The Honoured Society: The Sicilian Mafia Observed
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Edition:Paperback978090787148429/08/2003From a Bookshelf nearby
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A superb narrative of the 'underside' of the Italian Renaissance: the Genoese and Neapolitans; the women writers, Jewish merchants, mercenaries, engineers, prostitutes, farmers and citizens ... read more
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Meditations on Rome and Venice by the celebrated American poet. The latest in the Ekphrasis series, the small paperbacks from David Zwirner.
Two Cities
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A neurotic Italian businessman obsessed by his own hypochondria, Zeno Cosini recounts his early years to his psychoanalyst Dr S. With a cigarette clutched permanently between his fingers, he... read more
Zeno’s Conscience
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The Beppina of the title was the author of a bundle of hand-written recipes found in an old Italian cookery: "a microcosm of the culinary taste of the Aretine upper middle-class during the B... read more