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3) Italy
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This title highlights major destinations within Italy and the people who shape the nation's culture. Readers will learn about the geography, wildlife, history, people, and economy of Italy, gaining an understanding of what life looks like in the country today.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Italy has been the center of the Roman Catholic Church for hundreds of years. Many of the country's traditions and holidays today are based on religious holy days. This interesting book describes national holidays in Italy that mark such events as religious festivals, as well as important historic events such as the country's independence. Other traditional celebrations featured include food festivals and family occasions"--
Author
Pub. Date
December, 2020.
Language
English
Description
How did a small, isolated city--with a population that never exceeded 100,000, even in its heyday--come to transform western civilization? Anthropologist Meredith Small examines the unique Venetian social structure that was key to their explosion of creativity and invention that ranged from the material to social. Whether it was boats or money, medicine or face cream, opera, semicolons, tiramisu or child-labor laws, these all originated in Venice...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was an era of dramatic political, religious, and cultural change in the Italian peninsula, witnessing major innovations in the visual arts, literature, music, and science. Princes of the Renaissance charts these developments in a sequence of eleven chapters, each of which is devoted to two or three princely characters with a cast of minor ones--from Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, to Cosimo I de' Medici,...
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