Italia

Set in the heart of Tuscan wine country, Camilla Trinchieri's new mystery introduces Nico Doyle, a former NYPD homicide detective who's just looking for space to grieve when he finds himself pulled into a local murder investigation....

The Renaissance chronicles the history of Italy from1304 to 1576. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter the poets Petrarch and Boccaccio, the fathers of the Renaissance....

New Yorkers Paul and Darren have planned a winter holiday in Venice. But when their five-year marriage suddenly unravels, Paul endeavors to make the trip alone, despite his heartbreak and anxiety. Far outside his comfort zone, Paul has a mission: to see if he can be adventurous, fearless....

Years after Brunetti cleared her name, Flavia has returned to Venice and La Fenice to sing the lead in Tosca....

Glamorous and predatory, the Borgias fascinated and terrorized 15th-century Renaissance Italy, and Lucrezia Borgia, beloved daughter of the pope, was at the center of the dynasty's ambitions....

Marvellously atmospheric tale of strangers summoned to a grand but neglected villa on the Italian coast....

Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at its reputation for contagion, danger, and sexual temptation....

Rosanna Menici is just a girl when she meets Roberto Rossini, the man who will change her life....

Count Falier urges his Venetian son-in-law Guido Brunetti to investigate, and preferably intervene in, the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodriguez de Tejada, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Then Gonzalo literally drops dead on the street....

In the coming-of-age story, we follow a young Italian nobleman, Fabrizio Valserra, Marchesino del Dongo, on many adventures, including his experiences at the Battle of Waterloo, and romantic intrigues....

Guido Brunetti faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. He is drawn in innocently enough: two young American women have been badly injured in a boating accident, joyriding in the Laguna with two young Italians....

Best-selling classical historian Barry Strauss tells the story of three-and-a-half centuries of the Roman Empire through the lives of 10 of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine....

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We’ve created Italian Vocabulary Builder - 2222 Italian Phrases to Learn Italian and Grow Your Vocabulary - a powerful list of common Italian terms used in context that will vastly expand your vocabulary and boost your fluency in the “language of music” as it's called....

In these 24 lectures, Professor Bartlett traces the development of the Italian city-states of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, showing how the modern nation of Italy was forged out of the rivalries....

Master Italian with Learn Italian - Word Power 101....

In The Chocolatier, Jan Moran, best-selling author of the Summer Beach series and the historical novels, The Winemakers and Scent of Triumph, offers a testament to the resilience of love, along with insights into the fascinating world of chocolate making.

Cotton Malone is at Lake Como, Italy, on the trail of letters between Churchill and Mussolini that disappeared in 1945 and could rewrite history. But someone else seems to be after them, and when Malone obtains and then loses them, he enters into a hunt that attracts the Knights of Malta....

Set in Venice at the close of World War II, Across the River and into the Trees is the bittersweet story of a middle-aged American colonel, scarred by war and in failing health....