Italian Days

Italian Days
Author: Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2015-07-07
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0802190294

A “contagiously exuberant” celebration of Italian food, culture, and history that “will be the companion of visitors for years to come” (The Washington Post Book World). In an absorbing journey down the Italian peninsula, essayist, journalist, and fiction writer Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, offers a fascinating mixture of history, politics, folklore, food, architecture, arts, and literature, studded with local anecdotes and personal reflections. From fashionable Milan to historic Rome and primitive, brooding Calabria, Harrison reveals her country of origin in all its beauty, peculiarity, and glory. Italian Days is the story of a return home; of friends, family, and faith; and of the search for the good life that propels all of us on our journeys wherever we are. “Harrison’s wonderful journal will make you update your passport and dream of subletting your job, home, etc. . . . With Harrison, you never know with whom you’ll be lunching, or climbing down a ruin. You just know you want to be there.” —Glamour

A Day in the Life of Italy

A Day in the Life of Italy
Author:
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN:

Photographs taken throughout Italy show children, nurses, performers, fashion models, clergy, police, soldiers, farmers, and fishermen.

The Day of Battle

The Day of Battle
Author: Rick Atkinson
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 852
Release: 2008-09-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780805088618

In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy.

Forty Days in Italy Con La Mia Famiglia

Forty Days in Italy Con La Mia Famiglia
Author: Anthony Fasano
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2017-05-18
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780998998756

When people asked Anthony Fasano about his nationality, he always replied, "I'm Italian," without understanding the depths of what that meant. After 35 years of saying this, he decided that vague response wasn't good enough anymore. He decided he was going to learn everything he could about his Italian family roots.

Every Day in Tuscany

Every Day in Tuscany
Author: Frances Mayes
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2010
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0767929829

A recipe-complemented work continues the author's tribute to the region of Tuscany and its people, tracing the course of a year during which she renovated a thirteenth-century house in the mountains above Cortona.

Italian for Everyone Junior: 5 Words a Day

Italian for Everyone Junior: 5 Words a Day
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-07-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0744052920

Learn, test, and practice your Italian — five words a day! The colorful and illustrated workbook makes learning Italian fun! Each day, children learn five new words that they can listen to, write down and say aloud — an excellent foundation for your child’s journey to language learning. Discover the perfect introduction to Italian for children ages 6-9. It’s the ultimate Italian lesson book for kids! It includes: • Beautifully illustrated scenes that teach and test five words at a time. New vocabulary is practiced again at the end of each week in two pages of exercises. • Clever flaps on the jacket that cover the scene so your child can practice what they have just learned. • Uses the effective rote-learning method to teach new vocabulary. • Teaches a range of nouns and verbs that are useful in everyday life. Audio is available online and via a handy app to help with pronunciation. Help your child with Italian vocabulary Learning a foreign language is one of the best ways to develop your child’s cognitive and language abilities. What’s more, children gain insight into other cultures and their linguistic nuances. This language book covers Italian vocabulary, Italian pronunciation and makes learning the first Italian words easy and fun. Illustrations, exciting scenes and audio recordings allow your child to fully immerse themselves in their Italian language-learning journey! Italian for Everyone Junior 5 Words a Day encourages kids to copy the nouns and verbs related to each scene in the book, to test their knowledge by covering the words with jacket flaps, and learn one new Italian word every day. More titles in the series to explore The colorful, clear and comprehensive 5 Words a Day series from DK lays the foundations for your child's journey in learning a foreign language, at school or at home. Look out for other workbooks in the series! Help your child learn, practice, and understand 1,000 French words in French for Everyone Junior: 5 Words a Day.

Rome

Rome
Author: Andrea Carandini
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2018-04-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691180792

Rome's most important and controversial archaeologist shows why the myth of the city's founding isn't all myth Andrea Carandini's archaeological discoveries and controversial theories about ancient Rome have made international headlines over the past few decades. In this book, he presents his most important findings and ideas, including the argument that there really was a Romulus--a first king of Rome--who founded the city in the mid-eighth century BC, making it the world's first city-state, as well as its most influential. Rome: Day One makes a powerful and provocative case that Rome was established in a one-day ceremony, and that Rome's first day was also Western civilization's. Historians tell us that there is no more reason to believe that Rome was actually established by Romulus than there is to believe that he was suckled by a she-wolf. But Carandini, drawing on his own excavations as well as historical and literary sources, argues that the core of Rome's founding myth is not purely mythical. In this illustrated account, he makes the case that a king whose name might have been Romulus founded Rome one April 21st in the mid-eighth century BC, most likely in a ceremony in which a white bull and cow pulled a plow to trace the position of a wall marking the blessed soil of the new city. This ceremony establishing the Palatine Wall, which Carandini discovered, inaugurated the political life of a city that, through its later empire, would influence much of the world. Uncovering the birth of a city that gave birth to a world, Rome: Day One reveals as never before a truly epochal event.

Italian Days, Arabian Nights

Italian Days, Arabian Nights
Author: Vittorio Palumbo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2011-05
Genre: Fascism
ISBN: 9781937228002

Memoir set in Italy and Libya during World War II.

The Boston Italians

The Boston Italians
Author: Stephen Puleo
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 080705044X

In this lively and engaging history, Stephen Puleo tells the story of the Boston Italians from their earliest years, when a largely illiterate and impoverished people in a strange land recreated the bonds of village and region in the cramped quarters of the North End. Focusing on this first and crucial Italian enclave in Boston, Puleo describes the experience of Italian immigrants as they battled poverty, illiteracy, and prejudice; explains their transformation into Italian Americans during the Depression and World War II; and chronicles their rich history in Boston up to the present day.