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All about Italy 
SCPL resources for those interested in Italy. List developed in partnership with the Dante Alighieri Society of Santa Cruz County.
Nonfiction
Absolute monarchs: a history of the papacy
by Norwich, John Julius
262.13 NOR
Amarcord-- Marcella remembers: the remarkable life story of a woman who started out teaching science in a small town in Italy, but ended up teaching America how to cook Italian
by Hazan, Marcella
BIO HAZ
The ancient shore: dispatches from Naples
by Hazzard, Shirley
945.731 HAZ
Augustus: the life of Rome's first emperor
by Everitt, Anthony
BIO AUG
Benevolence and betrayal: five Italian Jewish families under fascism
by Stille, Alexander
940.5315 St5
Brunelleschi's dome: how a Renaissance genius reinvented architecture
by King, Ross
726.6.94 KIN
The Cambridge companion to Monteverdi
by Whenham (ed.), John
780.92 CAM
City of the soul: a walk in Rome
by Murray, William
914.5632 MUR
The civilization of the Renaissance in Italy: an essay
by Burckhardt, Jacob
945 B91
The complete operas of Puccini: a critical guide
by Osborne, Charles
782.1092 OSB
A concise history of Italy
by Duggan, Christopher
945 DUG
Corot in Italy: open-air painting and the classical-landscape tradition
by Galassi, Peter
OVERSIZE 759.4 GAL
D.H. Lawrence and Italy: Twilight in Italy: Sea and Sardinia. Etruscan places
by Lawrence, D. H.
914.5 L43
The divine comedy
by Dante Alighieri
851.1 DAN
Allen Mandelbaum , tr.
The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri. Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
851.1 DAN
John Sinclair, tr.
The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri. Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri
851.1 DAN
John Sinclair, tr.
The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio
by Dante Alighieri
851.1 DAN
John Sinclair, tr.
Divine comedy: the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri
OVERSIZE 851.15 D23
Lawrence Grant White, tr. Illustrations by Gustave Dore
The dream of Arcadia: American writers and artists in Italy, 1760- 1915.
by Brooks, Van Wyck
914.5 BRO
Essentials of classic Italian cooking
by Hazan, Marcella
641.5945 HAZ
The geometry of pasta
by Hildebrand, Caz
618.822 HIL
Giambattista Tiepolo
by Barcham, William L.
OVERSIZE 759.5 TE
Gomorrah
by Saviano, Roberto
364.106 SAV
Henry James on Italy : selections from Italian hours
by James, Henry
914.5049 JAM
Hidden Tuscany: discovering art, culture, and memories in a well-known region's unknown places
by Keahey, John
945.5 KEA
History of Italian Renaissance art: painting, sculpture, architecture
by Hartt, Frederick
OVERSIZE 709.45 HAR
A history of Venice
by Norwich, John Julius
945.31 NOR
The House of Medici, its rise and fall
by Hibbert, Christopher
945.5105 HIB
The inferno of Dante Alighieri
by Dante Alighieri
851.1 DAN
Ciaran Carson, tr.
The Inferno of Dante: a new verse translation
by Dante Alighieri
851.1 DAN
Robert Pinsky, tr.
