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  • STARTING FROM SCRATCH
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    STARTING FROM SCRATCH
    ANDREA MARCOLONGO
    With an "inimitable voice combined with flawless erudition," this new analysis of the Aeneid "illuminates its subject with a modern light" ( Le Monde). From the bestselling author of The Ingenious Language comes a meditation on rebuilding, recovery, and renewal that is also a fascinating portrait of antiquity's most complex and surprisingly modern hero. In times of peace and pr...

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  • MARY MAGDALENE
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    MARY MAGDALENE
    ADRIANA VALERIO
    "Brilliant . . . Essential reading for anyone who cares about Church history and gender equality. . . . speaks to our times with impressive relevance." — Reading in Translation From one of Italy's most renowned historians of religion, an exciting new portrait of one of Christianity's most complex—and most misunderstood—figures: Mary Magdalene Jesus' favorite and most devoted di...

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  • A SHORT HISTORY OF SPAGHETTI WITH TOMATO SAUCE
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    A SHORT HISTORY OF SPAGHETTI WITH TOMATO SAUCE
    MASSIMO MONTANARI
    A surprisingly wide-ranging journey into the story of this beloved dish and "an utterly fascinating discourse on food history" ( The Daily Beast). Intellectually engaging and deliciously readable, this is a stereotype-defying history of how one of the most recognizable symbols of Italian cuisine and national identity is the product of centuries of encounters, dialogue, and exch...

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  • WHAT IS PROGRESS
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    WHAT IS PROGRESS
    ALDO SCHIAVONE
    "Historian Schiavone mixes philosophy, politics, and anthropology in this stimulating inquiry into the 'paradigm of progress.'" — Publishers Weekly Today, many believe that progress is a word to be avoided, a relic from a past, the dangerous product of an era of intellectual naivety that would be best forgotten. Yet, the idea of progress is rooted in a human impulse that is bot...

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  • ATLANTIS
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    ATLANTIS
    CARLO PIANO / RENZO PIANO
    The renowned architect and his son sail from Genoa in search of Atlantis in this "intimate and insightful chronicle of exploration and revelation" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Renowned architect Renzo Piano—whose credits include the New Whitney Museum, the Pompidou Center, the New York Times Building, and others—and his son Carlo, a well-regarded journalist, set sail from...

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  • THE NIGHT IN GETHSEMANE
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    THE NIGHT IN GETHSEMANE
    MASSIMO RECALCATI
    The highly regarded Italian philosopher and psychoanalyst offers "a brilliant, stirring analysis" on suffering, doubt, and the potential for renewal ( La Stampa, IT). For Massimo Recalcati, Jesus's reckoning in the Garden of Gethsemane is at once an instance of human weakness and an encounter with the Divine. It is the story where the Divine and the Human meet most forcefully, ...

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  • A NEW SUBLIME
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    A NEW SUBLIME
    PIERO BOITANI
    In a book "as bewitching and entertaining as a novel" a renowned Italian literary critic "uncovers the unexpected, extraordinary modernity of the classics" (Piero Dorfles). In A New Sublime, literary critic Piero Boitani reveals the timeless beauty and wisdom of ancient literature, highlighting its profound and surprising connections to the present. Ranging from Homer to Tacitu...

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  • BEREZINA
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    BEREZINA
    SYLVAIN TESSON
    "Hilarious, introspective, contemplative, professorial . . . the tale of a historical motorcycle tour quite unlike most any you will ever read." — Ultimate Motorcycling Lire Magazine Best Travel Book Take four friends, put them on two Ural motorcycles (complete with sidecars), send them off on a 2,500-mile odyssey retracing history's most famous retreat, add what some might con...

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  • THE INGENIOUS LANGUAGE
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    THE INGENIOUS LANGUAGE
    ANDREA MARCOLONGO
    An Italian journalist pleads her case for learning ancient Greek in modern times. For word nerds, language loons, and grammar geeks, an impassioned and informative literary leap into the wonders of the Greek language. Here are nine ways Greek can transform your relationship to time and to those around you, nine reflections on the language of Sappho, Plato, and Thucydides, and i...

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  • OUR EUROPE
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    OUR EUROPE
    LAURENT GAUDÉ
    This "urgent, epic" poem exploring the history of Europe "encourages both lucidity and humility, to try and save what beauty is left in the world" ( Les Echos, FR). "For some time now, Europe seems to have forgotten it is the daughter of epics and utopia. It has been drained by its inability to remind its citizens of this. Too distant, disembodied, the concept often arouses not...

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  • OUT OF ITALY
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    OUT OF ITALY
    FERNAND BRAUDEL
    From the author of Memory and the Mediterranean, a comprehensive history of the Italian city states from 1450 to 1650. In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, "Italy" exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean. Its cultural, ec...

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  • A SUMMER WITH MONTAIGNE
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    A SUMMER WITH MONTAIGNE
    ANTOINE COMPAGNON
    "Brings the man to life and shows his questions, ideas, and solutions to be every bit as relevant as they were in the 16th century." — New York Journal of Books Michel de Montaigne embodies the humanist ideal—curious, measured, contemplative yet not unworldly, witty, free of prejudice, and urbane. But what does this French Renaissance philosopher have to tell us about how to th...

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