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Across the River and into the Treesby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684825538 (0-684-82553-8)
Softcover, Scribner
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Alibiby Joseph KanonISBN 080507886X (0-8050-7886-X)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Annotated Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, A. L. RowseISBN 0681322608 (0-681-32260-8)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Press
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Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Artby Mary D. GarrardISBN 0691002851 (0-691-00285-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascismby Alexander StilleISBN 0671671529 (0-671-67152-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Cliffscomplete Julius Caesarby Sidney Lamb, Diana SweeneyISBN 076458569X (0-7645-8569-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cliffscomplete Julius Caesar'Book summary:In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.[via]CliffsComplete Julius Caesar offers insight and information into a work that's rich both dramatically and thematically. Every generation since Shakespeare's time has been able to identify with some political aspect of the play.
Discover what happens to Rome's highly ambitious leader and to those who conspire to remove him from the ranks and save valuable studying time all at once. Enhance your reading of Julius Caesar with these additional features:
- A summary and insightful commentary for each chapter
- Bibliography and historical background on the author, William Shakespeare
- A look at Early Modern England intellectual, religious, political, and social context
- Coverage of Shakespeare's source and the play's performance history
- A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
- Review questions, a quiz, discussion guide, and activity ideas
- A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Web sites
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Corinne, or Italyby Madame De StaelISBN 0813512077 (0-8135-1207-7)
Hardcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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Corinne, Or, Italyby Germaine De StaelISBN 0813512085 (0-8135-1208-5)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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The Crime of Galileoby Giorgio De SantillanaISBN 0809436272 (0-8094-3627-2)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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Danteby R. W. B. LewisISBN 0670899097 (0-670-89909-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Death in Venice and Other Storiesby Thomas Mann, Daniel JohnsonISBN 0679406662 (0-679-40666-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Death in Venice and Other Talesby Joachim Neugroschel, Thomas MannISBN 0670874248 (0-670-87424-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Death in Venice : And Seven Other Storiesby Thomas Mann, H.T. Lowe-PorterISBN 0679722068 (0-679-72206-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Dk Eyewitness Florence & Tuscanyby Dorling KindersleyISBN 0756615402 (0-7566-1540-2)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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Eating in Italy: A Travelers Guide to the Gastronomic Pleasures of Northern Italyby Faith Echtermeyer, Faith Heller WillingerISBN 0688068839 (0-688-06883-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Eating in Italy: A Travelers Guide to the Gastronomic Pleasures of Northern Italyby Faith Heller Willinger, Faith EchtermeyerISBN 0688146147 (0-688-14614-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Etruscansby Michael GrantISBN 0684167247 (0-684-16724-7)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Finding Italian Roots: The Complete Guide to Americansby John Philip CollettaISBN 0806317418 (0-8063-1741-8)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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Florenceby Knopf Guides StaffISBN 0679749152 (0-679-74915-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Fodor's Citypack Rome's Bestby Fodor'sISBN 0679004459 (0-679-00445-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Fodor's Romeby Tim JepsonISBN 0679029613 (0-679-02961-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Hill Townsby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 0816158487 (0-8161-5848-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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How to Travel With a Salmon and Other Essaysby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 0749397098 (0-7493-9709-8)
Softcover, Minerva Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Travel With a Salmon and Other Essays'Book summary:By the author of "The Name of the Rose", this collection of essays offers advice on a wide range of unusual subjects - how to recognize a porno film, how to take an intelligent holiday, how not to talk about football, how to protect oneself from widows - as well as discussing weightier matters of history, politics, economics, literature and philosophy, in such pieces as "On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1" and "Three Owls on a Chest of Drawers". [via]
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Inkheartby Cornelia Funke, Anthea BellISBN 0786280417 (0-7862-8041-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inkheart'Book summary:Some books are destined to be lifelong treasured possessions. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, the bestselling German author of The Thief Lord, could easily lay claim to being such a book. It is a meaty, magical adventure that oozes a passion for books and the awesome power of words on a page, written by an author who clearly adores stories. Every chapter is introduced by tempting quotations from classic novels that whet your appetite for more and help underline the terrific heritage of children's literature that Inkheart is added to.
Meggie is the daughter of a revered bookbinder called Mo whose peaceful existence is one night shattered by the arrival of Dustfinger--a shadowy man with a mysterious link to Mo's past. Mo and Meggie are soon on the move, running from something that threatens everything they hold dear. But the past inevitably catches up with them and Mo is forced to reveal to his daughter for the first time his terrible secret. He has the ability, or curse, to breathe life into any story he reads and make the characters come alive. Just such a character, the sinister Capricorn, is after Mo to ensure that he stays alive and is never returned to the pages from which he was sprung. And, of course, he'll stop at nothing to guarantee success.