By the Ionian Sea: notes of a ramble in Southern Italy
Series Title: Lost and found
by Gissing, George
914.570 GIS
Italia: portrait of a country throughout 60 years of photography
by Calvenzi (ed.), Giovanna
OVERSIZE 77900945 ITA
The Italian baker
by Field, Carol
OVERSIZE 641.71 FIE
Italian days
by Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti
914.5 H24
An Italian education: the further adventures of an expatriate in Verona
by Parks, Tim
914.5 P23
Italian neighbors, or, A lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona
by Parks, Tim
945.34 PAR
The Italian Renaissance: culture and society in Italy
by Burke, Peter
945.05 BUR
Italian villas and their gardens
by Wharton, Edith
728.84 W55
Italian ways: on and off the rails from Milan to Palermo
by Parks, Tim
385.2209 PAR
The Italians and the Holocaust: persecution, rescue, and survival
by Zuccotti, Susan
940.5315 Zu8
Italy and its discontents: family, civil society, state, 1980-2001
by Ginsborg, Paul
945.092 GIN
La divina commedia
by Dante Alighieri
450.8511 DAN
testo critico della Societa dantesca italiana
The librettist of Venice: the remarkable life of Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart's poet, Casanova's friend, and Italian opera's impresario in America
by Bolt, Ridney
BIO DA PONTE
Lidia cooks from the heart of Italy
by Bastianich, Lidia
641.5945 BAS
Love and war in the Apennines
by Newby, Eric
945 N42
Machiavelli in hell
by de Grazia, Sebastian
BIO MACHIAVELLI
Marcella cucina
by Hazan, Marcella
641.5945 HAZ
Marcella's Italian kitchen
by Hazan, Marcella
The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
by Calasso, Roberto
853 CAL
Medici money: banking, metaphysics, and art in fifteenth-century Florence
by Parks, Tim
332.1094 PAR
Michelangelo & the Pope's ceiling
by King, Ross
799.5 KIN
Molto Italiano: 327 simple italian recipes to cook at home
by Batalli, Mario
64105945 BAT
My two Italies
by Luzzi, Joseph
945 LUZ
The New Grove Italian baroque masters: Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, Cavalli, Corelli, A. Scarlatti, Vivaldi, D. Scarlatti
by Arnold, Denis
780.92 N42
The New Grove masters of Italian opera: Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini
by Gossett, Philip
780.1092 NEW
The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
by Leonardo, da Vinci
OVERSIZE 759.5 LEO
The Oxford history of Italy
by Holmes (ed), George
945 OXF
Paradise of cities : Venice in the 19th century
by Norwich, John Julius
945.31 NOR
The perfect house: a journey with the Renaissance master Andrea Palladio
by Rybczynski, Witold
709.92 RYB
On Persephone's island: a Sicilian journal
by Simeti, Mary Taylor
945.8092 SIM
A place to live: and other selected essays of Natalia Ginzburg
by Ginzburg, Natalia
854.912 GIN
Pompeii and the Roman villa: art and culture around the Bay of Naples
by Mattusch, Carol
OVERSIZE 709.377 MAT
Purgatorio
by Dante Alighieri
851.1 DAN
W. S. Merwin, tr.
The pursuit of Italy: a history of a land, its regions, and their people
by Gilmour, David
945 GIL
Rao's cookbook: over 100 years of Italian home cooking
by Pellegrino, Frank
641.5097 PEL
Regional foods of Northern Italy: recipes and remembrances
by De Blasi, Marlena
641.5945 DEB
The rise of Rome : the making of the world's greatest empire
by Everitt, Anthony
937.63 EVE
The Roman triumph
by Beard, Mary
394.5093 BEA
Sicilian carousel
by Durrell, Lawrence
914.58 D93
In Sicily
by Lewis, Norman
945.8 LEW
The stones of Venice
by Ruskin, John
OVERSIZE 720.9453 RUS
A thousand days in Venice: an unexpected romance
by De Blasi, Marlena
945.31 DEB
Travelers' Tales Italy: true stories of life on the road
by Calcagno (ed.), Anne
945 TRA
A traveller's history of Italy
by Judd (ed.), Denis
945 LIN
The travels of Marco Polo : the complete Yule-Cordier edition
by Polo, Marco
915.042 POL
including the unabridged third edition (1903) of Henry Yule's annotated translation, as revised by Henri Cordier, together with Cordier's later volume of notes and addenda (1920). 2 volumes.
Travels with a medieval queen
by Simeti, Mary Taylor
945.804 SIM
Trieste and the meaning of nowhere
by Morris, Jan
914.5393 MOR
Urban Italia : simple recipes and true stories from a life in food
by Carmellini, Andrew
OVERSIZE 641.5945 CAR
A valley in Italy: the many seasons of a villa in Umbria
by St Aubin de Teran, Lisa
945.65 SAI
Verdi: a biography
by Philips-Matz, Mary Jane
B V58
A vineyard in Tuscany: a wine lover's dream
by Mate, Ferenc
914.5504 MAT
Vita nuova
by Dante Alighieri
851.1 DAN
Mark Musa, tr.
