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La passione : how Italy seduced the world  Cover Image Book Book

La passione : how Italy seduced the world / Dianne Hales.

Summary:

"A charming narrative and "pop historical" look into how Italy has shaped the Western world's most vibrant passions, from literature to love, music to art, food to wine"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780451499165 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 307 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Crown Archetype, [2019]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: confessions of an appassionata -- La passione italiana -- Swimming with the gods -- Warriors and lovers -- The greatest love story ever told -- The rise of romance -- Passion in bloom -- Sacred and profane -- Fatto a mano (made by hand) -- The flavors of Italy -- Grapes of passion -- Divine voices -- Cinema in their blood -- Passion on wheels -- The triumph of Italian style -- Seducing the world.
Subject: Civilization, Western > Italian influences.
Italy > Civilization.
Italy > Description and travel.
Italy > History.
Italy > Social life and customs.
Rome > Civilization.
Rome > History.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Dianne Hales is the author of La Passione; La Bella Lingua, a New York Times bestseller; Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered, translated into six languages; and more than forty trade and text books, including Just Like a Woman, Caring for the Mind and thirty editions of a leading college health textbook, An Invitation to Health. The President of Italy has awarded Dianne the highest recognition the government can bestow on a foreigner: honorary knighthood, with the title of Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity), for her contributions to promoting the Italian language.

Dianne Hales is the author of La Passione; La Bella Lingua, a New York Times bestseller; Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered, translated into six languages; and more than forty trade and text books, including Just Like a Woman, Caring for the Mind and thirty editions of a leading college health textbook, An Invitation to Health. The President of Italy has awarded Dianne the highest recognition the government can bestow on a foreigner: honorary knighthood, with the title of Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity), for her contributions to promoting the Italian language.


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