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Oxford University Press, 2006. 12mo. 170 x 110 mm., [6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches].  135 pp.  Illustrated throughout.  Stiff paper wrappers; some underlinging and notes in the text.

New York: Anchor Books, 2001. 8vo.  205 x 130 mm., [8 x 5 1/4 inches].  [14], 396 pp. Illustrated with a map of Italy.  Paperback binding. Biographies of fifty eminent Italians in the arts, sciences, and government who had an impact on the development of modern Italy and the world.

New York: Penguin Books, 1995. 8vo. 200 x 130 mm., [7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches].  xl, 600 pp. Illustrated with 23 maps.  Stiff paper wrappers. "A Work of Art -- Far nobler than mere scholarship.  Its insights are variously luminous, startling and curious.  Braudel's portrait of the planet is immensely various and vivacious.  A panaorama full of emotions, excitement, humanity, and even hope."  Jan Morris.

Biblioteca Comulane. 8vo.  240 x 165 mm., [9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches].  78 pp.  Fully illustrated with color plates.  Pictorial wrappers. Printed exhibition catalogue of books, manuscripts, and drawings from the collections of the Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati of Siena, exhibited to celebrate the visit of the Madison Council of the Library of Congress in 2011.  Rich in content and images.

Naples: Electa, for the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, 2016. 8vo.  240 x 170 mm., [9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches].  136 pp.  Illustrated throughout with color plates.  Pictorial wrappers. Guide to the collectioins on Herculaneum, the Egyptian Collection, Mosaic Collections, Greek culture in the Bay of Naples and more.

Milano: De Agostini for Biblioteca Ambrosiana, 2012. 8vo. 210 x 210 mm., [8 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches].  47 pp.  Illustrated with color reproductions.  Pictorial wrappers. History of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, beginning with its founding in the high Renaissance down to the 20th century.  Well documented overview of the library's collections, the difficulties of maintaining the library during political turmoil, and the founders and philanthropists who made it one of the great libraries in Italy.

Siena: Biblioteca Comunale, 2006. 8vo.  240 x 170 mm., [9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches].  64 pp.  Illustrated with color photographs and diagrams.  Decorative wrappers in an antique style. History of the reconstruction of the Public Library of Siena, a public works project that incorporated Renaissance buildings and the use of 15th century vaults built beneath the city to house the collections and public space of library.  An amazing project and outcome.  This copy with the name Luciano Borghi the director of the library at the time on the front free endpaper. .

New York and London: W. W. Norton & Comoany, 2011. 8vo.  245 x 165 mm., [9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches].  [10], 356 pp.  Illustrated throughout with plates and text images.  Cloth, dust jacket. National Book Award winner Stephen Greenblatt, pitches a story that combines the evolution of modern thought with the creative energy unleashed in Italy during the blossoming years of the Renaissance.  " The Swerve reveals a key moment in the history of man -- the precise moment when 'humanism' in its first sense, the quest for the grammar of our ancestors, becomes 'humanism' in our sense, the quest for meaning in our pleasures.. . . This is truly the book that puts the epic in Epicurean."  Adam Gopnik.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc., 1957. 8vo.  205 x 135 mm., [8 x 5 1/4 inches].  229 pp.,   Publisher's pictorial paper boards with black cloth spine; edges bumped and slightly chipped; wanting dust jacket. First American edition.  Reading copy of Moravia's penetrating short stories, related in the first person, by men of the Roman working class.  Roman Tales follows on the success of the Women of Rome, Moravia's break through novel depicting the lives of the women of Rome, presented in their own voices. .

Washington, Governement Printing Office: Department of the Interior Bureau of Education, 1883. 8vo. 230 x 145 mm., [9 x 5 1/2 inches].  5 pp.  Drop title, self wrappers; lightly soiled at edges. Academic prize of 5,000 Lira for the best dissertation on the use of the scientific method and the its present day practice by all the departments of science in Europe and the United States.  Maurizio Bufalini (d. 1787-1875) was a prominent member of the Royal Institute for Higher Practical Studies in Florence and a medical doctor whose research into the diagnosis and treatment of disease was his life's work.  This prize was a result of his observation that the use of the scientific method was not being utilized and he initiated a twenty year study to gather data on the practices of doctors in hospitals and private practice. See Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani  v. 14 for a information on his life and career.