Inkheart is a treat and echoes of its many colourful characters, nail-biting drama and unrelenting invention will stay with the reader for a long time. It's also a novel for people who really love books. (Recommended for ages 10 and over.) --John McLay [via]
The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italyby Peter BurkeISBN 0691006784 (0-691-00678-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Italy and Its Discontents: Family, Civil Society, State 1980-2001by Paul GinsborgISBN 0713995378 (0-7139-9537-8)
Hardcover, Allen Lane the Penguin Press
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Julius CaesarISBN 0789160838 (0-7891-6083-8)
Softcover, Perfection Learning
Find This BookBook summary:In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings--"Beware the ides of March"--and of moving public oratory "Friends, Romans, countrymen!" Ironies abound and most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is to learn that his idealistic motives for joining the conspiracy against a would-be dictator are not enough to sustain the movement once Caesar is dead. [via]
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Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0671722719 (0-671-72271-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julius Caesar'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most political plays, Julius Caesar continued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed in Titus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later play Antony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Julius Caesar has been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton [via]
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortaraby David I. KertzerISBN 0679768173 (0-679-76817-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara : The Extraordinary Story of How a Jewish Child, Made a Prisoner of the Vatican in 1858, Ended the Rule of the Popes in Italyby David I. KertzerISBN 0679450319 (0-679-45031-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Leonardo Da Vinciby Kenneth ClarkISBN 0670809101 (0-670-80910-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisiby Louise Bachelder, Abby Langdon AlgerISBN 0802725260 (0-8027-2526-0)
Softcover, Walker Large Print
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Machiavelli: The Chief Works and Othersby Allan GilbertISBN 0822309319 (0-8223-0931-9)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Machiavelli: The Chief Works and Others'Book summary:Allan Gilbert is unquestionably the most accurate and reliable translator of Machiavelli into English; the publication of this edition is an altogether happy occasion. Students of the history of political thought owe a particular debt of gratitude to Allan Gilbert. Dante Germino, The Journal of Politics[via]A most remarkable achievement. Felix Gilbert, Renaissance Quarterly
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The Magicians of Capronaby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 068816613X (0-688-16613-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magicians of Caprona'Book summary:Tonino is the only person in the famous Montana household who wasn't born with an instinct for creating spells, but he has other gifts.His ability to communicate with cats just might help defend the city of Caprona against a mysterious enchanter -- but only if Tonino can learn to cooperate with a girl from the hated Petrocchi family of spell-makers. [via]
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The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmonyby Roberto Calasso, Tim ParksISBN 0679733485 (0-679-73348-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricciby Jonathan D. SpenceISBN 0670468304 (0-670-46830-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci'Book summary:Matteo Ricci (1552-1616), an Italian Jesuit, entered China in 1583 to spread Catholicism in the largely Confucian country. In order to make a persuasive argument for the educated Chinese to abandon their traditional faith for the new one he was carrying, Ricci realized that he would have to prove the general superiority of Western culture. He did so by teaching young Confucian scholars tricks to increase their memory skills--an important advantage in a nation with countless laws and rituals that had to be learned by heart. Ricci attracted numerous students with this method; more important, Ricci came to have a sympathetic understanding for China that he communicated to Rome, and thence to the European nations at large. Spence's portrait of Ricci is a gem of historical writing. --Gregory MacNamee [via]
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The Metamorphosesby Ovid, Frank Justus MillerISBN 0674990463 (0-674-99046-3)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses'Book summary:Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life. He died in exile.
Ovid's main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration to artists and poets including Chaucer and Shakespeare; the Fasti, a poetic treatment of the Roman year of which Ovid finished only half; the Amores, love poems; the Ars Amatoria, not moral but clever and in parts beautiful; Heroides, fictitious love letters by legendary women to absent husbands; and the dismal works written in exile: the Tristia, appeals to persons including his wife and also the emperor; and similar Epistulae ex Ponto. Poetry came naturally to Ovid, who at his best is lively, graphic and lucid.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ovid is in six volumes.