Watermark
by Brodsky, Joseph
818.54 BRO
Why Italians love to talk about food
by Kostiukovich, Elena
641.594 KOS
Fiction & mysteries
The Bellini card: a novel
by Goodwin, Jason
MYSTERY GOO
Blood & beauty: the Borgias
by Dunant, Sarah
FICTION DUN
Carte blanche
Series Title: De Luca trilogy #1
by Lucarelli, Carlo
MYSTERY
De Luca trilogy #1
Contempt
by Moravia, Alberto
FICTION
Cosi fan tutti: an Aurelio Zen mystery
Series Title: Aurelio Zen
by Dibdin, Michael
MYSTERY
Cosmicomics
by Calvino, Italo
FICTION
The damned season
by Lucarelli, Carlo
MYSTERY
De Luca trilogy #2
The days of abandonment
by Ferrante, Elena
FICTION
Via delle Oche
by Lucarelli, Carlo
MYSTERY
De Luca trilogy #3
Invisible cities
by Calvino, Italo
FICTION
Little novels of Sicily: stories
by Verga, Giovanni
FICTION
The lost daughter
by Ferrante, Elena
FICTION FER
My brilliant friend. Book one: childhood, adolescence
by Ferrante, Elena
FICTION FER
The Prague cemetery
by Eco, Umberto
FICTION ECO
Shadows in bronze : a Marcus Didius Falco novel
Series Title: Marcus Didius Falco
by Davis, Lindsey
MYSTERY
The story of a new name
by Ferrante, Elena
FICTION FER
Tales of madness: a selection from Luigi Pirandello's Short stories for a year
by Pirandello, Luigi
FICTION
Those who leave and those who stay
by Ferrante, Elena
FICTION FER
Under the Tuscan sun: at home in Italy
by Mayes, Frances
945.5 MAY
Audiobooks
And then you die: an Aurelio Zen mystery
Series Title: Aurelio Zen
by Dibdin, Michael
LISTLIB DISC MYSTERY DIBDIN
audiobook
August heat
Series Title: Inspector Montalbano
by Camilleri, Andrea
LISTLIB DISC MYSTERY CAMILLERI
audiobook
Augustus: the life of Rome's first emperor
by Everitt, Anthony
LITLIB DISC BIO AUGUSTUS
audiobook
Blood & beauty: the Borgias
by Dunant, Sarah
LISTLIB DISC FICTION DUNANT
audiobook
The decline and fall of Rome
by Madden, Thomas F.
LISTLIB DISC 937.06 MAD
audiobook
The family
by Puzo, Mario
LISTLIB DISC FICTION PUZO
audiobook
The Inferno of Dante
by Dante Alighieri
LISTLIB DISC 851.1 DAN
audiobook. Robert Pinsky, tr.
Machiavelli: philosopher of power
by King, Ross
LISTLIB DISC BIO MACHIAVELLI
audiobook
In Michelangelo's shadow: the mystery of modern Italy
by Luzzi, Joseph
LISTLIB DISC 909.0982 LUZZI
audiobook
Palladian days: finding a new life in a Venetian country house
by Gable, Sally
LISTLIB DISC 945.32 GAB
audiobook
Poseidon's gold
Series Title: Marcus Didius Falco
by Davis, Lindsey
LISTLIB DISC MYSTERY DAVIS
audiobook
The Prague cemetery
by Eco, Umberto
LISTLIB DISC FICTION ECO
audiobook
A room with a view
by Forster, E. M.
