Italian History

The History of Italy and the Italians By Rivaltino Rivalta Infinity Publishing.com Paperback (76 pages) List Price: $9.95* Lowest New Price: $5.86* Lowest Used Price: $7.48* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 08:41 Pacific 3 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here

Military History of Italy: Italian Unification, Cartagena, Colombia, War of the Polish Succession, Battle of Marengo Books LLC Paperback (500 pages) List Price: $14.14* Lowest New Price: $14.14* Lowest Used Price: $15.26* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 08:41 Pacific 3 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Italian Unification, Cartagena, Colombia, War of the Polish Succession, Battle of Marengo, Military History of Italy During World War Ii, Military History of Italy, Regia Marina, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Rescue of Giuliana Sgrena, Regia Aeronautica, March of the Iron Will, Fort Lawton Riot, 133 Armoured Division Littorio, Rab Concentration Camp, Italy in World War I, Corpo Truppe Volontarie, Wars in Lombardy, Eritrean Ascari, War of the Mantuan Succession, Battle of San Pietro, Battle of Guastalla, Corpo Aereo Italiano, Battle of Vlora, Italian Order of Battle Second Italo-Abyssinian War, Siege of Capua, War of Ferrara, Betasom, Anti-Communist Volunteer Militia, Alpine Brigade Tridentina, 4 Alpine Division Cuneense, Italian Africa Police, Friuli Air Assault Brigade, 185 Airborne Division Folgore, Battle of Bitonto, Battle of Tagliacozzo, Etruscan Military History, Garibaldi Bersaglieri Brigade, Field Mill, Royal Italian Army, 4 Mountain Infantry Division Livorno, Alpine Brigade Cadore, 1 Alpine Division Taurinense, Gedik Ahmed Pasha, 131 Armoured Division Centauro, Redshirts, Italian Legione Redenta, Ruspoli Regiment, French Attack on the Vaudois, Siege of Genoa, Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana, 26 Mountain Infantry Division Assietta, 27 Motorised Division Brescia, 5 Alpine Division Pusteria, Alpine Brigade Orobica, Sassari Mechanized Brigade, 4 Infantry Division Littorio, Army Group Liguria, Pinerolo Armored Brigade, 2nd Army, 3 Alpine Division Julia, Siege of Capua, Filippo Negroli, Pozzuolo Del Friuli Cavalry Brigade, Dubats, 2 Alpine Division Tridentina, Granatieri Di Sardegna Mechanized Brigade, Aosta Mechanized Brigade, 2003 Nasiriyah Bombing, Battle of Ostia, Italian Libyan Colonial Division, Savari, 1st Blackshirt Division, Bands, 7th Blackshirt Division, 202 Coastal Divis...

The Borgias By Marion Johnson Henry Holt & Co Hardcover (232 pages) List Price: $7.98* Lowest Used Price: $9.90* *(As of 08:41 Pacific 3 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: The name Borgia is synonymous with the political corruption, greed, incest, and murder that was rife in Renaissance Italy. Rodrigo Borgia-Pope Alexander VI-the first man to have clearly bought himself the papacy, and two of his infamous illegitimate children-Cesare and Lucrezia-were the three central figures of the Borgia dynasty, notorious for seizing power, wealth, land, and titles through bribery, marriage, and murder. Marion Johnson plots the dynasty's dramatic rise from its beginnings in Spain to its occupation of the highest position in Renaissance society, examining how far the myth of the Borgias is borne out by historical facts. Behind the gaudy horrors, she concludes, lie people of great talent and achievement, possessors, even, of moderate virtues.