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The Metamorphoses of Ovidby David R. Slavitt, OvidISBN 0801847982 (0-8018-4798-2)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses of Ovid'Book summary:First published in 8 A.D. when he was 52, Ovid's epic poem contains profoundly entertaining tales of Adonis, Midas, Apollo, Icarus, and many others. (Poetry) [via]
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Michelangelo: Paintings, Sculpture, Architectureby Ludwig Goldscheider, Michelangelo BuonarrotiISBN 0714832960 (0-7148-3296-0)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Much Ado About Nothingby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0671722808 (0-671-72280-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Much Ado about Nothing'Book summary:Folger Shakespeare Library The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition includes: Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play Scene-by-scene plot summaries A key to famous lines and phrases An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books Essay by Gail Kern Paster The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. [via]
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Niccolo Risingby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0718127064 (0-7181-2706-4)
Hardcover, M. Joseph
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Niccolo Rising'Book summary:Set against a 15th-century background, this story begins the saga of Nicholas Vanderpoele, the dyer's apprentice from Flanders who plays dangerous games for the highest stakes with the greatest powers in Europe during the time of the War of the Roses and the Fall of Constantinople. [via]
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Ovid's Metamorphosesby Ovid, William S. AndersonISBN 0806114568 (0-8061-1456-8)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ovid's Metamorphoses'Book summary:One of the most influential and popular works in all literature, Ovids Metamorphoses is a weaving-together of classical myths, extending in time from the creation of the world to the death of Julius Caesar. This volume provides the Latin text of the first five books of the poem and the most detailed commentary available in English for these books.[via]In his introduction to the volume, editor William S. Anderson provides essential background information, discussing Ovids life, the reception of the Metamorphoses during Ovids day and after, and the poems central issues. The Latin text of the five books is Andersons own edition, based on years of study of the surviving manuscripts. In the extensive notes that follow the text, Anderson offers both useful summaries of the stories and detailed line-by-line comments.
Unlike other epic poems, which concern wars and heroism, the Metamorphoses centers on ordinary human beings, women as well as men, who live in a world of continuous change. The first five books, which include such well-known stories as Apollo and Daphane, Diana and Actaeon, and Narcissus and Echo, deal especially with the relationship between human beings and the gods. Arrogant and lustful, but all-powerful, the gods of Ovids universe selfishly pursue their own pleasures, frequently at the expense of their human targets. Yet these gods escape unscathed, while the humans, unjustly, are punished. Helpless to defend themselves, they are changed into animal or nonhuman forms.
A resource for students and scholars of Latin, this volume enhances understanding and enjoyment of Ovids changeable poem about our changeable existence.
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Ovid's Metamorphosesby Arthur GoldingISBN 0801870607 (0-8018-7060-7)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ovid's Metamorphoses'Book summary:This landmark translation of Ovid was acclaimed by Ezra Pound as "the most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's)". Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transformedoften by loveinto flowers, trees, stones, and stars. Golding's robustly vernacular version was the first major English translation and decisively influenced Shakespeare, Spenser, and the character of English Renaissance writing.
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Ovid's Metamorphoses: Books 1-5by Ovid, William S. AndersonISBN 0806128453 (0-8061-2845-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologized, and Represented in Figuresby Ovid, George SandysISBN 0803207182 (0-8032-0718-2)
Hardcover, University of Nebraska Press
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The Passionby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0802135226 (0-8021-3522-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Passion'Book summary:In 1985 Jeanette Winterson won the Whitbread Award for best first fiction for the semi-autobiographical Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, an often wry exploration of lesbian possibility bumping up against evangelical fanaticism. She was 25. Two years later, The Passion, her third novel, appeared, the fantastical tale of Henri--Napoleon's cook--and Villanelle, a Venetian gondolier's daughter who has webbed feet (previously an all-male attribute), works as a croupier, picks pockets, cross-dresses, and literally loses her heart to a beautiful woman. Written in a lyrical and jolting combination of fairy tale diction and rhythm and the staccato, the book would be a risky proposition in lesser hands. Winterson has said that she wanted to look at people's need to worship and examine what happens to young men in militaristic societies. The question was, how to do so without being polemical and didactic? Only she could have come up with such an exquisite answer. In the end, Henri, incarcerated on an island of madmen, becomes aware that his passion, "even though she could never return it, showed me the difference between inventing a lover and falling in love. The one is about you, the other about someone else." [via]
Prison Lettersby Antonio Gramsci, Hamish HendersonISBN 074531130X (0-7453-1130-X)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Private Partsby Howard SternISBN 0671009443 (0-671-00944-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Private Parts'Book summary:The #1 bestseller and fastest selling autobiography of all time, "Private Parts, " will be released on March 14 as a major motion picture from Paramount Pictures and Rysher Entertainment. This is the event Stern's millions of fans have been waiting for. Yes, The King of All Media is back, letting it all hang out in his outrageous new movie. And here is the book that tracks the odyssey. In "Private Parts" Stern spills his life story, from his dysfunctional beginnings to his unlikely, turbulent rise to super stardom. In the process, he shares his views on everything from foreign policy to fatherhood and Madonna to masturbation, with lots of lesbians in between. No matter whose side you're on -- Cher's "I hate him. He's just a creep, " or Stallone's "I love him. I really love him" -- Stern's brutally frank "Don't ask, I'll tell" tome spares no group or institution.