LISTLIB DISC FICTION FORSTER
audiobook
A sea of troubles: a Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery
Series Title: Commissario Guido Brunetti
by Leon, Donna
LISTLIB DISC MYSTERY LEON
audiobook
Under the Tuscan sun
by Mayes, Frances
LISTLIB DISC 945.5 MAY
audiobook
Venice: pure city
by Ackroyd, Peter
LISTLIB DISC 945.311 ACK
audiobook
Films
Cabiria
by Fellini, Federico
VC DISC 791.43 NGHTS
Cinema Paradiso
by Tomatore, Giuseppe
VC DISC 791.43 CINEMA
Federico Fellini Intervista = Interview
by Fellini, Federico
VC DISC 791.43 INTERVISTA
Federico Fellini's La dolce vita
by Fellini, Federico
DVD 791.43 DOLCE
Fellini Satyricon
by Fellini, Federico
VC DISC 791.43 SATYRICON
Flowers of St. Francis
by Rossellini, Roberto
VC DISC 791.43 FLOWERS
The garden of the Finzi-Continis
by de Sica, Vittorio
DVD 791.43 GARDEN
Il gattopardo = The leopard
by Visconti, Luchino
VC DISC 791.43 LEOPARD
Il Postino = The Postman
by Radford (dir.), Michael
VC DISC 791.43 POSTINO
Il posto
by Olmi, Emanno
VC DISC 791.43 POSTO
Italy. Florence & Tuscany
Series Title: World odysseys
by Millenium III Communications
VC DISC 914.55 ITALY
La fanciulla del West : opera in three acts
by Puccini, Giacomo
VC DISC 782.1 FANCIULLA
Jonathan Miller, dir.
La Notte
by Antonioni, Michelangelo
VC DISC 791.43 NOTTE
La Strada
by Fellini, Federico
VC DISC 791.43 STRADA
Life is beautiful = La vita e bella
by Benigni, Roberto
VC DISC 791.43 LIFE
The life of Leonardo da Vinci
by Castellani, Renato
VC DISC 920.71 LIFE
Love and anarchy = Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero Stamattina alle 10 in via dei fiori nella nota casa di tolleranza
by Wertmuller, Lina
VC DISC 791.43 LOVE
Malena
by Tomatore, Giuseppe
VC DISC791.43 MALENA
The Medici, godfathers of the renaissance
by Hardy, Justin
VC DISC 945.5105 MEDICI
Rome. The complete first season
by Heller, Bruno
VC DISC 791.45 ROME
Salvatore Giuliano
by Rosi, Francesco
VC DISC 791.43 SALVATORE
Seven beauties = Pasqualino Settebellezze
by Wertmuller, Lina
VC DISC 791.43 SEVEN
The son's room = La stanza del figlio
by Moretti, Nanni
VC DISC 791.43 SON'S
Swept away = Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto
by Wertmuller, Lina
DVD 791.43 SWEPT
Tea with Mussolini
by Zeffirelli, Franco
VC DISC 791.43 TEA
Under the Tuscan sun
by Wells (dir.), Audrey
DVD 791.43 UNDER
Verdi
by Castellani, Renato
VC DISC 791.45 VERDI
Vespri siciliani : dramma in cinque atti
Series Title: Scala collection
by Verdi, Giuseppe
VC DISC 782.1 VESPRI
Music
Aida
by Verdi, Giuseppe
B VERD AID R22
Antiche danze ed arie per liuto = Ancient airs and dances ; Gli uccelli = The birds ; La boutique fantasque = The fantastic toyshop
by Respighi, Ottorino
EA RESP AAD M52
Concerto grosso op. VI no. 8 = Pour la Nuit de Noel ; Concerto grosso op. VI no. 7 ; Concerto grosso op. VI no. 5 ; Concerto grosso op. VI no. 6
by Corelli, Arcangelo
EC CORE CG S80
La Cenerentola
by Rossini, Gioacchino
B ROSS CEN B02
L'italiana in Algeri
by Rossini, Gioacchino
B ROSS IA B31
Vespro della Beata Vergine da concerto
by Monteverdi, Claudio
C MONTEV VBV I03
Kids books & media
Detectives in togas
by Winterfield, Henry
J FICTION
Dropping in on Renaissance artists
Series Title: Dropping in on--
by Stephens, Pam
J DVD 709.5 DROPPING
National Geographic investigates ancient Rome : archaeology unlocks the secrets of Rome's past
by Decker, Zilah
J 937.6 DEC
Starry messenger : a book depicting the life of a famous scientist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, physicist, Galileo Galilei
by Sis, Peter
J B GAL
Tracking trash : flotsam, jetsam, and the science of ocean motion
by Burns, Loree Griffin
J 551.462 BUR
What life was like at the rebirth of genius : Renaissance Italy, AD 1400-1550 /
Series Title: What life was like
by Tme-Life Books
J 945.5 WHA
Travel guides
Family guide Italy
Series Title: Eyewitness travel family guide
by Kindersley, Dorling
914.5704 FAM 2012
