Bella cannot bring herself to leave their home among the vines or abandon the children she has sworn to protect. We thank Ornella for her indefatigable work providing a key service to the community, including an amazing series of popular events with book authors - which we will greatly miss. It is where I met some wonderful Italian authors, the intimate space making it easy to have conversations. you made, excluding any direct use by us outside the limits indicated on the basis of your express wish.

Literature is a mirror and an image of reality and represents it like a filter which preserves the humours, feelings and sentiments of a culture and diffuses it into its immediate surroundings. Pepi argues that there is an innate physical and moral inequality in men, and in consequence an inequality in their rights and duties. The only edition with the main text printed entirely in Gothic type of four rare editions published about the same time without date and printer.

We have decided to sell a part of our collection, and we are ready to offer incunables, manuscripts and volumes dated back to the 1500s. She spends as much time as she can in a village in Tuscany, the inspiration for her fictional debut novel The Tears of Monterini. This is why we can truly consider the Italian library at 39 Belgrave Square as a s pecial place, an oasis in the heart of London on which the written testaments of the vicissitudes, lives and events of the People of Italy have been accumulated over many years – a small treasure which we are very happy to safeguard.

You will find projects related to reading such as book reviews and recommendations, short stories, interactive activities, and free resources. First edition of this splendidly illustrated book on horse breeding, one of few such books to be published in four languages.

Amanda Weinberg studied Modern Languages at the University of East Anglia, followed by a PGCE at King's College London. Many WWII historical novels are described as "heartbreaking" but the description proves to be hyperbolic.

Having spent many holidays in Italy, I found the descriptions of the hilltop villages so evocative of Tuscany that I felt I was there. We are specialists in early printed books, first editions, popular prints and decorated papers; Latin America, bibliography, English, French and Spanish books. This is not an easy story to read due to the graphic scenes depicted of suffering and death; yet there are also tremendously enchanting scenes of the countryside of Italy, the towns, the beaches, the flowers; even though there is war, there is beauty to be found. Rare first edition in Italian, and the first treatise on demonology to be printed in the Italian language.Hi there, I enjoyed this interesting fascinating story book very much, I loved learning more about the Jewish ways l loved Amanda's verb expressions of words she used, it made it more exciting and gave it creative power to the story. I have read many, many WWII novels but this one brings the reader into the very depths of war and how it affects the citizens in an occupied country. Our rich and varied offer is constantly evolving, in fact we offer about 1,000 new items every month; We therefore invite you to visit us frequently and to include us among your favorite sellers so as to always be updated on news and promotions! I hadn't previously known very much about Italy's history during the period of Mussolini's rise to power and then the German occupation so I am a bit wiser for having read this book.

Originally published in 1746-47, it was here expanded with notes and includes a new dedication and a revised life of the author. Set during the final months of the First Crusade, the plot follows the adventures of the Christian leader Godfrey of Bouillon, intertwined with the romantic encounters between Christians a. First edition, one of 150 copies of this finely printed photographic reproduction of Traquair's illuminated manuscript of Dante's Vita Nuova. Since 2005, adapting to the epochal changes that have also involved our sector, we have begun to offer online our catalogs. Published about a week after the US edition, with revisions to Pound's introduction and the translations, the British edition is scarce, a large portion of the print run having been destroyed by a fire at the binders.Amanda is a graduate of the UEA and Guardian Course in Creative Writing and has representation with the literary agency Curtis Brown. As the storm clouds of war gather, everyone will have to make a heart-breaking choice to save the lives of those they love. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The first edition was published in Rome in 1512 and is now exceedingly rare, WorldCat locating only the British Library copy, and the copy sold in 1996 the only appearance at auction in modern times. I don't think I have read another World War II novel that brings the reader into the very depths of war on a very personal basis.