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Young, 1951. 8vo. [xvi], 442 pp.  Publisher's black cloth boards, green cloth spine, label in black and gold on spine.  Dust jacket fragile, chips to head and tail of spine, some tears; secured by mylar wrapper. Second America printing.  Levi's novel, set in Rome and Naples, is based on his own experience after the War trying to reestablish himself as a writer and artist.  Recovering from the disaster that was the fascist government of Mussolini and his black shirts, Levi recounts the attempts to form a society that abandoned the past and rid the country of government of the rich, for the rich, and by the rich.  His story, set in 1946, "when the last Cabinet of 'Men of the Resistence' gave way to the first De Gaspari Government, and the hopes of a radical reform of political life were shelved. . ."  His story resonates with the impact that fascism, the war, and recovery had on the everyday person in Italian society. Carlo Levi (1902-1975), the award winning… Leer más

New York: New York Review of Books, 2001. 8vo.  235, 4 pp.  Paperback wrappers. Very good copy. Originally published in 1892 under the title Senilita, this translation by de Zoete was issued in 1932.   This is the story of a middle aged man falling in love with a much younger women, ultimately ending in tragedy.  Svevo's book about a love lost older man was ignored by the conservative Italian public in 1892 but was later recognized as an honest protrayal and psychological portrait of modern man in urban society.  It is now considered one of the masterpieces of modern Italian literature.  Includes a biography of Svevo and an appraisal of his work by the poet James Lasdun.

New York,: New York Review of Books, 2014. Small 8vo.  202 x 125 mm., [8 x 5 inches].  111 pp., plus 7 pp. ads.  Pictorial wrappers. First edition of this translation.  "Alberto Moravia's classic, startling portrait of innocence lost was written in 1942 but rejected by Fascist censors and not published until 1944, when it became a best seller and secured the author the first literary prize of his career.  Revived here in a new translation by Michael F. Moore, Agostino is poised to captivate a twenty-first century audience." .

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. Small 8 vo.  165 x 110 mm., [6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches].  xvii, 385, plus 4 pp. ads. Illustrated with 120 half tone images and 16 maps.   Original green cloth, decorated in red on upper board;, scuffed with some minor rubbing to edges and tips, front hinge cracked; missing dust jacket, part of which is pasted to the rear endpaper.  Presentation copy from Helen Rhoda Hooper to Maurice Kellogg dated May 29, 1947. Well illustrated history of Naples from its orgins to end of World War I.  Written in the form of a daily diary, Maurel's exploration of the people and monuments of the city carries the reader to nearly every street, piazza and building in Naples and provides historical context to metropolis on Mediterranean.

New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923. 8vo.  [12], 454 pp.  Original orange cloth, title-lable on upper board and spine; cloth a bit soiled, spine faded; missing dust jacket. First American edition.  Verga's last major work of fiction, originally appearing in 1888.  Lawrence writes, "Basing their judgement on the two novels, I Malavoglio and Mastro-don Gerualdo, together with the books of Sicilian sketches, practically all serious critic regard Giovanni Verga as the greatest of Italian writers of fiction; always excepting Manzoni.

London and New York: Longman, 1987. 8vo. 230 x 150 mm., [9 1/4 x 6 inches].  x, 357 pp.  Stiff paper wrappers; binding showing some wear, otherwise a good copy. Standard general survey of the Enlightenment period in Italian history "offering English speakers a richly detailed picture of Italy in the 18th century, and a much-needed synthesis of the ideas of the Italian Enlightenment. . .

New York: Broadway Books, 2002. 8vo.  210 x 140 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches].  [10], 242, [3] pp.  Original buff paper boards with red cloth spine, dust jacket.  Price sticker on rear wrapper of dust jacket, otherwise a very good copy. First American edition, originally published in Italian in 1995 and again in Milan in an English language edition in 2001.  "In the wry but affectionate tradition of Bill Bryson, Ciao, America! is a delightful look  at America through the eyes of a fiercely funny guest -  one of Italy's favorite authors who spent a year in Washington, D. C." .

New York: Simone & Schuster, 2016. Original cloth backed boards, dust jacket. 8vo. 308 pp.  Endpapers illustrated with a map of Venitian Lagoon.  First edition, fine in near dust jacket. By the author of Gorky Park.   The novel is set in Venice during the WWII and tells the story of the hunt for  a young Jewish women by local Facists and her protector, a local waterman who hides from local authorities.  "The Girl from Venice is a thriller, a mystery, and a retelling of Italian history that will take your breath away" (liner notes).

Paris: NRF Editons, 1930. 12mo.  160 x 120 mm., [6 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches].  63 pp.  Woodcut portrait of Klee by Georges Aubert and 47 black and white illustrations of the artists' work. Original printed wrappers. some soiling  a bit tattered at the spine, but sound.Third Edition.

Dresden: Verlag Ernst Arnold, 1923. 8vo.    250 x 190 mm., [9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches].  [vi], 22 pp.  Frontispiece portrait, 2 text illustrations and 32 plates in black and white, one in color.  Original printed boards.Number six in a series of monographs on European artists.