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  • Travels of Marco Polo (R)*

  • Travels of Marco Polo (R)* 

  • Marco Polo 
  • Arcturus Pub.* 
  • Pagine: 496 p.
    Testo in English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9781789500806 
  • In 1271 Marco Polo set out on a journey to China to meet the Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan. He returned with stories that would take a lifetime to tell. Featuring exotic creatures, strange customs, extraordinary legends, and political intrigues, The Travels of Marco Polo reveals the fantastical... 
  • STATO: OS - Ordinabile
  • € 12.50 
  • Conversations with Casanova (R)

  • Conversations with Casanova (R) 

  • Parker Derek 
  • Watts Publishing Group 
  • English
    Paerback 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9781786782298 
  • Imagined by one of the world's leading experts on Casanova, this fictionalised conversation presents the essential biography of history's most famous lover. A quiet chat with Casanova turns into a catalogue of racy encounters set in 18th-century Venice and other cities ... and we can even ask... 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 8.00 
  • Death In Venice And Other Stories

  • Death In Venice And Other Stories 

  • Thomans Mann 
  • Penguin Classics UK (NF) 
  • English
    336 pages
    111 x 179 mm
    Paperback 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780099541561 
  • Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful ageing writer, travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at dinner in his hotel, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy. Soon his days begin to revolve around seeing this boy and he is too distracted to pay attention to the ominous rumours that... 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 6.00 
  • A Brief History of Venice

  • A Brief History of Venice 

  • Elizabeth' 'Horodowich 
  • Robinson 
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
    Paperback ‏ : ‎ 250 pages 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9781845296117 
  • Venice grew out of the swamps of northern Italy to become one of the great mercantile and cultural centers of the world. 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 9.50 
  • Donna Leon - Doctored Evidence (R)

  • Donna Leon - Doctored Evidence (R) 

  • Donna Leon 
  • Hardback: 245 pages
    (2004) Language English
    130x210 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 000001252828 
  • Doctored Evidence is every bit as impressive as any previous outing for the urbane Commissario Brunetti we've encountered--and reading a Donna Leon novel is almost as good as a trip to Italy, so evocative is the ex-pat of her adoptive country. Not that Signor Berlusconi would necessarily approve of... 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 8.50 
  • Venice is a Fish: A Cultural Guide (R)

  • Venice is a Fish: A Cultural Guide (R) 

  • Tiziano Scarpa 
  • Profile Books 
  • English
    Hardcover
    176 pages 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9781846687280 
  • An award-winning Italian writer wanders the maze of tiny alleys, bridges, canals, and squares of Venice to explore the customs, history, lore, and secrets that only Venetians know, offering practical advice on everything from how to balance while standing on a gondola, to where lovers can find the... 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 14.50 
  • Virgins of Venice

  • Virgins of Venice 

  • Mary Laven 
  • Penguin Classics UK (NF) 
  • Hardcover: 320 pages
    Language English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780670896356 
  • Basing her vividly told story on scrupulously scholarly study of the Venetian archives, Laven provides the reader with astonishingly fresh, immediate insights into the fascinating reality of day-to-day convent existence...Mary Laven has produced an utterly engrossing narrative account of both the... 
  • STATO: OS - Ordinabile
  • € 8.00 
  • Not All Bastards are from Vienna

  • Not All Bastards are from Vienna 

  • Andrea Molesini 
  • Grove Press 
  • English
    Hardcover
    352 pages 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780802126306 
  • Andrea Molesini’s exquisite debut novel—winner of the prestigious Campiello Prize—portrays the depths of heroism and horror within a Northern Italian village toward the end of the Great War. While a family’s villa is requisitioned by enemy troops, they are forced to... 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 10.00 
  • Venice: Pure City

  • Venice: Pure City 

  • Peter Ackroyd 
  • Random House UK (NF) 
  • Paperback
    403 pages
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780307473790 
  • Peter Ackroyd at his most magical and magisterial a glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice, the ultimate city. The Venetians language and way of thinking set them aside from the rest of Italy. They are an island people, linked to the sea and to the tides rather than the... 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 14.00 
  • Adventurer

  • Adventurer 

  • Damrosch Leo 
  • Yale University Press 
  • Language ‏
    English
    Hardcover
    432 pages 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780300248289 
  • A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch “Fully succeeds in communicating that ‘vivid presentness,’ that ‘joyful eagerness’ for life, which is what keeps us reading Casanova—and reading... 
  • STATO: OS - Ordinabile
  • € 16.00 
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