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The house of Gucci : a sensational story of murder, madness, glamour, and greed / by Forden, Sara Gay,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Chronicles the rollercoaster ride of Maurizio Gucci, from Guccio Gucci's leather shop in the early 1900s to the Investscorp takeover of the multimillion dollar corporation in 1993 and Maurizio's 1995 murder by his ex-wife.
Subjects: Biographies.; Gucci, Maurizio, 1948-1995.; Gucci (Firm); Businessmen; Clothing trade; Trials (Murder);

Bitter remedy / by Fitzgerald, Conor.;
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Blume, Alec (Fictitious character); Murder; Police;

20 fun facts about the Colosseum / by Nelson, Drew,1986-;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index."Levels: GR: M; DRA: 28"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Colosseum (Rome, Italy);
© 2014., Gareth Stevens Pub.,

The Borgias : power and fortune / by Strathern, Paul,1940-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family -- a world of saints, corrupt popes, and depraved princes and poisoners -- set against the golden age of the Italian Renaissance"--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Biographies.; Borgia family.; Nobility; Renaissance;

A refiner's fire / by Leon, Donna,author.;
"Around one a.m. on an early spring morning, two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice's squares. Commissario Claudia Griffoni, on duty that night, perhaps ill-advisedly walks the last of the boys home because his father, Dario Monforte, failed to pick him up at the Questura. Coincidentally, Guido Brunetti is asked by a wealthy friend of Vice-Questore Patta to vet Monforte for a job, triggering Brunetti's memory that twenty years earlier Monforte had been publicly celebrated as the hero of a devastating bombing of the Italian military compound in Iraq. Yet Monforte had never been awarded a medal either by the Carabinieri, his service branch, or by the Italian government. That seeming contradiction, and the brutal attack on one of Brunetti's colleagues, Enzo Bocchese, by a possible gang member, concentrate Brunetti's attentions. Surprisingly empowered by Patta, supported by Signorina Elettra's extraordinary research abilities and by his wife, Paola's, empathy, Brunetti, with Griffoni, gradually discovers the sordid hypocrisy surrounding Monforte's past, culminating in a fiery meeting of two gangs and a final opportunity for redemption."--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Brunetti, Guido (Fictitious character); Gangs; Police;

Hotel Portofino. [videorecording] / by Binder, Louisa,actor.; Carling, Elizabeth,1967-actor.; Chancellor, Anna,actor.; Dench, Oliver,1992-actor.; Esposito, Pasquale,1963-actor.; Fasano, Rocco,1993-actor.; Frazer, Lily,1991-actor.; James, Adam,actor.; King, Imogen,1995-actor.; McElhone, Natascha,1969-actor.; Morris, Olivia,actor.; Pecci, Daniele,actor.; Richelmy, Lorenzo,1990-actor.; Scott-Michael, Claude,actor.; Umbers, Mark,actor.; Wimpenny, Adam,television director.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),production company.;
Natascha McElhone, Lucy Akhurst, Louisa Binder, Elizabeth Carling, Oliver Dench, Pasquale Esposito, Rocco Fasano, Lily Frazer, Adam James, Anna Chancellor.It is the summer of 1927 and Bella Ainsworth is still devoting her considerable energies to the Hotel Portofino, which has overcome its early troubles and is starting to prosper.14A.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; 5.1 surround sound.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Historical television programs.; British; Families; Hotels; Nineteen twenties;
For private home use only.

The bitter taste of murder / by Trinchieri, Camilla,author.;
"The follow-up to Murder in Chianti finds ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle recruited by Italian authorities to investigate the murder of a prominent wine critic. One year after moving to his late wife's Tuscan hometown of Gravigna, Nico Doyle has fully settled into life there, seeing friends in the course of daily errands and helping to serve and test recipes at his in-laws' restaurant. But the town is shaken up by the arrival of wine critic Michele Mantelli in his flashy Jaguar. Mantelli holds his influential culinary magazine and blog over Gravigna's vintners and restaurateurs (and, to Maresciallo Perillo's dismay, the traffic laws). He has either impressed or ticked off most of Gravigna's residents-but most of all Nico's landlord, Aldo Ferri, whose vineyard Mantelli seems intent on ruining. Mantelli's lavish, larger-than-life, and often vindictive personality has made him many enemies, and when he is poisoned, Perillo has a headache of a high-profile murder on his hands-and once again turns to Nico for help"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Ex-police officers; Murder; Restaurants; Italian Americans;

Tuscan daughter : a novel / by Rochon, Lisa,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.'Tuscan Daughter' is a novel of beauty and inspiration set in Renaissance Florence about a young and defiant female artist searching for her mother. Lisa Rochon is an award-winning architecture critic and cultural commentator. She is the two-time winner of the National Newspaper Awards for her "City Space" column in the Globe and Mail, and the recipient of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's President's Award for Architectural Journalism. She lives in Toronto, ON. A Dewey Diva Pick.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Women artists; Families; Renaissance;

Every day in Tuscany : seasons of an Italian life / by Mayes, Frances.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Mayes, Frances.; Americans;
© c2010., Broadway Books,

Beneath a scarlet sky : a novel / by Sullivan, Mark T.,author.;
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Lella, Giuseppe; World War, 1939-1945;

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