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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

The art and life of Pompeii and Herculaneum
by Grant, Michael
OVERSIZE 709.012 GRA

Art treasures of the Uffizi and Pitti.
by Rossi, Filippo
OVERSIZE 759.5 R73

Artists of the Renaissance
by Vasari, Giorgio
709.22 V44

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

Dante: a collection of critical essays
by Freccero, John
851.15 F87

D.H. Lawrence and Italy: Twilight in Italy: Sea and Sardinia. Etruscan places
by Lawrence, D. H.
914.5 L43

Dictionary of Italian painting
by Dictionary
R 759.5 D56

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

Giuseppe Arcimboldo
by Kriegeskorte, Werner
OVERSIZE 759.5 Ar2

Gomorrah
by Saviano, Roberto
364.106 SAV

Greek & Roman art
by Ruskin, Ariane
709.38 R89

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

Latin for all occasions
by Beard, Henry
478.3 BEA

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

Lives of the most eminent painters
by Vasari, Giorgio
R 709.2 VAS

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

In Maremma: life and a house in southern Tuscany
by Leavitt, David
940.57 LEA

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

Provisional conclusions: a selection of the poetry of Eugenio Montale
by Montale, Eugenio
851 M76

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 Renaissance in Italy: painting, sculpture, architecture
by Keller, Harald
OVERSIZE 709.24 K28

Renaissance in Italy: the fine arts.
by Symonds, John Addington
709.024 Sy6

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 Sistine Chapel : a glorious restoration
by Pietrangeli, Carlo
OVERSIZE 759.5 CAP

The stones of Florence
by McCarthy, Mary
759.5 M12

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.