Studded throughout with Howard's favorite photos, pickings from the Hate-Mailbag and illustrations, this is the original, in-your-face manifesto complete with movie art that will once again have fans storming the bookstores...and everyone else running for cover. [via]
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Rome of the Caesarsby Leonaido B. DalmasoISBN 0800219368 (0-8002-1936-8)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis
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The Secret Supperby Alberto Manguel, Javier SierraISBN 0743287649 (0-7432-8764-9)
Hardcover, Atria Books
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The Secret Supperby Javier Sierra, Alberto ManguelISBN 0743287657 (0-7432-8765-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Supper'Book summary:The Da Vinci juggernaut rolls on, this time in the capable hands of a bestselling author in the Spanish-speaking world. The Secret Supper has been ably translated by Alberto Manguel, author of A History of Reading, that delightful revelation that squiggles on a page are words, and words make stories. Set in 1497 Milan, at the time of the painting of the Cenacolo, or The Last Supper, in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Sierra has created a tale of religious fanaticism, betrayal, murder, Church politics, artistic chicanery and mystery to confound the reader.
Fra Agostino Leyre, a Papal Inquisitor, is sent to Milan to confirm--or not--the messages of the "Soothsayer," who alleges that Leonardo Da Vinci is a heretic and has hidden heretical messages in his painting of The Last Supper. Leonardo is a figure larger than life, literally. A blue-eyed, tall, handsome man, always dressed in white, he is surrounded by faithful students and friends who are his acolytes. His brilliant mind, ranging over a multitude of ideas, has gained him a reputation for "hiding heterodox ideas in paintings apparently pious."
What Father Agostino follows is a labyrinthine path through alliances and rivalries, differences of opinion about Leonardo and a discussion of the heresy of the Cathars. They are a fascinating sect, more extra-Christianity than Christian heretics. Their practices are based on a belief that certain deprivations--primarily food and sex--will purify and make them worthy. Sierra is a very fine guide, taking the reader through palaces and monasteries rife with intrigue and typical of the flowering of intellect that came after the Dark Ages. It is a time when "Suddenly, from one day to the next, Plato's Greece, Cleopatra's Egypt and even the extravagant curiosities of the Chinese Empire that Marco Polo discovered seemed to deserve greater praise than our own Scriptural stories." Dangerous for the incumbency.
A compelling case is made that Leonardo's heretical beliefs are there for all to see in The Last Supper, if only we know how to find them. Sierra gives us the key--and keeps the suspense going right up to the end of the book. It isn't necessary to believe any of it, or even care if it's true, to enjoy this pilgrimage through another time and place. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Shakespeare's Ovid: Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphosesby Ovid, Arthur Golding, W.H.D. RouseISBN 0809300621 (0-8093-0062-1)
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Some Bitter Tasteby Magdalen NabbISBN 0786254181 (0-7862-5418-1)
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The Splendid Table: Recipes from Emilia-Romagna, the Heartland of Northern Italian Foodby Lynne Rossetto KasperISBN 0688089631 (0-688-08963-1)
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The Stars Disposeby Michaela RoessnerISBN 0812550145 (0-8125-5014-5)
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That Awful Mess on Via Merulanaby Carlo Emilio Gadda, William WeaverISBN 0704334828 (0-7043-3482-8)
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Thus Was Adonis Murderedby Sarah CaudwellISBN 0684172941 (0-684-17294-1)
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Tony's Breadby Tomie De PaolaISBN 0698113713 (0-698-11371-3)
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Too Much Tuscan Sun: Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guideby Robert Rodi, Dario CastagnoISBN 0762736704 (0-7627-3670-4)
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0743482743 (0-7434-8274-3)
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Travels Through France and Italyby Tobias Smollett, Osbert SitwellISBN 0810160536 (0-8101-6053-6)
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Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance Conventby Mary LavenISBN 0670896357 (0-670-89635-7)
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William Shakespeare's Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Michael SpringISBN 0812034236 (0-8120-3423-6)
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Within Tuscanyby Matthew SpenderISBN 0670838365 (0-670-83836-5)
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A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Travellerby Frances MayesISBN 0767910060 (0-7679-1006-0)
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