Jewish Italian History: History of the Jews in Italy, Italian Jews, History of the Jews in Calabria, Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Diamante Citron Books LLC Paperback (108 pages) List Price: $14.14* Lowest New Price: $12.73* Lowest Used Price: $15.19* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 08:41 Pacific 3 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: History of the Jews in Italy, Italian Jews, History of the Jews in Calabria, Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Diamante Citron, Cum Nimis Absurdum, Rothschild Banking Family of Naples, La Giudecca, Venetian Ghetto, Isaiah Di Trani, Isaiah Di Trani the Younger, Expulsion of the Jews From Sicily, Ferrara Bible, Selvino Children, Padua Synagogue, Simone Luzzatto, Ferrara Synagogue, Abraham Garton, History of the Jews in San Marino, Neofiti. Excerpt: Abraham Garton was a Jewish printer who printed the first dated Hebrew book in Europe in 1475. Unfortunately, very little is known about the personal life of Abraham ben Garton. Most scholars believe he was born in Spain , and emigrated to Calabria , Italy prior to the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. Many other Spanish Sephardim also emigrated to Calabria following the expulsion.Garton's first book was Rashi 's commentary on the written Torah . This was printed in the city of Reggio di Calabria , in February, 1475. Although Garton's book is the first dated printed edition, the work is neither the first edition of Rashi's commentary, nor the first book to be printed in Hebrew. Between 1469 and 1472 three brothers, Obadiah, Menasseh, and Benjamin of Rome, were active as the first Hebrew typographers. Six works are positively known to have come off their press, among which was the first, albeit undated edition of Rashi's commentary. Nonetheless, the 1475 edition Abraham Garton created and employed, for the first time, a typeface based on a Sephardic semicursive hand. It was this same style of typeface that a few years later, when commentary and text were incorporated onto one page, would be used to distinguish Rabbinic commentary from the text proper. Ultimately, this typeface would be known as Rashi script . References (URLs online) A hype...

Jews and Judaism in Italy: Italian Jews, History of the Jews in Calabria, Jewish Community of Livorno, Judeo-Italian Languages Books LLC Paperback (78 pages) List Price: $14.14* Lowest New Price: $14.14* Lowest Used Price: $15.22* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 08:41 Pacific 3 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Italian Jews, History of the Jews in Calabria, Jewish Community of Livorno, Judeo-Italian Languages, Jewish Community of Trieste, Jewish Community of Turin, Jewish Community of Venice, La Giudecca, Expulsion of the Jews From Sicily, Jewish Community of Naples, History of the Jews in Sicily, Judeo-Latin. Excerpt: The Expulsion of the Jews from Sicily began in 1493 when the Spanish Inquisition reached the island of Sicily and its Jewish population of more than 30,000 Jews.History of the Jews of Sicily and the Spanish Inquisition History of the Sicilian Jews At the time of Expulsion, there had been Jewish activity in Sicily for some 1555 years, dating back to early Roman times, and they were relatively untroubled on the island until the acceptance of the Crown of Aragon in Sicily in 1412. A great number of Jews had reached Sicily after Pompey 's 63 BC sacking of Jerusalem , and additionally by Roman Proconsul Crassus, who is traditionally said to have sold more than 30,000 Jewish slaves on the island.After the enslavement under Roman rule, Jews in Sicily eventually assimilated into society, working in professions as wide-ranged as philosophy, medicine, artisanal pursuits, and farming.The exact number of Jews in Sicily at the time of expulsion is not certain, However, some have put the number of Jewish refugees at 36,000. Also, in 1492, it is known the Jewish populations of Palermo , Messina and several other cities were considerable, and that there were Giudeccas , or Jewish settlements, in over 50 places in Sicily, ranging in anywhere population from 350 to 5000. At their height, Jewish Sicilians probably constituted from five to eight percent of the island's population. History of the Spanish Inquisition and Jewish Expulsion The maximum extent of the Crown of Aragon, including S...

The Hisotry of Italy: The Classic History of the Italian Renaissance in its first translation in English By Francesco Guicciardini The Macmillan Company Hardcover (457 pages) Lowest Used Price: $19.93* *(As of 08:41 Pacific 3 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here