First Italian Reader

Reducere. The book consists of Elementary and Pre-intermediate courses with parallel Italian-English texts. The author maintains learners' motivation with fu...

Beginning students of Italian language and literature will welcome this bilingual anthology edited especially for their needs. Ranging from the fou...

Reducere. The Italian language is spoken mostly in Italy, but also in various other countries as well. People who live in parts of Switzerland, Croatia, Slov...

Reducere. Charles S. Singleton's edition of the Divine Comedy, of which this is the first part, provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs...

This anthology -- the first general-reader collection of writing by Italian American authors -- is part manifesto, part Sunday dinner. A gathering ...

Reducere. DescriptionAn exploration of applicable words and phrases, nouns, and verbs utilizing each letter of the alphabet.With a fun and easily accessible ...

Reducere. This book starts the reader on a journey through time, with a short history of folding knives, leading to the evolution of the first switchblade. P...

A prize-winning modern masterpiece from the late Italian author of Pereira Maintains, this won the Prix Medicis Etanger, and was first published in...

Reducere. Conquistador Voices, a two-volume work by Kevin H. Siepel, is intended for the general reader. The book presents the history of the Spanish Conques...

Reducere. Lilith is a Goddess and mythological figure who is misunderstood. She is reputed to be Adam's first wife before Eve, and she represents the first p...

Essays by a provocative Italian philosopher on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains.The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has al...

Reducere. Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy -- a rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during scor...

Reducere. Reconstructing the activity of the "Tribunal of the Faith" in Italy during the period 1400-1600, this compelling book analyzes the ideology of its ...

A fresh translation of The New Science, with detailed footnotes that will help both the scholar and the new reader navigate Vico's masterpieceThe N...

Gaines's Cryptanalysis (formerly published as Elementary Cryptanalysis) is a standard elementary and intermediate text for persons seriously intere...

Reducere. In A Time to Seek, Susan Pohlman invites the reader on a spiritual journey through Florence, Italy, then westward along the coast of the Italian Ri...

These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the prima...

Reducere. Conquistador Voices, a two-volume work by Kevin H. Siepel, is intended for the general reader. The book presents the history of the Spanish Conques...

Reducere. The History of Albania by Tajar Zavalani (1903-1966) is the first full-length history of Albania to have been written in English. It covers the per...

DescriptionNick Carnavale is a wide-eyed, innocent young man growing up in Buffalo's working-class Italian West Side. As he is about to start high ...

Reducere. An advisor to Italian publishing houses, a translator of Freud and Jung, a friend of Montale and Calvino, Roberto Bazlen was nothing if not a liter...

DescriptionOne of the most famous books in the world, the "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, read by every Renaissance intellectual and referred to in stu...

Reducere. It was Italian immigrants who first carried bottles of Fernet-Branca to the United States in their suitcases, introducing the distinctly bitter dig...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Turin born Guido Gozzano was the first and finest representative of the Crepuscolari, the poets of the twilight. Before his tragical...

Reducere. ". . . a tonic for any reader who loves Italy, fine art and adventure." --Adriana Trigiani, Author of Tony's Wife We all have dreams and sometimes ...

Reducere. ". . . a tonic for any reader who loves Italy, fine art and adventure." --Adriana Trigiani, Author of Tony's WifeWe all have dreams and sometimes t...