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By Douglas Preston, Mario Spezi

"With a brand new afterword at the stunning hyperlink to the Amanda Knox case"--Cover.

By Italo Calvino

In 1482, the Florentine humanist and statesman Francesco Berlinghieri produced the Geographia, a e-book of over 100 folio leaves describing the realm in Italian verse, encouraged through the traditional Greek geography of Ptolemy. The poem, divided into seven books (one for every day of the week the writer “travels” the recognized world), is interleaved with lavishly engraved maps to accompany readers in this journey.

Sean Roberts demonstrates that the Geographia represents the instant of transition among printing and manuscript tradition, whereas forming a severe base for the increase of contemporary cartography. concurrently, using the Geographia as a diplomatic reward from Florence to the Ottoman Empire tells one other tale. This alternate expands our realizing of Mediterranean politics, ecu perceptions of the Ottomans, and Ottoman curiosity in mapping and print. The envoy to the Sultan represented the aspirations of the Florentine kingdom, which selected to not bestow another hugely valued stable, reminiscent of the city’s well known textiles, yet as a substitute the simplest instance of what Florentine visible, fabric, and highbrow tradition needed to offer.

By Sam Hilt

"Turning Tuscan" is a narrative approximately what it is wish to fall in love with Tuscany on your mid-life years, to shop for a house there, to alter round your paintings, and, eventually, to depart the San Francisco Bay zone and circulation together with your spouse and kids to a tiny Tuscan village. that is the first half. the second one half attempts to proportion what it really is like residing the following as soon as you might have made the circulation: studying the language, turning into a part of a village group, operating a travel corporation, knowing the political scene, getting a web connection, having fun with Renaissance paintings, spending time within the health facility, appreciating the paperwork, and enduring customer support on the telephone corporation. it's been written in a manner that would make you are feeling like an venerated visitor invited into the cockpit as we move from the USA to Tuscany and organize store. And, if you are brooding about what sort of loopy individual does one of these factor, and no matter if you're one, i attempt to percentage adequate own historical past and aspect approximately our lives on each side of the sea to meet your interest. As a foreigner who enters into one other tradition, there's a restricted window of time to be had to you to determine this stuff and to aim to list them ultimately. you need to turn into Italian sufficient to play the sport, yet now not so Italian but that all of it turns into invisible. for those who wait too lengthy, you're now not able to replicate or touch upon cultural changes simply because what everyone is doing turns out absolutely general to you. Ripeness is all, because the poet stated, and confidently i have controlled to seize for you a number of the subtler points of residing right here that commute photographs, even excessive answer ones, can by no means display.

By Claudio Pavone, David Broder

A Civil struggle is a historical past of the wartime Italian Resistance, stated through a historian who, as a tender guy, took half within the fight opposed to Mussolini’s fascist Republic. on the grounds that its ebook in Italy, Claudio Pavone’s masterwork has develop into crucial to somebody trying to comprehend this era and its carrying on with value for the nation’s identity.

Pavone casts a sober eye on his protagonists’ moral and ideological motivations. He uncovers a multilayered clash, within which classification antagonisms, patriotism and political beliefs all performed an element. a transparent figuring out of this complexity permits him to give an explanation for many info of the post-war transition, in addition to the legacy of the Resistance for contemporary Italy. as well as being a enormous paintings of scholarship, A Civil War is a folks heritage, shooting occasions, personalities and attitudes that have been at the verge of slipping completely out of recollection to the detriment of Italy’s realizing of itself and its past.

By Niccolò Machiavelli

By Rick Steves