palatine Gallery in Palazzo Pitti, just as even today Prato and Spoleto Cathedrals are proud of the magnificent fresco cycles by Lippi on their walls. This pocket size guide is easy to read and contains beautiful images of some of Lippi's most famous works. Size: 6.75" x 4.5"

Titian

This third book in the Pocket Profile series provides a biography of one of the greatest pictoral interpreters of the Italian Renaissance, Titian. The study of an ingenious artist and his contributions to use of color in Renaissance painting. Lucia Toso, a Venetian art historian who deeply knows Venetian painting offers this profile of a complex and restless man, whose images have come to be synonymous with the Venetian school. This pocket sized guide is the perfect travel tool to provide background for your visits to the Accademia in Venice and the Uffizi in Florence. Size: 6.75" x 4.5"

The Medici

The Golden Age of Collecting Giovanni di Bicci, Cosimo the Elder, Piero the Gouty, Lorenzo the Magnificent... A brief critical study and biography of each, along with a description of each single artistic commission, illustrated by a rich and well-documented collection of photographs. The history of the extraordinary success of the Medici family through the snapshots of their components. The history of Florence among the folds of the stories of its protagonists. This pocket size book is the perfect primer for Medici Florence. Size: 6.75" x 4.5"

La Moda in Italia: Il Novecento

Fashion in Italia: The 20th Century, a richly illustrated 247-page pocket-sized digest that traces the history of 20th century Italian fashion with both color and black and white photographs. Chronicling the century decade by decade, all of the big names are here with accompanying text in Italian and English. A must for fashion mavens. Pages: 247 Size: 7" x 4.75"

Italy by Bike

From the Touring Club of Italy This new guide describes 105 itineraries covering all of Italy and cut out for both beginners as well as more expert cyclists. Each route has an average length of 30/50 miles that can be covered within one day, and is accompanied by color pictures, technical details (length, difference in heights, suggested season), description of the landscape, historical and artistic outlines, as well as other useful information and a schematic cartography showing the area and the route. Pages: 239 Size: 8.75" x 5.5"

100 Places In Italy Every Woman Should Go

100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go by Susan Van Allen Italy and the feminine mystique go happily hand in hand. Discover the feminine side of Italia: elegance, romance, passion and fun. All the ingredients to live out an Audrey Hepburn-like Italian holiday are there - if you know where to find them. 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go is one of the most innovative and fascinating travel guides dedicated to Italy. You won't find in it any reference to such overt symbols of virility as Rome's Colosseum or the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Instead, author Susan Van Allen focused her passion for the Bel Paese on selecting destinations for the body and the mind that will suit and fulfill women's search for beauty, romance and relaxation. Inspired by what the author calls the "overwhelming feminine appeal of Italy," the books reflects her falling in love at first sight with a country where "Venus and Maria shared center stage." Together with the descriptions of fascinating shops, alluring beaches and beauty spas, the guide is also driven by places where female celebrities left their mark. Such as Villa Cimbrone in Ravello, where Greta Garbo stayed in 1939 spending, according to the garden plaque, "hours of secret happiness." Or Siena, recommended here not for its celebrated Palio, but for its native Saint Catherine's history and lore. The book fills a gap on the shelves at the right time. No ordinary directory of addresses, 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go is an authentic portrait of Italy from the charmed perspective of a woman, a writer and an experienced traveler.

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Terroni

Terroni - All That Has Been Done To Ensure That The Italians of The South Became "Southerners", written by Pino Aprile is a well-documented, courageous description of what the Italians did to themselves, and why, 150 years after the Unification of Italy, the differences between North and South are more accentuated than ever. This inequality has left an indelible mark; those who believe that this was due to a purely geographical factor must now reconsider this notion, while those who hold the incorrect belief that the South of Italy is the poorer and more backward part of the country must grapple with reality. What were the real factors that created this diversity? With what awareness did they perpetrate their own ideals in order to gain more profit? Who rendered a part of Italian society so submissive and often fearful? This is a work that analyzes the socio-political changes of a nation and is not afraid to unveil all of those uncomfortable truths that even the history books have so often refused to print.